Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:21:47 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:17 PM 9/9/2005 -0400, Don Parris (webdev@matheteuo.org) wrote:
I'd like to setup at least two, maybe two boxes and a Dell Latitude C610 laptop on a wireless LAN - preferably with SUSE 10.0 (I'm playing with beta 4 now).
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Wireless is reckless! Anyone driving by the house, as well as close neighbors, can tap into your wireless network. Using a small Yagi antenna, people as far as a quarter mile away may be able to get in. The antenna is readily available from outfits like Cushcraft. A wired LAN is much safer.
While this is true for unencrypted WLAN's, I doubt if this claim holds water for the serious encryption technology modern wireless hardware offers.
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. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704