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OK, can anyone tell me why I would want to encrypt my wireless network? I know the main reason is so people don't steal your bandwidth, but I live in a relatively secluded area, and have a pretty big house. I think most (if not all) of my neighbors have wi-fi, too. Other than someone stealing bandwidth, is there any reason to encrypt my network?
Because if they get on your connection and do little nasties or illegal things, they come get you. :-) Also a way of protecting any computers on your net.
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- If I connect to your network and send a death threat against the President the Secret Service knocks on YOUR door, not mine.
- More realistically, if you shop online every time you order you're broadcasting your credit card number to anyone listening.
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Oh. Now that you've reminded me, many years ago I was a lab assistant in college and one of the students was with me in the computer lab - banks of terminals with students fervishly writing their programs all day - and he jokingly said, "I don't get the big deal about passwords. Who cares?" he yelled, "MY PASSWORD IS -------" to the room, turned to me, and said, "What can happen?" then he turned around and tried to log on.
- Changing his password was only the FIRST thing they did to him. It took me a week to decrypt his files. Oh yeah, when your wifi isn't encrypted you're also sending user-id and password information in the clear.
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I thought if you were online, and send passwords or shop, since HTTPS is used, nobody could get your info. It's true that people can steal your passwords if the network isn't encrypted?
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I don't know how easy it is to get you creditcard nr but at least change the def admin pass on the router. Every ID10T can lock you out and if they do it can take you some time before you realize that.
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They can print 100 pages of not nice to see pictures and trust me you dont want that.
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- Not all online vendors are nice enough/smart enough to use HTTPS.
- Yes, account information is sent in the clear over a non-encrypted wifi network, everything from leaving comments on a message board to retrieving your email exposes personal information to anyone monitoring your wireless traffic.
BTW, it takes anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks to crack a WEP encrypted wifi network using commonly available cracker tools. Depends on how many packets/hour they can sniff. For businesses with >4 people online it takes about 2 days; home networks take a couple of months or so. The newer WPA encryption is tougher to crack but you should still change your encryption key periodically, like once a month or so.
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OrionCA you might want to update your time for cracking a WEP key. This article has it at 1hr 27minutes. Certainly not in days or weeks and never months
see here
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/excerpt/wirlsshacks_chap1/Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search
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"I then set the iMac to flood ping the AirPort, in order to generate a large amount of wireless traffic"
Well, if you can arrange for someone to ping-flood the network, as this guy did, less than 2 hours is reasonable. Until then I'll stick with my estimates.
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