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August 17, 2005
Secure Your WAP!
It amazes (well..not really) me how many people leave their wireless routers wide open. If you are doing it on purpose for passersby to use, that's cool. If not, your unwittingly opening yourself up to some trouble. At the very least you need to change the password on your router so someone can't lock you out of it. Now that that's out of the way, I have to thank the neighbor of the house I've been staying at for not doing this. I've been using their broadband for many legal activities all week (like writing this blog and reading others). I've been watching a friends dog for the week who lives in the middle of nowhere, or so it seems to me. It's actually quite the booming area with lots of construction all around. It's only about 10 miles from my house, but with the gas prices soaring, it makes sense to hang out here with the dog, whom likes the company and the two hour walks.
I just bought a [Motorola m25] digital audio player from [woot!]. It's my first venture into the portable digital audio world. With my new job and my recent addiction to several podcasts I think it will come in handy. It only holds 256MB on board, but it takes SD memory cards up to 1GB. I think that 256MB is plenty for me however. I've had the same cd in my Jeep for months..I don't tend to change out what I listen to too often. No need for a 40GB iPod. I could probably put all of my mp3's and rip all of my cd's to it and still not even come close to filling it. On top of that, I'd have little desire to listen to most of it.
Posted by mhader at August 17, 2005 12:41 PM
Comments
My WAP is as secure as it gets, but our internet connection has been down for the past week. This comment has been brought to you today courtesy of the WAP ("Wide-open Access Point") at Atlanta Bread Company, the letter E, and the number i. BTW, ABC runs a D-Link DI-604, but at least they've changed their default passwords. :)
Posted by: Jonathan at August 17, 2005 8:34 PM
Addendum:
They also use an actual WAP of an unknown model, but they've secured that device, as well. :)
...and their upstream router, too. Which is good, of course.
Posted by: Jonathan at August 17, 2005 8:45 PM