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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:35:58 on Thursday Thursday 24 December 2009, G T Smith 
<grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > The LAN is not set for either WEP or WPA; neither is necessary in my
> > situation.
>
> The only situation where this is possibly a valid assumption is if and
> only if you are living in the middle of a desert without any external
> network connection. Otherwise this is the equivalent of leaving your
> credit card and password on your doorstop with a 'please take me' sign!

This is, in fact, what I have told my friend, who lives in a house 
surrounded by other computer users and very close to the street. I, on 
the other hand, am surrounded by the homes of elderly folk who are afraid 
of computers, and am far from the street, so "drive-by" hacking would be 
difficult. We are talking several hundred meters. In addition to all 
that, my home is built of concrete blocks, like virtually all buildings 
in this country (in which lumber has to be imported at some expense), and 
I can't detect my router even from directly outside the building; I doubt 
that the card has more juice than the router. The easiest way to intrude 
into my WiFi card would be to hover over the house in a helicopter -- the 
roof is my Achilles heel.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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