Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:37 -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
>   
>> In general, I am not enthused about PC wireless schemes. I and some 
>> associates looked into these for a police data dump station, and
>> the results were NOT heartwarming; not one method was free from hacking. 
>> Personally, I think that IEEE803 etc was a plot hatched by
>> the NSA/IRS/FBI cabal to easily read everybody's computers by simply 
>> parking in the front driveway and hacking in. It is INCREDIBLY
>> easy to hack.
>>     
>
> True, but it's also incredibly easy to make very secure. Buy the right
> router and wrap VPN around the wireless connection (all the software
> support is in Windows), as secure as you'd like.
>
> TTYL
>
>   
I agree. But police employees are not capable of doing that with any 
degree of reliability.
The possible consequences far outway the possibility of immeasurable 
damage. Imagine
reporters having complete access to secret surveillance image files 
through hacking. Boggles
the mind.

Don't get me wrong, I love gadgets. But unforeseen things go wrong.... 
constantly.

--Bob
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