Each my cottage and my house have two different SSID but both uses the same password. When I got to the cottage last night, my Playbook found my cottage's SSID and automatically connected to it. Uh!?! The only way this could have happened is if it used my home SSID password at the cottage. In other world, would someone ill-intentioned be able to find out your SSID's password? Not sure but it's, to me, troubling that it acted this way...
Yes .. Ive gone to all my favorite wifi hangouts and sure enough .. PB locked right on. Showed the names as same as I renamed em in my phone. Didnt have to input a single password for any spot ive been too.
Now new places, Ive had to manually input the password.
Don't want to derail my own thread but beside being an annoyance, the only thing not broadcasting a SSID do (as well as MAC restriction) is give you a false sense of security.
Beside, it would prevent to freak out your neighbor with a SSID like 'FBI VAN 21'.
I don't know where everyone lives and can only speak for my area...conspiracy theories aside...the "average" user will be able to secure their network using one of the known security protocols, mac address filtering, DHCP Server configuration, stop SSID broadcasting ect...
I just don't see someone THAT ambitious, just to attack a home network...
The FBI Van thing is AWESOME!!! I would've never thought that...LOL changing my SSID now
...I'm not a Network Admin. by ANY means, but as I said, this should work for the average user
Each my cottage and my house have two different SSID but both uses the same password. When I got to the cottage last night, my Playbook found my cottage's SSID and automatically connected to it. Uh!?! The only way this could have happened is if it used my home SSID password at the cottage. In other world, would someone ill-intentioned be able to find out your SSID's password? Not sure but it's, to me, troubling that it acted this way...
