{"id":9357,"date":"2013-01-03T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2013-01-03T07:00:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:00:59","slug":"airport-utility-create-hidden-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/01\/03\/airport-utility-create-hidden-network\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPort Utility: Create hidden network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a request from someone to stop AirPort Express broadcasting the SSID, for security purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Hiding Wireless network SSID <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_set_(802.11_network)#Security_disadvantages_of_SSID_hiding\" target=\"_blank\">does not really enhance security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, this tactic may lead to a false sense of security, as it only impedes casual wireless snooping, and does not stop a determined attack on the network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are numerous of tools that can scan any hidden SSID.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case anyone still want to hide their AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme SSID:<\/p>\n<p>In AirPort Utility, go to &#8220;Wireless&#8221; and click on &#8220;Wireless Options&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-Express-Wireless-Configuration.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AirPort-Express-Wireless-Configuration\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-Express-Wireless-Configuration.png\" width=\"566\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check the box for &#8220;Create hidden network&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Airport-Express-Hidden-Wireless-Network.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Airport-Express-Hidden-Wireless-Network\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Airport-Express-Hidden-Wireless-Network.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a request from someone to stop AirPort Express broadcasting the SSID, for security purpose. Hiding Wireless network SSID does not really enhance security. Unfortunately, this tactic may lead to a false sense of security, as it only impedes casual wireless snooping, and does not stop a determined attack on the network. There are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/01\/03\/airport-utility-create-hidden-network\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AirPort Utility: Create hidden network&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[278,280,2511,2648,2803,936,3039],"class_list":["post-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airport-express","tag-airport-utility","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-ssid","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2qV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}