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[Guest MotoMessiah]

[Martin Barrett]

another thing to worry about.

 

Up untill now I only had to contend with Guzzi paranoia and history/key stroke trackers

[dmoon64]

My neighbor just asked me if I knew what BoxtreeLane meant. That is my homes wireless network. Two hours later my other neighbors odd girlfriend asked me the same thing. She was also able to give me my password....

 

She said she could help me secure it, but since she recently was on the bridge that connects Ireland to Scotland I'm not really sure of her abilities. Oh it was the natural bridge, igneous rock or something like that. Anybody have a clue what she is referring to?

[jtucker]

My neighbor just asked me if I knew what BoxtreeLane meant. That is my homes wireless network. Two hours later my other neighbors odd girlfriend asked me the same thing. She was also able to give me my password....

 

She said she could help me secure it, but since she recently was on the bridge that connects Ireland to Scotland I'm not really sure of her abilities. Oh it was the natural bridge, igneous rock or something like that. Anybody have a clue what she is referring to?

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Yeah... setting up a wireless network at home, but not properly securing it can be a bad thing. A while back, I recall reading a news article about a guy that was arrested in Cananda. He was pulled over for erratic driving, and when the cops stopped him, they found he was naked from the waist down... and had a computer. Turns out, he was randomly driving around looking for unsecure wireless networks (or, "war driving") and when he found one, he would start downloading child porn.

 

So, if someone is using your unsecured network to download this sort of material, they can track over the network all the way to your house, but *not* to the person who was parked on the side of the road in front of your house. I would hate to get that knock on my door and have to try and explain it...

 

Sometimes the security aggrivates my wife - like when she was sent a replacement laptop from work and couldn't use it to get on the internet until I "turned the right knobs" to allow it. She thinks I'm paranoid, but I've worked for large network providers for a number of years, and I've actually had to work with Customs agents that had subpoenas to track down perverts like the Canadian... I'd rather be safe than sorry.

 

[jrt]

When I was about 5-6 years old, we had a big gray cat that liked to walk around in the false ceilings of our house. One night he fell through. On me. Scared the living sh!t out of me, and I wasn't even masturbating. That's my ceiling cat story.

I just set my wireless network to only accept connections from our own computers MAC numbers. It's not THE safest way, but it seems a good comprimise with ease of use. Well, that and the signal is weak, so you couldn't even get it from the street.

[dmoon64]

Well that apparently is the problem. My wife's company had her clear our security settings because she couldn't access her work site. You think she tells me that so I can try other stuff. Hell No!

[DeBenGuzzi]

yeah I think I need to secure my wifi, I'm pretty sure my neighbors were surfing the web off of my connection last weekend when they had the laptop out and were showing ppl houses they're looking at, I'm fairly positive they don't have wifi and mine is kinda strong I can use it behind the garage and I'm sure in the street.

[badmotogoozer]

That cat ain't watchin' me anymore. Spunked him right in the eyes. Helluva shot too if'n I don't say so meself.

 

If you HAVE to have a cat, I guess the attic is a good spot to keep it.

 

Rj