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To: stripes1776

I do trust my husband, and he’s the only one on our network. ;) And we have a password for our wireless. Does that make it secure from this? I NEVER use wifi out of the house. But husband does when he travels. He thought an ethernet card made it safe? I admit, the technology has passed me by. I was so hip and cool back in the days of DOS....


26 posted on 11/09/2010 8:53:17 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: stripes1776

What I meant to say, and may not have made clear is, our home router has a password on it, as awhile back we suspected a neighbor was getting on our internet.


27 posted on 11/09/2010 8:54:50 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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I was so hip and cool back in the days of DOS....

LOL. Me too!

I do trust my husband, and he’s the only one on our network. ;) And we have a password for our wireless. Does that make it secure from this?

This is the point where, unfortunately, we have to talk Geek. Your wireless network needs to use the best encryption available these days. That is something called WPA2. If you have a password for your wireless home network using WPA2, and only you and your husband are using it, you are safe.

I NEVER use wifi out of the house.

That is wise.

But husband does when he travels. He thought an ethernet card made it safe?

No, simply an ethernet card does not make him safe. It depends upon the type of encryption the websites he connects to are using. That also goes for email. As far as I know, only gmail would be secure by default.

29 posted on 11/09/2010 9:08:45 AM PST by stripes1776
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If you husband travels frequently he should subscribe to a VPN such as witopia or cotse.
30 posted on 11/09/2010 9:11:11 AM PST by Gomez (shibboleet)
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