Paul Mullen wrote: > At some point you need to compare the cost of all these security > measures to their supposed benefit. What is the probability that > anyone cares enough about gaining access to your network that they'd > go to all the trouble of sniffing out the SSID, MAC addresses, > cracking your WEP, etc.? Rather quite low, I'd bet. It may be a better > use of your time to focus on host security instead. >
Probably right. For years I've counted on my router hiding my house from the outside world. I do have trouble getting from one machine to another inside the house, sometimes (XP machines talking to Linux machines) but I haven't put the effort into understanding all the issues involved in good network security. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
