WI-FI

[MAP]

About a week ago I made a comment in a reply that a
wireless connection is unsecured,Of course I was blasted
and told that I was wrong,spywareinfo.com has a good
article on the subject with several links to newspapers
reporting that it is unsecured.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/0104/13.php

 

[Nothing's Sacred]

-----Original Message-----
About a week ago I made a comment in a reply that a
wireless connection is unsecured,Of course I was blasted
and told that I was wrong,spywareinfo.com has a good
article on the subject with several links to newspapers
reporting that it is unsecured.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/0104/13.ph

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No communication is secure including wired! With wired
networks, a person has to physically tap into an ethernet
cable to get data, but it can certainly be done. No
network is secure. The difference between wireless and
wired is wireless is easier. That's all.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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No communication is secure including wired! With wired
networks, a person has to physically tap into an ethernet
cable to get data, but it can certainly be done. No
network is secure. The difference between wireless and
wired is wireless is easier. That's all.

There's often another very big difference. From where I am
sitting, I can see all the cables connecting the computers in my
small home network. If anyone has tapped into them, I could see
it instantly. With a wireless network, it's not only easier to
intrude, but typically much less apparent.

 

[MAP]

Agreed!

-----Original Message-----
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No communication is secure including wired! With wired
networks, a person has to physically tap into an ethernet
cable to get data, but it can certainly be done. No
network is secure. The difference between wireless and
wired is wireless is easier. That's all.

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[Nothing's Sacred]

There's often another very big difference. From where I
am

sitting, I can see all the cables connecting the computers in my
small home network. If anyone has tapped into them, I could see
it instantly. With a wireless network, it's not only easier to
intrude, but typically much less apparent.

Very true. But, you have the advantage of being the only
tenant in a home. Many businesses share offices in the
same building with many other businesses. It wouldn't be
too difficult to tap into your neighbour's wiring in the
walls/floor/ceiling without their knowledge. Scary, but
true!

 

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From News of theWeird

a.. Toronto police arrested Walter Nowakowski, 35, in November on several
pornography counts as well as theft of services after an officer spotted him
driving the wrong way on a one-way street at 5 a.m. According to police,
Nowakowski was pantsless, with a laptop computer running in the front seat,
as he drove slowly down streets in search of wireless Internet signals that
he could use to download pornography. [Toronto Star, 11-21-03]

 

[MAP]

Wireless networking is a great convenience but it
presents some important security issues. Along with
standard wireless security measures such as changing the
access point's SSID from the default, changing the
default administrative password, disabling SSID
broadcasting and using WEP encryption, on some wireless
access points you'll also need to disable SNMP (Simple
Network Management Protocol) to prevent hackers from
gathering information about the network. You might also
want to disable DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol) so hackers can't automatically obtain an IP
address but will instead have to go to the trouble of
figuring out your IP addressing arrangement.

 

[Alex Nichol]

About a week ago I made a comment in a reply that a
wireless connection is unsecured,

As set up it is. But can be secured fairly effectively using the WEP
encryption in the connections Properties (which should be done for All
such nets once they are working); and even better by the methods in the
recent upgrade to wireless networking in the Update site