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Old 11-18-17, 12:47 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Geo NR Gee View Post
Thanks for the comments....Would I get a second router, or connect their equipment up to the guest account on my original router?
A lot of routers can broadcast two SSIDs, you could click around in your router's firmware web-page to see if it has the capability, a lot of routers you can also flash with custom firmware to do this, but that may be a bit too much effort for the value.

Honestly you are probably OK these days; *most* services are wrapping sensitive data, or just all data, with encryption these days. Https is good enough as long as you're ok with the government being able to crack everything open.

And since late March of 2017 your ISP is already scooping every bit of your unencrypted traffic, and all of the metadata from your encrypted traffic anyways, thanks congress. So whatever, no point in trying to secure it until that gets repealed.

Just understand that for default WPA2 encryption everyone on the network is using the same encryption key, so anyone with access can view all otherwise open traffic on that network, and potentially mount open air attacks as well.
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