Protect Your Wireless Internet
I have long stated that you do NOT want to run your wireless internet connection “open” or unsecured. Even WEP encryption is better than nothing. Do use WPA or WPA2 if you can.
Even if you think you have bandwidth to spare and don’t mind your neighbor mooching off of your internet for his/her surfing, that’s not the point.
Some people will use ALL of your WiFi bandwidth.
Some people will use YOUR bandwidth for illegal activities that they wouldn’t use their own for.
I have covered this before so I won’t go through it all again.
What puzzled me in the past was security expert Bruce Schneier claiming that he was running his WiFi open and unprotected. And he had reasons.
Now he’s changed his mind. (Probably NOT because he read my blog, though.)
Bruce has decided that he didn’t want the guys covered in black with machine guns to bash down his door at 3am when it was really someone else who was trafficking in kiddie porn or looking up b*mb making on his open WiFi connection.
So if you were using Bruce Schneier as an excuse not to lock down your WiFi, excuse no more. He’s locked his.
