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I refuse to put my data in the “cloud”. I also don’t purposely give myself access to my home network from outside. I’m sure someone could break in if they were smart enough; I took some basic precautions but nothing serious.
I don’t do a computer budget, so my financial records aren’t really on my system, so they’d mostly be hacking my kids’ book reports and our extensive collection of family vacation photos and videos.
Anyone naive enough to think their personal data is safe in the “cloud” is technically illiterate enough to be a part of the West Wing Staff.
One would be nuts to cloud sensitive data.
At work, I setup our wireless to use EAP/TLS. Any computer trying to access the wireless network must be a member of our domain, where it has been issued a certificate for authentication(via RADIUS Server), and they receive their wireless settings via Group Policy. All traffic is ‘invisible’ to outsiders. We DO have an open ‘guest’ network, but it’s on a separate network/VLAN, pointed out to the net with its own DMZ.
Where I find people and businesses screwing up the most is enabling WPA, and setting a weak, or easy to guess Pre-Shared Key.
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But in case he didn’t mention it, WPA PSK (Pre Shared Key) is not all that secure either. It’s way better than WEP, etc, but if you want real security you need to use some flavor of EAP via 802.1x.
You probably have that at work. But you probably don’t at home.
To put the issue in perspective though, it still takes a determined effort to crack any encryption. And in fact most breaches are the result of “operator error” (phishing, etc.) rather than a failure of the technology.
I use MAC address exclusion, am I screwed. (No personal financial info on internet connected computers)
