{"id":546,"date":"2012-11-13T08:54:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=546"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:45:14","slug":"wireless-security-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2012\/11\/13\/wireless-security-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless security.. right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a few years I resisted the temptation of setting up a wireless network at home. Story after story suggested that WiFi is a crappy, unstable, and awfully insecure set of technologies. Finally though things seemed to have settled down, and with WPA2 the wardriving stories ended.<\/p>\n<p>So a couple of years ago I went against my instinct and embraced the convenience of wireless networks. I thought I had secure setups, using WPA2 only, but recently I found out this is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>I switched away from that lame ISP called Rogers to ElectronicBox (a DSL provider), and I returned the wireless router to Rogers. To replace it I bought a new router and set up a new network with the same SSID and password.<\/p>\n<p>What a shock I got when every WiFi device in the house with the exception of my Slackware laptop happily connected to the new hotspot! That basically means that if someone else set up a wireless router with the same SSID &#8211; all my devices would happily send my password to that hotspot. Yay! Even if the password is hashed &#8211; that is some scary shit.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to spend hours reading about Wireless security again, and require PSKes or something to avoid such nonsense. Piece of shit stupid crappy garbage technology..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a few years I resisted the temptation of setting up a wireless network at home. Story after story suggested that WiFi is a crappy, unstable, and awfully insecure set of technologies. Finally though things seemed to have settled down, and with WPA2 the wardriving stories ended. So a couple of years ago I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-546","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}