Myth vs. reality: wireless SSIDs

Do you ever wonder sometimes how it is that some ideas just won't die? Like the thought that not broadcasting your wireless network's SSID will somehow make you more secure? This is a myth that needs to be forcibly dragged out behind the woodshed, strangled until it wheezes its last labored breath, then shot several times for good measure. Folks, there are fundamental differences between names, which are public claims of identities, and authenticators, which are secrets used to prove identities.

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Rogue Access Points: Back doors into your Network
Let's say that an employee in your company gets a new laptop. He's excited about the laptop's WiFi capabilities, but the company he works for doesn't have wireless capabilities. What's he do?

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