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Chris Pepper, Master Editor, pointed out something I missed. If you memorize an encrypted network, your iPhone won't connect to an unencrypted one with the same name, or one with a different password. Thus unless the bad guy knows your WPA passphrase (you're not dumb enough to use WEP, are you?), you can memorize your home network and not worry about accidentally connecting while wandering around, even if it's still called "tsunami".
—Rich
Posted at Wednesday 30th April 2008 2:56 am Filed under: apple • iphone • misc • non-geek • security
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Love iphone and your articles :)
[...] Update: See Update To The iPhone Security Tip. [...]
<i>f you memorize an encrypted network, your iPhone won’t connect to an unencrypted one with the same name, or one with a different password.</i>
Really? I can believe the former, but it won’‘t try to connect to an encrypted network with the password you saved, sharing the password in the process? It’s been a while since I reviewed the WPA spec but won’‘t it do this with WPA-PSK?
Yep- I confirmed it by turning off WPA2-PSK on my home network, and my iPhone wouldn’‘t connect anymore, even though it saw the SSID.
