Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!peer04.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Hidden SSID is Security Risk? Date: 29 Sep 2016 04:06:48 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <270920162120121208%star@sky.net> <280920162322481202%star@sky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net r4J783DSjGQHwbLbFhIwjQS64UrDpyVIHdQvkTVJwrorPFJ4lP Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ant8Kh1V1Ees+F2FCtlF9gCvmtA= sha1:E59EL3WZJY2QWoLZvJlzaiR3Lzs= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1.8 (iPhone/iPod Touch) X-Received-Bytes: 1281 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3236136730 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:94915 Davoud wrote: > > BTW, the router in question--the one Apple tells me to reconfigure to > reveal the SSID--is an Apple-brand Airport Base Station. So why did > Apple make it capable of hiding the SSID if that's Bad? Yep. And why didn't they give you a warning when you hid it on the router? Seems sloppy to me. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR