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<blockquote data-quote="noladevildog" data-source="post: 332760" data-attributes="member: 33054"><p>Also, don't think that because you use MAC Filtering gives you any layer of good security. It doesn't.</p><p></p><p>All an attacker has to do is monitor the Wi-Fi traffic for a second or two, examine a packet to find the MAC address of an allowed device, change their device’s MAC address to that allowed MAC address, and connect in that device’s place. You may be thinking that this will not be possible because the device is already connected, but a “deauth” or “deassoc” attack that forcibly disconnects a device from a Wi-Fi network will allow an attacker to reconnect in its place.</p><p></p><p>More reading.</p><p><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/204458/why-you-shouldn’t-use-mac-address-filtering-on-your-wi-fi-router" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/204458/why-you-shouldn’t-use-mac-address-filtering-on-your-wi-fi-router</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noladevildog, post: 332760, member: 33054"] Also, don't think that because you use MAC Filtering gives you any layer of good security. It doesn't. All an attacker has to do is monitor the Wi-Fi traffic for a second or two, examine a packet to find the MAC address of an allowed device, change their device’s MAC address to that allowed MAC address, and connect in that device’s place. You may be thinking that this will not be possible because the device is already connected, but a “deauth” or “deassoc” attack that forcibly disconnects a device from a Wi-Fi network will allow an attacker to reconnect in its place. More reading. [url]http://www.howtogeek.com/204458/why-you-shouldn’t-use-mac-address-filtering-on-your-wi-fi-router[/url] [/QUOTE]
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