[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[James Sumners]

Show me the Georgia law, or even federal law, that makes an open WAP illegal.

Attempting to break into a "secured" network, however, is indeed illegal.

On 1/30/06, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > As has been said, use WPA if you can. I doubt your stand alone AP is
> > going to support it unless there is a newer firmware available to add
> > the support. It is relatively new. WPA support with you PCI card might
> > be easier but that is going to depend on what card it is and what
> > drivers you can use for it. I have an SMC 2802W for my
> > router/wap/gateway and it works rather well, but I don't know if it
> > supports WPA. The driver I am using is the old driver from
> > prism54.org.
> >
> > But really, do you really need to "secure" the wireless signal? I
> > haven't seen any reason to attempt to do so. Anything sensitive I do
> > is already encrypted via ssh or ssl. I don't really care if people can
> > sniff my IM conversations and web surfing. If you are just worried
> > about the neighbors leeching bandwidth, why not let them?
>
> Because when the kid down the street downloads a pirated movie via your
> network, they're going to come looking for you as well.
>
> I just walked down the street a couple of weeks ago to let a neighbor
> know that I did not appreciate his son attempting to hack my wireless.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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