On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr
<[email protected]> wrote:
> And with that, let the soapboxing begin...

  On that note:

  It is important to remember that wireless is inherently a broadcast
medium.  So everyone around you is always receiving *everything* you
transmit.  What matters is how you protect what you transmit.  :)

  It's like a bunch of people standing in a room together.  If you
say, "Hey, Ben, your shoe is untied", most other people in the room
aren't going to bend down to tie their shoes, too.  But they'll still
hear what you said to me.  That is what things like "hidden" SSIDs and
MAC address filtering do.

  If you say, "Hey, Ben, seven six two three nine four eight five one
nine six", everyone again knows you said something to me, but they
don't know *what* unless they know the code.  That is encryption.

-- Ben

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