Wifi and security

Well. That was sobering reading.


I swear to God that 23 things just increased my paranoia levels. Grumbles.

Ok. Basically the gist is that WiFi basically sucks involving stopping people from hacking their little hackery selves onto your sad, not well defended wifi system, and using your wifi for nothing because WiFi sucks at keeping people from doing this. Basically.

Because WiFi, despite updates to their security system still has flaws. And there's programs out there that hackers can use to crack your encryption.

So first rule boys and girls : USE REALLY GOOD ENCRYPTION IF INSTALLING WIFI IN YOUR HOMES. Just saying, it's important.

If you have WiFi and am concerned, you can turn off Wi-Fi Protected Setup, which apparently is a feature installed in the 2007 update that has a major flaw that lets security to be bypassed and broken by hackers. That was installed five years ago, so I really hope WiFi have rectified that feature by now.

Firesheep is just plain scary Jake. SCARINESS. I am not pleased I know these things, and am now looking at WiFi's and how people use their computers in a whole new way. My god. I suddenly feel like becoming a technological hermit and never touching a computer again.

Essentially what everybody needs is good encryption that covers EVERYTHING you do on your wifi, otherwise you will be hacked, and there will be tears and some very sad people. On the wb, encryption that covers your wifi use is called HTTP and SSL. You need stuff like that.

I'm off to do the next task and hopefully it will be more cheerful.

- library earthling