<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am using a MAC address access list in my router to secure my home network. I know that you can sniff then spoof a MAC address but is seems a little overkill to worry about that out here in suburbia. Especially given no teenagers living within several blocks.<div><br></div><div>I have advised two friends to do the same as their WPA setups quit working or have been uncooperative to additions. </div><div><br></div><div>Do any of you security experts consider this particularly bad advise to give out? Should I help them get WPA working? After having played with some of the tools for sniffing and cracking strong passwords I am wondering if it is worth the extra effort.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Mark Wright</div><div><a href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>