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On 05/19/2011 02:10 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 02:35:09 PM Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> SSID hiding is *not* secure. It is *not* a deterrent. Security through 
>> obscurity is *not* security.
> 
> SSID hiding isn't about security.  It's about being able to show that someone who hacked into your network intended to do so, it didn't just pop up on their screen as an open access point that they accidentally used..... 'goes to intent' that is.

 Still a bad idea - some things may, for anything that violates the
802.11 standards - such as non-broadcast of SSID,  choose not to connect
to your router. That means some of your client devices may no longer
work ...

 This is especially true if there are multiple wifi access points on
same SSID (standard practice for roaming in your big office/house case).
Hiding the SSID will break roaming completely.

 So, turning off SSID broadcast is really not a good suggestion.