From: "John Beamish" 

I understand that not broadcasting the SSID is a minor issue to hackers who
are using appropriate software but it's an issue to casual
"chancers".

As for the automatically connecting ... hmmm ... I'm in the middle of a few
things.  I'll report back later.

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:31:59 -0500, Rich Gauszka
 wrote:

> It could just be that another wireless network is in range and
> braodcasting
> it's ssid
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811427&Product=winxp
>

> I doubt not broadcasting the ssid helps with security.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1102.mspx
> Configuring hidden wireless networks is used as a security measure to

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