Jos, On Saturday 10 September 2005 06:09, Jos van Kan wrote:
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You must be joking. 'serious encryption technology'? Please - I've seen systems that were theoretically encrypted hacked in less than an hour, and most people don't enable the encryption anyway... I recommend against wireless LANs to all of my clients in the strongest terms possible. It's not worth it.
Sigh. For crying out loud, we were talking about a home-wlan and whether the neighbors would get in. Not about a bank or hospital and professional hackers. I think a home-wlan is safe enough *with encryption on*. You'd also be protected by the numbers and by the fact that it requires a physical act (not just a script that you can send out to attack millions) to get into your neighborhood and a lot of effort to obtain what? Your creditcard number that would be blocked within a couple of hours. Good grief, let's get real.
Save your breath. We had the "you must quadruple-erase the contents of your swap partitions 'cause the CIA/NSA/criminal-next-door has magic overwritten disk sector reading hardware" counterpart to this paranoia-fest about a week ago. I think some people like to worry and be scared.
Jos van Kan
Randall Schulz