I decided to play tonight

[chcr]

so your saying the neighbors might get suspicious with me walking around with my laptop and a big can attached to my head?

Just tell 'em it keeps the guys in the black helicopters away. They'll leave you alone.

 

[HomeLAN]

For awhile there, I saw one of my neighbors hanging out in another neighbor's garage for about an hour every day with his laptop.

It's stopped now, wonder if he got caught?

 

[Huge]

I don't think I have enough wifi routers in my area...

 

[Gonz]

Happily pats his old, reliable & secure wired router

 

[Professur]

Happily pats his old, reliable & secure wired router

Yeah. You keep telling yourself that.

 

[Gonz]

Compared to WiFi, I will.

 

[samcurry]

prays gonz doesnt find the blue wire i have comming from his house..

 

[Gonz]

Haven't you wondered why your desktop pic changes everyday?

 

[samcurry]

Damn you, damn you man. Now ive got to make a few changes. Off to change my firewall settings.

 

[samcurry]

ok so im back out here again on the wireless. This is great. gotta get some software to protect me identiy though. dont want someone figuring out who i am.

 

[samcurry]

network stumbler is nice. I gotta get the gps part turned on though.

 

[Inkara1]

I bought a wireless router mainly because it was cheaper than the wired. I have both computers wired in, though, so I turned off the wireless part for the time being.

 

[samcurry]

thats prolly a good thing inky. After doing some reading lastnight i even found software to break wep on the fly. unbelievable. The proggies that are free to do this is staggering.

 

[HomeLAN]

Which is part of the reason why I don't go to great lengths on residential networks. I basically just try to keep the neighbors out (SAMMY~!).

 

[Huge]

 

[Inkara1]

On mine I figured, why open myself up to that if I'm not even going to use the wireless part now?

 

[HomeLAN]

Oh, yeah. You're absolutely correct.

 

[unclehobart]

Its why I go to great lengths to run huge bundles of ugly wires all over my house. Noone is going to cybersneak up on my butt.

 

[HomeLAN]

Oh, they can. That's an always on connection you have there, big boy. They'll just come through that instead of your router/switch.

Again, though, you've taken precautions against the amateur/accident, and the truly determined and skilled will get you anyhow.

 

[chcr]

Oh, they can. That's an always on connection you have there, big boy. They'll just come through that instead of your router/switch.

Again, though, you've taken precautions against the amateur/accident, and the truly determined and skilled will get you anyhow.

I always figure (rightly I hope) that the truly determined and skilled have better things to do than fool with my stuff.