At 12:35:58 on Thursday Thursday 24 December 2009, G T Smith <grahamsmith@gandalfsemporium.homelinux.com> 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org