![]() ![]() To assume everyone who catches a glimpse of your password somehow, knows how to scan your wireless packets and spoof your mac address is pure ignorance born from arrogance. Would you really not lock the door!?! Thats how ridiculous it sounds to me. Most people hide keys under mats or flower pots or outside their house!!! I mean do some of these "experts" consider locking the front door of their house a false sense of security since anyone can just break through a glass window? hahaha. ![]() And all the normal computer users, the majority of society, are stuck in the middle and fed disinformation. On one hand we got the government who wants us vulnerable for obvious reasons, and on the other side all these cyber thiefs and other malicious peeping tom nerds who want us vulnerable simply for their entertainment. I think that, along with the so called "know your threat model" nonsense copout rhetoric that is repeated so much, is why the computer security industry is in the state its in. Thats why there is no such thing as defensive security anymore, its just not as entertaning as offensive "security". "Hackers just gonna hack" as the qubes-os developer puts it. The industry is failing so hard more and more every year that I take what the so called "security experts" say with a grain of salt. No activity lights on the router also annoy me. And I can also concurr that the active and inactive connections is so inaccurate it can basically be considered void. ![]() I wish Verizon would understand that no matter how good their network may be if the router they provide is sub-standard then their network is sub-standard. Thus only leads me to think that the product was not well tested/stressed before being made availaible. In my experience with this feature it was clear that it was poorly tested, if tested at all, especially on the 2.4GHz bandwidth.Īdditionally I see the router reporting that connections are active when they are not and expired when they are clearly in use and working. Additionally Verizon chose to include this feature so it should work. While a knowledgeable hacker with time and interest can spoof a MAC address without much difficulty most folks looking for "free wifi" in your neighborhood are generally not knowledgeable hackers. While MAC address filtering is not fool proof (I personally do not know of any security scheme that is) it does add yet another layer of security that a hacker must work around. ![]()
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