[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless Home Network

[Kevin Hulse]

--- Lance Simmons <lance at lsimmons.net> wrote:
> * Randall Gibson <wabbit at tvec.net> [040626 10:24]:
> >
> > You may think that your safe since you cannot get
> a good signal
> > throughout your house, but anyone that was looking
> to connect to
> > random wireless networks is probably a little
> better equipped.
> 
> I wasn't saying I was safe, I was trying to assess
> the relative weight
> of two different threats: threats from people
> wanting to connect
> wirelessly to me, and threats from people wanting to
> connect to me from
> the Internet.  What I was getting at wasn't that the
> wireless attacker
> has to be standing just outside my house, but rather
> that he has to be
> relatively near it.  However far a wireless
> attacker's antenna reaches,
> he'll have to be pretty close to the house (probably
> in the same
> neighborhood, for example).  An attacker from the
> Internet can be
> anywhere the Internet is.  And that's almost
> everywhere.  That's the
> point I was getting at.

Quite so. If someone is close enough to you to break
into your wireless network, there are far worse things
they could do to you.

Someone's rooted WinXP box in Versailles doesn't pose
such problems.


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