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 jsinaikoPremium
join:2001-04-25
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
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Re: No WEP or WPA for me! I certainly use WEP with a strange and long passphrase, along with a strange SSID. But the main thing is the number of default SSID's out there. I can see three as I write this - I'm in the city - all of them having SSID's like 2WIRE321 or LINKSYS, or belkin. And none of them have any encryption or other protection.
It's like the river, which flows over the path of least resistance. As long as there are four or five unprotected wifi's out there for every protected one, the folks who want to break in will take the easy route. Will a burgler crack a safe when there is an open cash drawer next to it? Until everyone is encrypted, WPA, WEP, whatever, as long as you are protected, its gonna be the other guy who gets hit. | | |
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 enOehTPremium
join:2003-05-17
Langhorne, PA | What ever happened to the concept of the Free Net! True, and how are you suppose to know if someone isn't just setting up a FREE NET? When WiFi first started people were intentionally leaving wireless unprotected so that anyone within range could use it. So, is one to assume if you stumble onto an unprotected AP that it is a person who didn't bother to hide it, or more likely didn't know how to hide it, OR that it is a FREE NET that someone setup for that purpose? | |
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