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July 25, 2005
Is your Wireless Network Secure?
You're sitting at home at your kitchen table, or on the sofa, watching TV, with your notebook computer. The wireless router you bought at Best Buy is communicating perfectly with your notebook; you're on the Internet in your kitchen, just as if you're in the coffee shop. Life is good...
Just as you're musing how good life is, your front door is slammed open and men shouting "POLICE -- SEARCH WARRANT" are pouring into your home. You freeze in panic as a police officer pushes you away from your computer. Your family is now all standing in the middle of your den, a mixture of panic and confusion playing across their faces. The policemen take your computer, your wife's computer, as well as the one in your kid's bedroom.
An hour or so later, as you're handing the copy of the search warrant to your attorney, you're still confused as your attorney tells you that the cops suspect someone in your house of trafficking in child pornography.
No way! You exclaim to your attorney. He believes you, as do the cops, finally, after they totally search the three computers they seized from your house.
Where did they get the notion that you had child porn on your computer? From your IP Address. That's the number assigned by the phone company or cable company to the computers in your house. That router you bought allows all of the computers in your house to share that single IP address. It also allows you to connect your notebook to the Internet via its wireless capability.
When you set up the router, you went through all the configuration...BUT...like 80% or more of the owners of home wireless networks, you didn't implement any sort of security. That means someone could sit in a car in front of your house and access the Internet the same way you do on your notebook.
It takes about fifteen minutes to secure a wireless network. Drop us a line or give us a call, we'll explain it to you.
Posted by Edward J. Branley at July 25, 2005 8:30 PM
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