{"id":6953,"date":"2004-11-23T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/23\/wascally-wifi.html"},"modified":"2004-11-23T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T22:43:43","slug":"wascally_wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/wascally_wifi.html","title":{"rendered":"Wascally WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice primer on <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2109941\/fr\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">how to hack into your neighbors&#8217; WiFi network<\/a> (assuming they&#8217;ve taken little or no security precautions) &#8212; and, by extension, how to do the equivalent of at least locking the doors of your own WiFi network.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is nicely summed up in the last paragraph:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Since everyone isn&#8217;t as eager to share their network as I am, it&#8217;s only fair to explain that there&#8217;s an incredibly easy way to keep neighbors and drive-by geeks off your network. All you have to do is set a password that isn&#8217;t as obvious as &#8220;1234.&#8221; There&#8217;s an eye-glazing list of Wi-Fi <a href=\"http:\/\/compnetworking.about.com\/od\/wirelesssecurity\/tp\/wifisecurity.htm\" target=\"_blank\">security measures<\/a> you can implement to block overachieving Russian teens from monitoring your keystrokes, but in real life the only people sniffing your wireless signal are jerks like me who need a place to log on until the phone company wires the apartment. An unguessable password sends as clear a message as a shot of Mace: <em>Go find a Starbucks, creep.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekpress.com\/2004_11_23_daily.html#110106093319827783\" target=\"_blank\">GeekPress<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice primer on how to hack into your neighbors&#8217; WiFi network (assuming they&#8217;ve taken little or no security precautions) &#8212; and, by extension, how to do the equivalent of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12429,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/security.html","url_meta":{"origin":6953,"position":0},"title":"Security!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-May-08 3:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Mary brought her bright shiny new Mac Air with her, and, yes, it;'s very pretty and very thin and all. 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