Unsecured wireless, but secure website, is my info safe??
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Correct.  Your information can easily be intercepted, but because of the encryption cannot be read.
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There are entire books published on wireless security, but here's all you need to know for your home WiFi LAN: WPA2-PSK.  In most cases, WPA refers to pre-standard stuff, while WPA2 refers to the properly implemented IEEE 802.11i security standard.  The PSK is for Pre-Shared Key, which means you will configure the same password/passphrase on all of your equipment.  If your router or access point and wireless interface cards support WPA/WPA2, this is what you should be using.  If you have older equipment that does not support WPA/WPA2 then at least turn on 128-bit WEP.  WEP has known weaknesses (at any key length) and can be "easily" broken.  In reality, while the encryption itself might be easy to break, it's beyond the desire or capability of the average home user.  Try it sometime.  It takes a bit of work.  Basically, I like to say that WEP will keep your honest neighbors honest.  If you are using WEP, change your key once a month or once a week, just to piss off anyone who has cracked your key so they'll have to break it again and they will give up.  WPA or WPA2 will make you bulletproof in the average neighborhood or apartment complex.  Make sure that you choose a decent length password for the WPA pre-shared key.  They can be up to 63 characters long, the longer the better.  Finally, don't forget to use wireless MAC address filtering too.  You put the 48-bit MAC address from your computers into the access point so it will only allow those devices to communicate with it.  Get your MAC addresses typically using the "ipconfig /all" on a PC or "ifconfig -a" on most Unix boxes.  Lastly, change the default password on your router, and disable any type of remote management options.  One more thing, you can also disable SSID Broadcast, but this is not really meant to be a security feature, it's more to prevent accidental associations, and your neighbors wouldn't "see" your network, unless they knew how to look for it.  And of course, nothing is 100% secure, so also be sure to have your computers protected with the latest security package that has at least a personal firewall and virus scanner, such as McAfee SecurityCenter or Norton's.
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Yes. you can.\nWireless connection secure is made to avoid other non authorized people reach your internet connection but it doesn't mean you can't do whay you want.  You will be able to do all you were used.\n\nok.. hope that helps you dude!   good luck in that fascinating world of wireless connection.
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If you are talking about your personal connection at home, you dont scramble it as such... you need to encrypt the signals using the WEP encryption feature (if your router supports it).
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http://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
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You never know what that unsecured network was.  I've done the same thing...found unsecured networks, and I was able to connect to some, and some I couldn't.  Maybe you accessed a wirless access point somewhwere that wasn't connected to the internet.  Who knows.  Also, hotels sometimes have free hotspots for wireless users in the lobby areas, and maybe you were barely picking up the signal but it wasn't strong enough to connect.  If you accessed a pay only wireless connection, a website prompting you to enter a credt card would have appeared.  So many varianbles in your situation.  There's no real specific answer.  Hope I helped at least a little.
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first time for me..but its look interesting, you can hide ur IP and any information from the computer, is it the script base website.. its look like, server/hosting based on it.. like you crawl from another computer...
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Easy, if you can afford to take a lap top in with you which has wireless capabilities use that and then no one would be any the wiser to know what you are up to, since lap tops look like large folders on the desk, well that's one way around from being blocked from your favourite web sites.
