[JRandomFreeper]

If you check the IP address of this post, you will find that your 64 bit encryption doesn't stand up to some of the tools to hack wireless LANs. Har! Who's the GEEK? Seriously. Look at some of the hacking tools. I won't run wireless lan yet. Unless I get peer to peer encryption running all the way up to layer 4.

/john

[Bitwhacker]

Well, I got 64-bit encryption -- Gold Level -- running already -- verrrry niiiiiiice!!!! And the IP address of my posts is that of my router (which is my gateway/firewall/proxy), NOT my workstation, which is 10.n.n.n anyway (not routable)...

But I agree, 802.11a/b/c is not security-ready, yet -- but on the other hand, I am a nobody who no one even knows I exist yet anyway; should I flatter myself to think that there are people out there just waiting to get into my home network via 802.11b, to see...what? My MP3's??

They can't get at me via my cable modem connection; I have a two-layer firewall, and I have disabled all the Microtrash that sends like a beacon in the night: "I'm here!!!"

But, just in case, I am running tripwires and intrusion detectors...;)

ALL networking is a tradeoff...anytime you connect 2 devices with wires and don't restrict two-way comm, you have a security risk...It's just too convenient for me to be able to be mobile for at least a couple of hundred yards...

[JRandomFreeper]

See post number 89 and chide me for using geek-speak. I missed you guys this weekend. But I really had a lot of fun.

/john