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From: Paul Sture on 28 Jan 2010 04:16 In article <hjq76202o5p(a)news3.newsguy.com>, J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote: > My WPA key is (currently; it changes on a periodic basis) based on the > following: > > 1 the date my oldest nephew graduated from university (and, no, I won't say > which country the uni he was in was located other than it's NOT in North > America; nor will I say whether he was offspring from a brother or a sister. > Good luck guessing his name so you can check the date...) > > 2 the phrase 'clear the way'... in a language other then English. Misspelled. > With sTrange cAps. _I_ happen to know that phrase, and others useful for > passphrases, 'cause a native speaker went to uni with me. So anyone who wants > to guess would have to work out which uni I went to, and from where possible > non-English-speaking persons might have come. Hint: the uni I went to had > students from, among other places, Iran, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, > South Africa, Kenya, Argentina, and Brazil. Please note that many of those > places might have speakers of more than one language. Happy hunting. > > 3 non-alphanumeric symbols of my choosing. > > I have a nice silver-plated no-prize here for anyone who can crack _that_. The quick answer is to use social engineering and/or bribe you :-) -- Paul Sture
From: Doug Jantzer on 28 Jan 2010 09:49 Thanks for all your responses. I haven't had time to actually read them all yet... been real busy. I'll deal with it this weekend probably. One more question. Is there any advantage to just connecting with ethernet? Time-Warner cable delivers a max of about 23 Mb/sec. I have a mini too and a hub and all the wires I need. Plugging in one more wire when i get home is no big deal, but I'd still need wireless to use my iPhone around the house. Doug
From: Lloyd Parsons on 28 Jan 2010 09:55 In article <doug-C4D661.06491828012010(a)reg24.st352.st.coat.com>, Doug Jantzer <doug(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > Thanks for all your responses. > > I haven't had time to actually read them all yet... > been real busy. I'll deal with it this weekend probably. > > One more question. Is there any advantage to just > connecting with ethernet? Time-Warner cable delivers > a max of about 23 Mb/sec. I have a mini too and a hub > and all the wires I need. Plugging in one more wire > when i get home is no big deal, but I'd still need > wireless to use my iPhone around the house. > > Doug If wired is easy, it is the best way to network. My network is a mix of wired and wireless. I use wired for my video streaming to the TV from various sources and it works quite well, better than it did on wireless. I use the wireless for my iPod Touch and other things where wired would be difficult if not nearly impossible.
From: Wes Groleau on 28 Jan 2010 21:07 nospam wrote: > <nospam(a)see.signature> wrote: >> And I recommend against turning of the SSID broadcast. That adds no >> measurable security. It adds a lot more complication to your own life >> than to that of any serious intruder. > > i disagree with that one. it adds no complication at all, but it does > add a layer by being invisible to a quick scan. chances are the person > will find an open network elsewhere and jump on that anyway. It prevents your iPhone or iPod from connecting, unless you (EVERY time) click "Other" and re-type the key. B T D T -- Wes Groleau "Brigham Young agrees to confine himself to one woman, if every member of Congress will do the same." -- Weekly Republican, 1869
From: Wes Groleau on 28 Jan 2010 21:10
Frank P. Eigler wrote: > Barry Margolin (barmar(a)alum.mit.edu) wrote: > [snip] > : Yeah, I learned that last week. I got a WiFi Internet radio, and you > : have to use telephone-style texting to enter the SSID and password on > : its remote control. My SSID is all lowercase, and so is most of my > : password, and it takes a half dozen presses of each key to go through > : the digit, uppercase letters and accented letters to get to the > : lowercase letters. If I had SSID broadcasting enabled, I would only > : have had to go through this pain for the password, not the SSID as well. > > I'd suggest turning on broadcasting for the short period of time you need > to set up that device. Won't work with an iPod. Automatically grabs a strong enough broadcast SSID for which it knows the password. If you want a hidden one, you have to type in SSID and key _every_ time. -- Wes Groleau Thinking It Through http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=476 |