[Coco] thingy finds an unencrypted network

[Stephen Castello]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:20:36 -0500, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:


>  The minute I bought my wireless router I secured 

>it.  Change the password often, though, because there are tools that 

>can probe the security doors until it guesses the password.  It takes 

>sometimes millions of tries, but when you notice your bandwidth 

>dropping to dial-up speed sometimes when you're not doing anything it 

>kinda makes you wonder if someone is doing just that.  There's also 

>the measure of using the directional antennas, like the Cantenna, for 

>a good purpose, of helping keep your signal focused inside of your 

>house in a beam instead of escaping in a huge radiation globe for all to see.

>

>Secure your network.  Go into your router (usually 192.168.1.1) and 

>simply enable the security feature.  This should keep your neighbors 

>and war drivers out of your system, and even then use the firewall 

>and sharing priveledges under Windows/Linux, etc. to keep intruders 

>out of your files, even if they can somehow tap into your internet 

>connection if the router is open.


One place to get a random password/key:
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

Stephen
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