At 7:53 AM -0600 3/9/2011, Charles Lenington wrote:
I hope everyone with unsecured wireless networks takes todays report
on NBC's Today show seriously. Luckily the FBI investigated enough
that the owner of the open network didn't go to jail for pornography.
heh. While I feel for the home-owner, I don't have much mercy for
people that leave their networks or computers wide open. This is the
21st century.
...Verizon usually likes to install their FiOS ONT boxes on the
*outside* of the home. Makes it easier for their people to get into
it if they need. That bugs me -- there's a cat5 connector right
there, for a wardriver et al to just plug in! We had 'em put it in
our basement.
Sure a password is inconvenient, but staying out of jail would be
high on my list.
It took ... a hundred years to get people into the habit of locking
their doors? And another 50 years to get into the habit of locking
their cars?
It might help if the WAP manufacturers enabled WPA2 by default.
Haven't seen that yet tho.
At 3:06 PM +0000 3/9/2011, Ted Treen wrote:
Oh, I haven't found a need for them. I have plenty of hubs, routers
and cat 5 cables.
I turn off at both houses, (country and town).
I'm with Charles on this one (although I don't have country & town
residences). I DO have 13 cats, and as yet, I'm unconvinced of the
safety of exposing them 24/7 to 2.4GHz EMR. Cat5E is cheap - well,
as cheap as anything is here in the UK.
We use cat5 simply because the slow speed of wi-fi drives us nutz.
Bluetooth I use very occasionally - rarely for more than 5 mins at a time
Bluetooth connections are always encrypted; not like wi-fi at all.
- Dan.
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