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  • Vanity: FReeper help on selecting a wireless router.

    10/22/2014 5:30:43 PM PDT · by PROCON · 83 replies
    Vanity | Oct. 22, 2014
    I'm moving from Oregon to Washington and my new cable provider (Charter TV) asks if I want to lease a wireless router to interact with their internet modem for $6.00/month.I know nothing about wireless routers.Should I go with the company or buy a router?What kind? I only have one computer.
  • NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

    12/29/2013 12:38:00 PM PST · by lowbridge · 80 replies
    http://www.theverge.com ^ | december 29, 2013 | t.c. sottek
    According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency's elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality. The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA's TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own "secret workshops" in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install...
  • Need help choosing a new Wireless Router.

    03/18/2012 3:48:29 PM PDT · by Lazlo in PA · 48 replies · 1+ views
    vanity ^ | 03-18-12 | Lazlo in PA
    I believe that my Trendnet TEW-432BRP Wireless Router is kaput. I get a signal from it on my laptop and Blue Ray player with WiFi. I do not get any internet service from it though. I believe that the unit is not receiving info from my Cisco cable modem. I eliminated the wireless and hard wired the computer directly to the cable modem and I have internet access. Since I believe my router has failed, does anyone have any ideas on replacing it? I tried to research it and it gave me a headache. I am hoping to spend under...
  • Guy Gets SWAT Team-ed for Not Securing His Wireless Network

    04/25/2011 9:49:12 PM PDT · by neverdem · 22 replies
    Reason ^ | April 24, 2011 | Radley Balko
    Buffalo, New York: Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought."We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name,...