On 16/09/18 17:51, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
I've set up MAC address lists, after a surprising number of reboots to unwedge the router (did I even mention I hate flaky PC-style software?).
How can my hacker avoid them? Wait until my wife's Mac drops off-line and steal her MAC?
Actually I'd like to know more about your wifi setup. What kind of security is/was in place? I'd be somewhat dubious about a malicious hacker if you were using WPA2 with a decent passphrase. Ok, if WEP, well that takes a few minutes, but if you're using WEP then all hope is lost.. If WPA2, try it out, fire up aireplay, capture the 4 way handshake and then run wpacrack against it with a decent dictionary. If you have a moderately ok passphrase, it will take days on a decently speced machine to brute force it, if at all. Howto here: https://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=cracking_wpa Are you sure something else isn't going on?