Correction: The AirPort Extreme card can't. The normal AirPort card
can. Most 3rd party USB/PCMCIA ones can on Macs with the supported
chipsets. And it's RFMon mode, not promiscuous mode. Promiscuous mode
is getting all the packets on a network. RFmon mode is getting all
the packets from ev
I guess the answer depends on where you live. If you are in a house
that is relatively far from other houses which prevents people from
snooping on your net from comfort of their homes you will be fine
with WEP and if you want MAC address filtering (adding little more
steps for the hacker).
A) WEP is roughly the equal of the hookeye on a screen-door. The
designers made some major errors and it's not secure by any means.
B) WPA is far better, but I've read of cracks there as well.
If you are serious about security, you need to run a VPN.
If all you want to do is block casual use
On Jul 2, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Amber wrote:
I just bought a DLink Wireless Router (DI-524). It was actually not
too bad to set up but I do have a couple of concerns re: security.
I am wondering which settings I need to be attentive to so I can
ensure I don't get outsiders surfing or explori
On Jul 2, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Amber wrote:
I am wondering which settings I need to be attentive to so I can
ensure I don't get outsiders surfing or exploring on my bandwidth.
The bad news it, its pretty trivial for anyone to do anything, no
matter what security you set. It used to take 10
I just bought a DLink Wireless Router (DI-524). It was actually not
too bad to set up but I do have a couple of concerns re: security.
I am wondering which settings I need to be attentive to so I can
ensure I don't get outsiders surfing or exploring on my bandwidth.
Right now, in the OS X
