XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net   
      
   So it is writ by Alice J. ,   
   so mote it be.   
   > Seems to me, we should *all* work together, to make our router defaults:   
      
   > SSID = DEFAULT_nomap   
   > MAC  = DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE   
   > Passphrase = as strong and as unique as we can make it   
      
   > Hypothetically, as a thought experiment, if we all did that above,   
   > would it work?   
      
   I'd like to know if appending "_nomap" to the SSID would do   
   anything more than lengthen the SSID. Is this supposed to be   
   honored by everyone? That never worked for X-No-Archive. Besides   
   which, the SSID is no more of a security breach than the number   
   on the mailbox at the end of your driveway.   
      
   No, MACs should be globally unique. Spoofing a computers MAC by   
   the router it is connected to might not cause a collision, but if   
   everyone reported the same MAC there would be nothing but   
   collisions and hilarity would ensue.   
      
   As for the pass-phrase, yes it should be at least as strong as   
   needed in every case where a pass-phrase/password is used.   
      
   Mike "an algorithm applied to the id isn't strong" Yetto   
   --   
   "I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to   
   have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself   
   now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the   
   ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before   
   me."   
    - Sir Isaac Newton   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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