On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:35:23 -0500 "William L. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today's NYTimes has an article about "piggybacking" on open wireless > networks and what some people think about it and what some are doing > about it. The link is: > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/technology/05wireless.html > (subscription may be req'd) > > One question popped up for me when I read the following sentence: > > "For the Brodeurs in Los Angeles, a close reading of their network's > manual helped them to finally encrypt their network." > > My question is whether it's more accurate to say "secure their network" > rather than "encrypt". I'm not clear myself about the meaning of these > terms; I think of encryption as being one way to make a network secure. > > And if there is a substantive difference in these terms, then I'd like > to understand it. I believe that a better understanding of security > would help ordinary users take more secure actions. I'm an optimist. > I suspect that in general you're right, but in this case they really meant "encrypt" -- turn on WEP to secure the net. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php
