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by jiggy2011
5029 days ago
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All of the WPA2 attacks I've seen assume predictable SSIDs and Passwords. Again , ISPs seem to be ahead of this. Looking in my local area most of the APs have names like "BThub543897534895" and I assume that the passwords are randomly generated. |
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You're right about ISPs being on the safe side with their SSIDs and passwords, but I think you're underestimating the users here. For the sake of it I've spent an hour and a half driving around town a year ago, logging locations of access points. I never did anything with the data except for looking at how access points are distributed across my town. Most of the AP names where common words or a combination of such. Concerning passwords, I've used wifi at friends and coworkers places quite a few times and most of them had weak passwords.
An attacker might just go and do some wardriving and randomly attack access points and I believe he'll find one weak enough without much of a hassle.
Bottom line it's the same as always: In the real world security isn't as depended on technology as it is on how much the user is concerned with it. How that works out in a lawsuit is a different question though.