"Those of you that are involved in creating these products, I don't know what the hell you are thinking of. Are you designing these products for the fellow in the next cubicle, or for consumers?" Vadasz asked a crowd of WLAN product makers here. "Grandma does not do SSID. SSID should never appear."
SSID, short for service set identifier, differentiates one WLAN from another. All access points and all devices attempting to connect to a specific WLAN must use the same SSID. Currently, WLAN users often have to manually enter an SSID to connect to a network.
Security is the second priority, Vadasz said. Over two-thirds of network architects at large enterprises fear that adding wireless would compromise their network security, and more than half of executives see rogue access points as a serious problem, he said.
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