[mdlug] The financial & legal danger of wireless in the house...

[Robert Oliver]

I keep  my wireless pretty locked down.  I change the SSIDs, default
usernames and passwords, and use WPA2.  The only thing I don't do is use a
hidden SSID, I think that tends to be more trouble than it's worth.

I think the benefits of having wireless in the home far out weigh the cons.
 In fact, depending on the business, I think the cons out weigh the benefits
in a business setting.  That's excluding "guest" wireless networks that are
separate from the company's network.  I'm talking wireless networks the
employees would be regularly connecting to in order to do their jobs.

Anyhow, just my $12 (damn inflation).

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A few years ago, I posted on the problems that could result
> > from using wireless networking in an apartment or house
> > (i.e. no "corporate veil" to protect you from personal
> > liability) & lot of people said I was nuts.
> >
>
> A different opinion:
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wireles.html
>
> I have an open wireless connection through IPCop.  It's
> bandwidth-limited in a very secure manner - an ISA Ethernet NIC.  I
> did get a message from Charter about a music copyright violation
> complaint from somebody.  Nobody on the internal network would have
> been interested in the type of music that the claim referenced so I
> knew it was from the WiFI (the traffic pattern indicated it also).
> The claimed violation was detected in the early AM which matched the
> traffic.  I simply plugged the cable modem into an appliance timer so
> it shuts off between midnight and 6am.  More or less eliminated the
> problem and keeps the address changing.
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