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   unruh to Moe Trin   
   Re: OT: Off-Topic   
   10 Jun 12 00:26:55   
   
   From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-06-10, Moe Trin  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   >, Adam wrote:   
   >   
   >>That's a "Personal (pre-shared) Key" with WPA2 Pre-Authentication   
   >>enabled and a random string for the SSID (wireless network name).   
   >>Unless I'm misunderstanding something (which is certainly possible),   
   >>that's about as secure as I can reasonably get.   
   >   
   > Jeff Liebermann suggested that if you really want anonymity, then use   
   > "Linksys" or "default" as your SSID.  Nobody will ever find you among   
   > the thousands of other routers where the owner hasn't bothered to   
   > change the SSID and probably the router password.  Think of it as   
   > hiding among the herd.   
      
   Pretty useless. When they come near your house they see Linksys. Do you   
   really thing that makes it that hard to figure out that ssid is yours?   
      
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