It's the classic risk management argument. Let's assume I follow his advice and leave my wireless wide open. A teenager in my neighborhood then uses my wireless to pirate vast quantities of music. Then the RIAA comes after me with a lawsuit because of my idiot neighbor.
Bruce Schneier might be a rich man, but I am not. Dealing with the hypothetical lawsuit would cost me thousands of $$$$ I can't spare, either with the cost of settlement or a lawyer to fight the lawsuit. Too much risk for me. I would rather spend a minute or two entering the WPA2 PSK for my guest subnet in my friend's laptop once in a blue moon. I think that, once explained in those terms, most people would want their wireless locked down. Additionally, WPA2 w/AES encryption and a good passphrase will provide you far more mileage than the overhead of dealing with MAC filtering and a hidden SSID - both of which are trivially bypassable. Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > I can't beleive that guy is a CTO. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
