Re: On Installing Windows


"kurt wismer" <kurtw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Heather wrote:
> [snip]
>> Is there any advantage/disadvantage to wired vs wireless?? I was told
>> that wireless HAS to be configured just so and that wired might be safer
>> for someone like myself who has never used one.
>
> look at it this way... wireless, by its very nature, broadcasts your
> traffic... you have to have things configured carefully to avoid people
> being able to do anything with traffic they intercept and to avoid
> people being able to access your network resources (shared folders,
> internet connection, etc)...
>
> wired, by comparison, would require someone to have physical access to a
> wire in order to do any of that... physical security is sometimes a
> simpler/easier concept than logical security...
>
You do know that all wires transmit EMF (electro magnetic frequencies)
information and are in effect a mini sort of radio transmitting station
right? Even the 60Hz electrical wires give off a 60 cycle hum into radio
land. Are you aware that someone with the right equipment one can sit out
side of your house and even if you network is wired they can pull in what is
sent along the wires or across your screen. True it takes some specialized
equipment and anyone other then the government most likely won't have the
equipment and anyone that does have the equipment to do so are also just as
likely to not be interested in what is on most all home networks.
They even have a portable faraday cage which looks like a pup tent
stood on end for the traveling business man to sit in and use their laptop;
because of this ability to pull in signals of computer monitors from a
distance even if it is a single laptop not connected to anything and not
even on the web.
That reminds me that not so long ago business started pointing the
flashing little led's from modems away from outside windows because of the
ability to decipher it.


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