I have a wireless LAN and I like it, but my old man is paranoid that someone can tap onto it. I told him there is nothing to worry about but...he insists there is something to worry about because some young employee at work told him this information.

Anyways, this is causing problems for me because he turns off all the computers when no one is using them while I am used to leaving them all on.

I doubt someone will be sitting outside of my house with a laptop hacking into my worthless files....but is there any truth to this "theory" of piracy?

 

well...you put will put a password for that network. then allow the router to only recognize the specific nics that you will be using. then you can use a WEP key thingy ma bob, 64 or 128 bit.


im talking out my ass...i have no idea what those things mean.

 

It can be done if you don't turn on WEP encryption. But all you have to do is go into your router config utility and turn it on and you're set.

If you're really paranoid some routers let you set up MAC address filtering so you can make a list of MAC addresses that are allowed to log onto the network. The MAC address is a number assigned to your physical network adapter and is unique to only that adapter.