Walk into a well stocked military surplus store and you can walk out with all the tools you need to break into a house in short order, and trust me it doesn't take long to learn how to use them well enough.
The point is that once someone is determined enough to get into either your home or network, it doesn't take much to reach a stage where the owner has to go to great lengths to resist a very unlikely occurring, but very likely successful, attack.
Like locks at doors, only meant to desuade the random amateur. Given enough dedtermination, preparation, tools and skills one can enter anything.
But since I'm not the Pentagon I don't live in nuclear bunkers and don't employ regiments of cybersecurity people. I uess the risk of being cracked by pros is just part of the normal risk of live.
My point is that you don't need any tools to break into a house. Kick in a door or throw a rock through a window. That is why the analogy is bad. Someone has to be very determined at breaking in to buy all those things. Someone has to be very determined to break into a secured network.
But someone does not have to be determined to break into the average house. And they do not have to be determined to break into a network that is misconfigured.
Using WPA2 with a long password and turning off WDS makes a network safe from direct attack.
Walk into a well stocked military surplus store and you can walk out with all the tools you need to break into a house in short order, and trust me it doesn't take long to learn how to use them well enough.
The point is that once someone is determined enough to get into either your home or network, it doesn't take much to reach a stage where the owner has to go to great lengths to resist a very unlikely occurring, but very likely successful, attack.