[ltp] Re: Wireless on A30 (2652 3CU)

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:18:26 -0400


Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> 
>>Then I assume you didn't work for Leeds University hospital.. on last
>>UKUUG conference there, when Anthony Stone was preparing for his talk on
>>wardriving (kismet + gpsdrive), he drove through the city center, found
>>some 320+ distinct networks, about 60% of which didn't use even WEP
>>(however futile that is). Two of the APs close to said hospital were
>>helpfully called Tomography and Epidemiology (plus some number I think).
>>And yes, they fell in the 60%.
> 
> 
> But that's good news: the majority seems to run VPN on non-WEP. That's
> what make sense, not WEP with whatever. Or do I miss something?

FWIW, I run both WEP and a VPN on my home WiFi connection.  For some 
things, I'm also running SSH too, and my IMAP server uses SSL, so 
hopefully, I'm reasonably secure.  ;-)