Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Jason Dixon]

On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Otto Haliburton wrote:

> I don't particularly have respect for someone who decides to call 
> someone
> else a moron,  I lose respect for them very fast and any follower who 
> thinks
> that it is okay for them to disrespect someone because they are 
> perceived to
> have earned some badge of honor.  The guy maybe great, but I didn't 
> endorse
> wireless routers in my post, in fact I put them down, but he didn't 
> read the
> post carefully and opened his mouth and inserted foot.  Wireless 
> networks
> can be penetrated, but it is not trivial.  You need to know where it 
> is and
> come into range of the transmission limitations to start out with, you 
> have
> to be able to select that wireless network out of all of the ones that 
> are
> up and running.  Cell phones, for example can be compromised, but you 
> don't
> compromise them by selecting a particular phone, you select all 
> transmission
> and throw the ones away that you are not interested in, but you can do 
> this
> because they use a base station for transmissions.  Wireless networks 
> are
> very limited in their transmission range so you can't just say I'm 
> going to
> take your signal, you have to get close.  Someone mentioned directional
> antennae, but two way radios have directional antennae and I can't 
> talk to
> someone in Germany with a two way radio.  So, to get respect you need 
> to be
> respectful, to get disrespect then open your mouth and call someone a 
> moron.

How do you manage to talk so much and say so little?

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
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