Live USB wireless connection

[Tim]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:14 -0400, Daniel Y. Zhang wrote:
> The funny thing is in my DLINK router, there is a check box to hide
> the SSID which seems an illusion to the users that hidding SSID is
> safer.

Somewhere along the line some dingbat thought hiding it was a security
measure, and started a cargo cult mentality.  Monkey see, monkey do...

> I alway avoid using wireless connection for important online
> transactions such as banking, ecommerce etc. I do it on my wired
> machines.

Similarly, I distrust wireless networking.  I've not read of WPA being
cracked yet, but I'm sure it's on the cards.  Though it's far from being
the only risky sort of networking.  e.g. Users on cable internet
commonly will share a WAN between houses on the same street.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386

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