![]() ![]() RELATED: How an Attacker Could Crack Your Wireless Network Security An attacker will have to guess a password and attempt to log into the WI-Fi network with it, so they certainly can’t guess millions of times per second. We tend to think of Wi-Fi as being only vulnerable to the online attack. (Apple’s iCloud wasn’t rate-limiting password guesses in this way, and that helped lead to the huge theft of nude celebrity photos.) ![]() ![]() Because they don’t have access to the raw data they can attempt to match passwords against, they’re limited dramatically. They could guess a few passwords and then Gmail would block them from trying any more passwords for a while. For example, imagine an attacker were trying to gain access to your Gmail account. An online attack is much more difficult and takes much, much longer. ![]()
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