-=PCTechTalk=- Re: computer security --- Christy
- From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 22:27:30 -0500
That is one way (a simplistic way) to look at it. keep researching it and
you will come to a better understanding.
WEP has been broken and can be broken pretty quickly now days.
Life is what happens in between plans.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: computer security
> Thanks Bob, so the way I am reading it, WEP is some kind of encryption
> software to add to your wireless computer to "hide" the data and the WPA
is
> like an upgrade to add to that software. I still need to read more on the
> adhoc, I know it said peer to peer, have to finish reading on it.
>
> That is freaky that someone can just sit in your driveway and do that or
> something. I will be sure to ask my brother about WEP and WPA etc..
>
> Thanks for your help.
> cristy
>
> > Hi Bob, I dont know about a hub,switch, or router. I just cut it on and
> >> that is it. It is plugged into my surge protector and into the wall.
He
> >> has not connected my neice's yet to mine but is going to soon. What
does
> >> WEP and WPA mean. And for that matter "ad hock".
> > Response
> > WEP and WPA are a form of protection for wireless computers. These links
> > will probably explain it (definitions) better than I can. You can get
more
> > info by using Google and search for WPA and WEP.
> > WPA --- http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WPA.html
> >
> > WEP --- http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WEP.html
> >
> > ad hoc --- http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ad_hoc_mode.html
> > Response
> > That can occur when some one does not set up the wireless for WEP or WPA
> > protection. In short, using his wireless computer he was connected to
the
> > puter he could see the files on and he could have used their connection
to
> > the Internet for him to go onto the Internet. He could also have looked
in
> > the other persons files and probably changed the data in those files if
> > they
> > were not password protected. He probably could have added or deleted
> > anything in that other persons computer. That is what the other folks
were
> > talking about when someone can sit in your driveway and use thieir
> > wireless
> > computer to use your wireless connection to the Internet.
> >
> >>
>
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