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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: billf on September 11, 2007, 06:48:39 pm ---So does the electric service that the neighbor is paying for to light the bulb that is shining on the porch.  Seems like a perfectly valid analogy and therefore is the same/comparable.

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It's only perfectly valid if the light is a two way service.  Steal his cable for a more applicable analogy.

I don't run wireless either - though I will soon for employment reasons.  I work from home a lot and am tired of doing it in the basement.  What I'll likely do, though, is keep the wireless disabled at the router until I am about to use it, then enable it.  When I'm done I'll disable it again.  I ran my house with cat6 for a reason.

jbox:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56691.0

boykster:
I use wireless using WPA, mac filtering (unless its in the table, it can't access), and no broadcast of ssid.  I have maximum logging enabled for both my router and my primary linux file server.  NO problems thus far, but my neighbors aren't haXXorz..in fact, my neighbor 2 doors down has an unsecured wifi router running right now that my laptop sees.....

patrickl:

--- Quote from: jbox on September 11, 2007, 11:01:32 pm ---http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56691.0

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Ha, that's hilarious.

The trouble with an open WiFi connection is that it could very well be a trap. Retreive your e-mail over someones open wireless router and they might very well be listening in. Or worse, someone else who hacked that open wireless router might be listening in.

Maybe those new fast "network over power grid" things will become more popular.

ChadTower:

A person with good knowledge of the IP protocol can get into a WEP enabled router quickly... takes a litte longer for WPA, even with MAC filtering, but it's not that hard.  And I guarantee you most people have no idea you can hop into a wireless network via the clients that are much, much, much harder to secure.

Wireless sniffers are dangerously effective things, folks, and with the cracker software out there now any wireless device can be one.

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