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There are two major variants of the SSID.
The naming is for convention only as the IEEE 802.11 standard dictates that an IBSS, BSS, and ESS are each defined by an SSID, otherwise known as a "Network Name". A Network Name is commonly set to the name of the network operator, such as a company name. Equipment manufacturers have liberally used all of the above SSID naming conventions to essentially describe the same thing. In some instances, the convention is wrong, as in the case of BSSID . An extremely weak form of wireless network security is to turn off the broadcast of the SSID: to the average user there does not appear to be a network in use; it is however still readily available to crackers using the appropriate tools. This should not be the only form of defence to protect a wireless network. Other forms of Encryption and Authentication should also be used, WEP at the very least but preferably some form of WPA . |
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