KoSong: Protect your own Wi-Fi connections and beware of free public ones

How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no

responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Protect your own Wi-Fi connections and beware of free public ones

"The man’s house was raided by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last week, which later turned out to be a mistake. The reason? Department of Homeland Security agents traced a distributor of child pornography back to the man’s home Wi-Fi router.

The trouble was, the man wasn’t the one distributing the illicit and illegal material -- authorities say it was his neighbor, who was connecting to his Wi-Fi network. The agents didn’t have the wrong house, but it took them a week to determine that they had the wrong suspect."

More where that came from:
Five ways to protect your Wi-Fi network from hackers

http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/7737-five-ways-to-protect-your-wi-fi-network-from-hackers

Actually, this is also for my future reference when changing router. Truth be told, I was given a replacement Wi-Fi router which I have yet to use because I am not sure of our TM Broadband password. My present old router can still be used with cable connection, so I am not disrupting it unless necessary!