A hospital wing uses a hidden staff SSID that suppresses the name in beacons. How can authorized recon still discover it?
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Short Explanation
“Hidden” mostly means the beacon is shy—clients still probe and associate, and those frames often spill the name. Beacon blanking is not an invisibility cloak.
Full Explanation
SSID cloaking suppresses the name in beacons but does not eliminate other management and control exchanges. Client probes and association-related activity commonly disclose the network name to observers. Hidden mode is not cryptographic secrecy, does not erase all management traffic, and is not discovered via unrelated café SNMP polling.