It is possible to hack Wi-Fi, but without extreme patience and the necessary knowledge it's more accurately described as impossible. Even for a professional hacker it is time-consuming and requires skill and dedication, and there is no guarantee that their efforts will be rewarded should a secondary antivirus, firewall or encryption get in the way, so it's not something anyone does on a whim.

Most Wi-Fi networks currently use WPA2 security, but a new standard is coming very soon called WPA3. It fixes WPA2's flaw whereby a brute-force attack can continually guess passwords with unlimited re-tries. With WPA3, there will only be one 'offline' attempt. We'd stop short of saying it's unhackable, but it's a heck of a lot more secure than WPA2.

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