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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless adapter
From:       Bruno Lustosa <bruno.lists () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-09-06 18:03:56
Message-ID: b9e0c3fe0409061103163a7a85 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:51:53 -0600, Collins Richey <crichey@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before doing this, make sure you understand the security implications!
> Unless you do a thorough job with security (not simple with wireless),
> you are making it possible for anyone (including roaming identity
> thiefs) to scarf up all your accounts and passwords and creditcard
> numbers and to monkey with any of your systems if your non-wirelss
> security is not up to snuff. It's downright scary what can be done
> with open-source wireless tools, a laptop, and a directional antenna.
> With basic wireless security all a thief needs to do is to scarf up a
> couple of weeks of your activity in order to decode the encryption.

I do understand, and was reading about wireless security. As there are
no cables, anyone could easily sniff "packets" (flying packets?) from
my network.
There are countermeasures though, and I was reading about WEP (Wired
Equivalent Privacy), which does some kind of encryption. Both the
wireless card and router support it.
Is there something else I will need?

Bruno

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