August 19th 04, 01:46 PM
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Subject: BPL Powers Off
From: (Brian Kelly)
Date: 8/19/2004 7:40 AM Central Standard Time
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Jack Twilley wrote in message
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Oh, and I get that you're not talking about setting up your own
network in the encryption-free manner in which you describe. I'm just
trying to show that there are many good ways to make wireless work
such that you can be friendly to your neighbors while protecting your
assets.
I use a very simple all-platforms bulletproof "security protocol"
Jack. I don't put anything of a sensitive nature on a hard drive in a
computer which is networked, particulary when the network includes the
Internet, *nothing*. Net result is that my sensitive info can't
possibly get hacked and I don't have to diddle with any contorted
encryption and firewall sorts of pushups. I could care less if this
computer gets hacked, there's nothing in it which is of any pecuniary
or "intelligence" value at all to anybody else. What do I care if
somebody taps into my antenna modeling files, e-mail to N2EY or my
.jpegs of family and such which are in this box?!
Of course in the process I'm giving up a lot of current-tech
conveniences like online banking, online shopping and others. But
that's OK where I come from, my telephone still works and I still dial
around to place orders with the plastic, the banks are still issuing
statements, the post office still sells stamps, yadda, yadda. I have
yet to run into a transaction or an instance of passing out any other
type of sensitive info which was stymied by doing it offline.
Depends on the tradeoffs you make between security and convenience,
I've taken the easy way out of the whole endless computer security
swamp.
Jack.
w3rv
(one of those paranoid computer security types)
(ya done it to yerself Jack)
I still think that these "holes" in Windows are intentional.
And I am with you, Brian...If I need to do something that bad, I will make
the call with the plastic. Otherwise I'll keep Ben Franklin's ugly cousins
working another day!
73
Steve, K4YZ
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