[vox-tech] Wi-fi issue

[Chris Jenks]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Bill Broadley wrote:

>>   Connecting isn't controlling. Instead of being scared you could do
>
> Actually it's often enough.  Anyone that trusts DNS for instance can be
> redirected to an arbitrary 3rd party with a single luck UDP packet.

But by that reasoning, open wifi shouldn't exist, and that doesn't sound 
very fun to me. I would rather find a way to have secure open wifi, or at 
least as secure as my security needs justify. I'm not saying everybody 
should share their wifi, if they have a cap or something. But what I see 
on the airwaves is that almost everybody assumes that bandwidth has to be 
"owned". As long as we are so into ownership for its own sake - which I 
think is the main motivation for password-locking wifi - we may as well go 
back to proprietary software too, make this a pugod list.

>> like me and just leave your wifi wide open and not worry about it.
>> Excessive worry about security has been draining the life from people in
>> every area of my life.
>
> Heh, being careful isn't hard and doesn't "take the fun out of life".
>
> Could just change the password and see what breaks.
>
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