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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Interesting. Forgive my ignorance on some of this, but for my home Internet connection I have a wired connection between my wireless router/modem. Then for the wireless devices I use in my home to make Internet connection the proper password must be entered and as well as the router is set up to allow connection only from the list of MAC addresses that correspond to the cards in my devices. I do leave my modem/router on all the time and so connected to the Internet. So to make unauthorized use of my connection someone would have to be within range of my modem, crack my password, and spoof one of the MAC addresses of my devices? Or is it worse than that?
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Spoofing a mac address is trivial. The only safe guard is your wifi encryption of which wpa2 is afaik the only unbroken one at this time.
Also, this is assuming people are not using wifi or bluetooth keyboards. There's
several cases where weak/no encryption has been used by those which could easily lead to someone hacking your network or sniffing passwords. The previous link is to an old news item, but I'm sure there'll be more recent cases (although I hope device makers stepped up their security after those reports)