On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:55, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, December 22, 2008 6:33 pm, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote: >> OT: I did away with WEP and WPA2 altogether and left my WiFi open -- >> less hassle, more, er, charitable (for neighbors who want to leech, >> but no one ever does). ;) (For some reason, the Nokia phones at home >> can't connect using these encryption.) >> > <snip> > > although WEP is pretty weak, its better than nothing. i have network shares > that > are pretty open and i am not yet ready to let anybody into the network. > better a > weak fence that i know is weak rather than nothing at all. :)
Ah, I even left my pr0n shares open. Heh. Information needs to be free! ;) It may sound cavalier, but really, it's just a matter of keeping out whatever needs to be kept out. For one, my "sensitive" files are not shared anywhere -- they live off a USB disk mounted on demand, which isn't often. Most photos and videos I have are stored "in the cloud", and my so-called backups (I wonder how long it will take before DVDs bit-rot) are stored in nifty cases. (And we print out the decent ones, too. Nothing like having atoms instead of bits for nostalgic moments.) And my neighbors don't care about WiFi anyway. At least not for now, as the DSL-to-household ratio around here is about one in ten (my very unscientific guesstimate, though). > > and nobody in my block is techie enough to leech much yet use a wireless > connection. my neighbor thinks all computers are good for are spreadsheets, > printmaster is the ultimate graphics program and a flash disk is a hard drive. > :) Oh, don't get me started on Print Master. I used to write love letters in Print Master (and its cohort Newsmaster and Quattro Pro) way back when having 5.4" disk cases were cool. ;) Happy holidays! > > ciao! > > -- > > "Programming, an artform that fights back" > > Anuerin G. Diaz > Registered Linux User #246176 > Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php > http://ramfree17.net/capsule , when you absolutely have nothing else better > to do -- Ian Dexter R. Marquez http://feeds.iandexter.net/Coredump Tired. Just got back from jogging in Freedom Park; stopped by the roadside carinderia for bee... _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
