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<blockquote data-quote="pimbanelas" data-source="post: 423094" data-attributes="member: 263453"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">Just for your information:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">For the ones that are thinking of installing a local WLAN.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">There is NO way to install a completely secure Wireless Internet Connection!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">But if you want to install one be sure to use a router system with active firewalls that close communications between wifi clients and your home PC.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">One of the simplest, and most effective ways to protect your local WLAN is to disable the broadcast of your SSID, but even with no SSID an experienced hacker can find it's way around.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: black">The </span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> system needs some work on its configuration, but probably the solution goes trough configuring the router to allow access only to specific wifi clients MAC addresses.... that and disabling the broadcast SSID and applying and ordinary encryption (do not use WEP, it a week protection system that anybody with a simple LINUX operating system can hack in to), will be very dificult to hack... </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">But, with a big effort, it's possible....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pimbanelas, post: 423094, member: 263453"] [COLOR=black][COLOR=black]Just for your information:[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]For the ones that are thinking of installing a local WLAN.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]There is NO way to install a completely secure Wireless Internet Connection![/COLOR] [COLOR=black]But if you want to install one be sure to use a router system with active firewalls that close communications between wifi clients and your home PC.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]One of the simplest, and most effective ways to protect your local WLAN is to disable the broadcast of your SSID, but even with no SSID an experienced hacker can find it's way around.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=black]The [/COLOR][B][/B][/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=black][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] system needs some work on its configuration, but probably the solution goes trough configuring the router to allow access only to specific wifi clients MAC addresses.... that and disabling the broadcast SSID and applying and ordinary encryption (do not use WEP, it a week protection system that anybody with a simple LINUX operating system can hack in to), will be very dificult to hack... [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=black][FONT=Calibri]But, with a big effort, it's possible....[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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