Comments on: Man charged with stealing Wi-Fi signal http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2005/07/08/man-charged-with-stealing-wi-fi-signal/ Ramblings of an Old Man on Old-Time and Contemporary Radio, Television, the Arts, and the News; includes OTR Podcast Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tom Kirby http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2005/07/08/man-charged-with-stealing-wi-fi-signal/#comment-904 Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:14:10 +0000 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2005/07/08/man-charged-with-stealing-wi-fi-signal/#comment-904 You would think that after the disasters that occured after shipping Windows in "everything open" mode, the manufacturers of wireless equipment would have shipped the gear with everything closed and instructions on how to allow yourself in. I haven't gone wireless yet, but when I do, I'll lock it up somehow. I had heard about encryption, but I hadn't heard about MAC filtering. That just goes to show how much I still need to learn before I do it. -- Tom You would think that after the disasters that occured after shipping Windows in “everything open” mode, the manufacturers of wireless equipment would have shipped the gear with everything closed and instructions on how to allow yourself in.

I haven’t gone wireless yet, but when I do, I’ll lock it up somehow. I had heard about encryption, but I hadn’t heard about MAC filtering. That just goes to show how much I still need to learn before I do it.

– Tom

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