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You may be too secure.  Go to..\nTools\ninternet options\nprivacy and change the settings.\nE
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A reasonably good protection can be reached by defining WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) or WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access).\n\nWEP - short for Wired Equivalent Privacy, a security protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs) defined in the 802.11b/g standard. WEP is designed to provide the same level of security as that of a wired LAN. LANs are inherently more secure than WLANs because LANs are somewhat protected by the physicalities of their structure, having some or all part of the network inside a building that can be protected from unauthorized access. WLANs, which are over radio waves, do not have the same physical structure and therefore are more vulnerable to tampering. WEP aims to provide security by encrypting data over radio waves so that it is protected as it is transmitted from one end point to another.\n\nWPA - short for Wi-Fi Protected Access, a Wi-Fi standard that was designed to improve upon the security features of WEP. The technology is designed to work with existing Wi-Fi products that have been enabled with WEP (i.e., as a software upgrade to existing hardware), but the technology includes two improvements over WEP: \n- Improved data encryption through the temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP). TKIP scrambles the keys using a hashing algorithm and, by adding an integrity-checking feature, ensures that the keys haven’t been tampered with. \n- User authentication, which is generally missing in WEP, through the extensible authentication protocol (EAP). WEP regulates access to a wireless network based on a computer’s hardware-specific MAC address, which is relatively simple to be sniffed out and stolen. EAP is built on a more secure public-key encryption system to ensure that only authorized network users can access the network.\n\nYou have now to check what of the two security protocols is supported on all your wireless clients. This is what you can get. It's not possible to run both security protocols at the same time.\nFurthermore i suggest to use MAC filtering. In the router setup program you will find it under the Tab "Wireless" and there you have to enter all MAC addresses of all wireless clients in your network. MAC addresses are printed on the sticker of every NIC (Network Interface Card).\nMost important is for sure you change your router password, so no other person can get access to it and change your settings.\nAnd finally to have running all fine, the SSID (Service Set Identifier) have to be the same on the router as well as in all wireless clients.\n\nHappy wireless networking ;-)
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The risk - Identity theft, credit card theft, viruses, etc.\n\nI don't know a lot, but I do know you should get a really really good firewall.\n\nBut taking a chance to use any network that's unsecured is just that, a chance. So don't put anything really personal out there on your computer. And if you use it, don't go on a shopping spree while on that connection. Your information could be open to anyone.
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If it's an unprotected wireless signal then yes you can leech off it for free internet.  If the signal is encrypted then you will need to get the encryption key and/or password to log on.  but it doesn't have to bee a matching device.
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To make your situation worse, you are currently login with administrative access and has no password assigned to your account. That's a disaster. :D\n\n\nYou definetely want to secure your wireless AND your computer.\n\nsee Linksys website to get general idea about securing wireless network:\n\nhttp://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Content_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1114037291212&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper\n\nHope it helps...
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Here are a few things of interest:\n\n* On your access point, you should enable "Hide SSID" to prevent unwanted computers from detecting your access point. \n\n* You should also enable "MAC filtering" to limit access to specific computers only.\n\n* Do not use WEP security. It has been hacked to death. Use WPA-Personal.
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Unfortunately, no computer network is truly secure. It's always theoretically possible for eavesdroppers to view or "snoop" the traffic on any network, and it's often possible to add or "inject" unwelcome traffic as well. However, some networks are built and managed much more securely than others. For both wired and wireless networks alike, the real question to answer becomes - is it secure enough?\n\nWireless networks add an extra level of security complexity compared to wired networks. Whereas wired networks send electrical signals or pulses of light through cable, wireless radio signals propogate through the air and are naturally easier to intercept. Signals from most wireless LANs (WLANs) pass through exterior walls and into nearby streets or parking lots.\n\nNetwork engineers and other technology experts have closely scrutinized wireless network security because of the open-air nature of wireless communications. The practice of wardriving, for example, exposed the vulnerabilities of home WLANs and accelerated the pace of security technology advances in home wireless equipment.\n\nOverall, conventional wisdom holds that wireless networks are now "secure enough" to use in the vast majority of homes, and  many businesses. Security features like 128-bit WEP and WPA can scramble or "encrypt" network traffic so that its contents can not easily be deciphered by snoopers. Likewise, wireless routers and access points (APs) incorporate access control features such as MAC address filtering that deny network requests from unwanted clients.\n\nObviously every home or business must determine for themselves the level of risk they are comfortable in taking when implementing a wireless network. The better a wireless network is administered, the more secure it becomes. However, the only truly secure network is the one never built!
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your wireless network is not secured you have someone hijacking your bandwidth, at least that is what it sounds like to me.  You need to enable WEP encryption on your router/firewall, maybe change the admin user and password as well.  This should resolve the issue.  To do this you log into your firewall via a web browser using the router/firewall ip address as the url, this is usually set to a default ip address and user/pw which can be obtained from the manual.
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turn them off.\nok more seriously, if you are most worried about outside "attacks" then take all the basic precautions you do for a virus on one computer and you probably want to look into a firewall.  alot of routers out there now have good built in "hardware" firewalls as well which work well.\npassword protect things, encryption.\nif you are running wireless you can turn on encryption and password protect it...though personally i'm against this, i have a real issue with broadcasting something out into the air and not sharing it with neighbors.  call me crazy, my phone is corded and my wireless network is called "free and open" and i haven't had any problems at all.  then again there isn't much on my puter that i wouldn't share with someone anyway or that is worth the effort of trying to get off it without my permission.  and nobody has really sucked up so much bandwidth that its caused me any problems.