[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Mike Harrison]

> What I would like to have happen is for our laptops to be able to "WiFi 
> up" at home as easily as at Joe Blow's Hotspot and Cafe.  However, I 
> also don't want to be trivially eavesdropped on or leeched off of (over 
> the weekend, the newer laptop was finding two nearby WAPs from the 

Not compatible goals.

Choices: 

A.  Run hidden SSID's and WPA and be reasonable secure from non-directed 
    attacks/interlopers.. but any guests in your house/network will have 
    to be configured. 

B.  Run wide open "coffee shop" style, but treat/configure all your machines and 
    network as if they are on a hostile wide open network/internet, 

C.  Run two AP/Firewalls, one for you configured as 'A' and one plugged 
    into your network, configured as 'B' (possibly even on a DMZ port/config
    if your primary Firewall/AP has one) which is a great use for that 
    older 10mbps only AP/Firewall.

D.  Both C -and- treat your inside network as hostile.

Options: 

  Run Etherape on a promisc wireless interface and watch people surf you...
  Run a public AP on a honeypot network/host and watch people surf you...
  Run NTOP (www.ntop.org) and watch people surf you.. 
  All of the above and more...

Extra Option: 

  Watch your neighbor, a BellSouth.net DSL/M$-guru surf "your network"
  scarf the porn movies files off the shared drive on a laptop setup
  for this purpose. Then watch him go ape-shit as he sees that those
  files labeled: XXXgreatporn1.mpg  XXXfantasticsexshots69.mpg are just 
  movies of you giving him the finger, laughing.. and saying "caught you!".

  Works when I take that laptop to Coffee shops as well..