Hey Tom,
Thank you for the advice - I was guilty of having an unsecured network
myself for a while, as did a couple of my neighbors. Then I found out
that another neighbor had been "stealing" the wifi from all of us for years.
That's when I added the secure password to my WiFi.
Oh, and the neighbor thief got pretty mad at me when I did that ;-) He
also just started using another neighbor's WiFi instead (sigh).
Unfortunately, my ISP started having problems with the service around
that time to the point where some days I did not have any internet
access at all.
I finally got frustrated enough to make a change, and went ahead and
switched to a different provider a couple of weeks ago.
This is a metered Wifi, so you better believe that the first thing I did
was to set up a password for it! ;-)
Ruth Ann, Cincinnati, OH USA
On 10/1/2013 6:03 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Ok, so this is off-topic but it's another security issue.
It's fairly easy for nefarious people to set-up unsecured wiifi networks. I've
been caught out by this myself but was quite lucky because i was watching out
for it and hadn't done any on-line banking through their connection.
Typically you have a computer or device that connects to the internet without
needing a cable so you see a list of connections all with a padlock symbol and
1 or 2 with no padlock. Clicking on one of those gives you instant connection
to the internet for free!! WoooHoo!?? However everything you do on the
internet gets logged by the kind or stupid person that gave you the free
access. They can fairly easily sniff through that to find passwords or login
details of legitimate networks or even better grab your bank account details.
They might try to make life even easier for themselves by giving you spurious Phishing pages to
attempt to discover your date-of-birth, mother's maiden name, address (you are out of the house and
roaming around right?) and answer to a typical security question such as "What was your first
school" or "Who was you favourite character in a book or movie". Hotel networks
such as those used in cyber cafes, pubs, libraries, festivals, trains and other public places,
might also ask some of those things but the only bit you really have to fill in is the
password/number that they give you. Anything else should be optional and most reputable places
avoid asking anything more than they really need.
Of course all the legitimate places (plus all those who really do accidentally
leave their Wiifi hook-up wide open) all collect the same information too, as
do your ISPs, but the difference is that
1. usually they are not so interested in your personal stuff
2. they have tons more information to sift through and are usually more
worried about clearing out all the temp folders and logs rather than using them
for nefarious purposes
3. it's less impossible to trace back to them when/if something does go wrong.
Hotels tend to still be there in the morning.
Apparently in Germany it is illegal to have a wireless network that is not
secured and sniffer vans go out to try to catch people and fine them. I think
the sniffer vans find enough that they kinda pay for themselves. Of course the
other way around is also true = that nefarious characters can scrape a lot of
information out of your computer just by going in through your unsecured
wireless access point on your home router. I just don't hear abut many people
doing that yet but then they probably wouldn't brag about it much because it's
too easy.
So, hopefully people have changed their password from "password" and their pin
numbers from 1234, 1111, 2222 to something that is not quite so widely used but you still
know that vast numbers of people do still keep using them so they continue to be the
number 1 most unsafe things to use.
Regards from
Tom :)
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Ruth Ann <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 3:24
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt Installer Errors??
I had that same problem when I tried to install LO on both my new
computer and on a new laptop.
I had also been having problems with my internet connection while trying
to set up the new computer.
So, when the install did not work on either computer, I tried
downloading the program with a different WiFi network, and this time I
got different errors, but it would still not install on either computer.
So then I got the idea to download from a different web site, and this
time it did work and it installed with no problems.
I still do not know if the problem was with my internet or with the
download itself.
My new computers run Windows 8.
The original download (that gave errors during install) was the
"official" site:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
To find another site, I just googled "download Libre Office" and came up
a number of sites.
I do not remember which one I used, but I think it was either:
http://www.download-21.com/libreoffice-20639/
or
http://download.cnet.com/LibreOffice/3000-18483_4-75337651.html
HTH
Ruth Ann,
Cincinnati, OH, USA
On 9/30/2013 5:37 PM, contrazz wrote:
I've tried to install LibreOffice and the Help on two computers where I work.
The computers both complain that the main installer is not a valid installer
- and that the Help installer has a corrupt CAB file. This seems fairly
unlikely to be true, but I'm checking to see whether there have been similar
problems reported by others. If no one else is having trouble, I'll hassle
the IT department here ... I'm suspicious that it's getting hosed on this
end, somehow ...
TIA!
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independence.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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