Interesting read in Salon today, about disabling WEP etc in the name of privacy...
"May 18, 2004 | Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address filtering and made sure the SSID was being broadcast loud and clear. Now, anyone with a wireless card and a sniffer who happens by can use my connection to access the Internet. And with DHCP logging turned off, there's really no way to know who's using it. What's wrong with me? Haven't I heard about how malicious wardrivers can use my connection from across the street to stage their hacking operations? How my neighbors can steal my bandwidth so they don't have to pay for their own? How I'm exposing my home network to attacks from the inside? Yup. So why am I doing this? In a word, privacy." Rest of the article at http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe_and_insecure/index.htm l (you'll need to get a 'daypass', a relatively painless 1 minute or sp experience, if you are not a Slon subscriber). -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
