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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 09:40 AM EDT |
I agree with you. It is sensible to try to secure it, realizing that absolute
security is impossible.
It is not sensible to mandate security.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 10:02 AM EDT |
"My current router is secured with a MAC filter. Not especially secure,
I'll
admit, but it'll defeat most script kiddies - security by obscurity and all
that
... :-)"
You are kidding, right? They have scripts for that!
Being a script kiddie has never been better or easier.
Oh to be young again. ;-)
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| Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 12:02 PM EDT |
Securing WiFi is easy. You simply have to enable WPA2 and use a decent
password. You shouldn't use WPA or WEP if you can avoid it, as both have been
compromised. In fact, WEP is essentially useless these days. Also, with
802.11n, WPA2 is mandatory, if encryption is used. I generally use 63 random
character passwords from www.grc.com.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 03 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
I'm a big believer in using a router that supports multiple WiFi networks.
My network hides behind one with WPA2 to keep most people out. I only run Linux
and Mac's on this network, each with its own firewall policies.
I also run an open WiFi for guests or anyone outside who feels like stealing my
bandwidth.
No Windows PC's are allowed on my private network (not allowed in my house if I
can help it)
I get away with this because I live in a small neighborhood and don't do
anything crazy with my machines (no top secret materials to worry about). My
biggest concern is keeping viruses away and making it easy to use my machines.
Every once in a while I check the hosts on my router and make sure I can
identify all the MAC addresses and watch the bandwidth to make sure nothing too
bad is happening.
If I lived in an apartment building or in a busy city I'd do things completely
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