[wplug] wireless vs non?

[Michael P. O Connor]

True, and that is what I am tring to say, you can not have a secure
network if some one really wants in, you just want to make your network
pointless to get into, as I said before be more secure then the other
open networks (not that hard to do these days now) so that the war
drivers will pass over you and go to the network with the ssid's of
"linksys" or "dlink"

> Given the right tools and time no network is 100% secure.  
> 
> > Yes you are right wireless networks are more insecure, mainly
because you
> > don't need physical access to the network to gain access to it, or to do
> > packet sniffing.  I would say a wireless network is about as secure
as the
> > internet.  There are a few common sence things you can do that will keep
> > the kiddy scripters off, and there are more stuff you can do that will
> > keep more advance hackers off, but it is an open network and any one can
> > gain access given the right tools and the time.  I am not saying
don't use
> > wireless just know what you are getting yourself into.
> > 
> >> Is there something fundamental I'm missing in this discussion? There 
> >> seems to be an implication that wireless RF networks are somehow 
> >> fundamentally more insecure than say X.25, fiber optic or copper wire 
> >> networks. Maybe I'm just dense :)
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