http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 pe Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:06:24 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/#comment-1290 I happen to like having my home network unsecured. It allows me to share my broadband easily with my neighbors and any potential driveby's. They might be hackers, but then I really don't care. I have Mac's on my network, and thus already secure and safe. If someone wants to drive up to my house and sniff the packets, then more power to them. I happen to like having my home network unsecured. It allows me to share my broadband easily with my neighbors and any potential driveby’s. They might be hackers, but then I really don’t care. I have Mac’s on my network, and thus already secure and safe. If someone wants to drive up to my house and sniff the packets, then more power to them.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/comment-page-1/#comment-1289 anu Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:22:10 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/#comment-1289 Err - yeah it's the people's fault. Nothing to do with hardware and software vendors releasing crappy, buggy, insecure and hard to install products. Nothing to do with an industry that in the main values features and complexity over ease of use. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> You probably work for linksys. Err – yeah it’s the people’s fault. Nothing to do with hardware and software vendors releasing crappy, buggy, insecure and hard to install products. Nothing to do with an industry that in the main values features and complexity over ease of use.

You probably work for linksys.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Dianna Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:33:53 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/#comment-1288 Same thing with firewalls and antivirus programs - just a default checkmark in "Enable Internet Firewall" would save so much time and $ for the average user. Unless they use Linux :) Same thing with firewalls and antivirus programs – just a default checkmark in “Enable Internet Firewall” would save so much time and $ for the average user.
Unless they use Linux

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 Byrocat Mon, 31 May 2004 15:50:05 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2004/05/31/wifi-security/#comment-1287 People aren't inherently stupid, but we have a lot of people who know nothing or very little about LANs and security, who are relying on the knowledge of the people who seel them the product to pass the knowledge along. However..... many of the sellers are interested in one thing rather than ensuring that the customer is fully informed "Here, you set it up, plug it in, power it up, and tada! you're golden! Cash, card or debit?" <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Also, the manufacturers sell the product with no defaults in anticipation that the security settings will be set up by the user. Same premise -- takes time, time is money.... People aren’t inherently stupid, but we have a lot of people who know nothing or very little about LANs and security, who are relying on the knowledge of the people who seel them the product to pass the knowledge along. However….. many of the sellers are interested in one thing rather than ensuring that the customer is fully informed “Here, you set it up, plug it in, power it up, and tada! you’re golden! Cash, card or debit?”

Also, the manufacturers sell the product with no defaults in anticipation that the security settings will be set up by the user. Same premise — takes time, time is money….

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