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[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 00:29 -0500, vu pham wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:02 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> > After putting it off for years, and since my College going son
> > has bought a laptop for his graphic artist courses, I went to
> > Best buy and bought my wife one of those $499 Gateway laptops.
> > Fairly Decent machine - AMD ML32 64 bit processor, but has
> > Windows XP home on it. My son's has XP Media edition, so
> > now I have let 2 MicroSoft computers' into my HOUSE of Linux ...
> > 
> > Anyway, what turned out interesting was last night found 12 -
> > count 'em - 12 Wireless networks from my kitchen table.
> > 2 were TOTALLY unsecured, the rest were reported to be secured,
> > but used WEP key with the 5 digit key - and all were
> > easily cracked . Example: SSID of EAST1234 and it's password
> > was EAST1 .... ANd most of them had the workgroup  as ...
> > You guessed it .. WORKGROUP or MSHOME ...
> > 
> > 
> > Sheessss'.... will Winsloth Luser's ever learn ?
> > 
> 
> It is late now so my brain works not very well. Does wireless security
> have anything to do with Windows or Linux or any Os ?

Sure! Same as ethernet security, email spam assassin, any type of
intrusion alerting software since UNIX / Linux is all about networking,
*if nothing else*. Has been for over 30 years. Why bother to have file
permissions if not? Why have all that crap in /etc ? It's pretty much
all about multi-tasking multi-user networking and security. What did you
think Linux or any OS that networks should be about? 

Even as a gaming platform it has to have file security set for the files
to run at all as a single user and network persmissions for multi-player
mode. Security then, is an issue, to answer your question IMHO. :) Ric


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