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[Chong Yu Meng]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:23 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
> How many hackers close enough in your wifi area try wirelessly accessing
> to your desktop ?
> 
> How many hackers all over the world thousand thousand miles away from
> your site attack your server ?
> 
> So, wired or wireless exposes more risk ? :)

Ahh... Vu, from your message I can tell that you are definitely working
and living in the US! When I visited the US all those years ago, I
remember companies on campuses or individual buildings, and the distance
between buildings was far. Anyone sitting around outside the building
would instantly stick out like a sore thumb. 

In Singapore, Hong Kong and quite a few other cities in Asia, offices
are little "apartments" in glass and steel high-rises. Install a Wifi
network and the offices above and below and beside your office will be
able to detect a network signal, even if they are unable to login to it.
Add the fact that Internet access is sometimes hard to get, and the
anonymity of people in these buildings, and the only security being only
WEP, and you have a hackers' paradise right there!

There are a lot of things that are different between the US, Europe and
even different parts of Asia. That's why I now qualify my statements
with "in my experience". I'm not saying that you are wrong, it's just
that in different parts of the world the problems we face are different
and so, our solutions and customs are also different. 

-- 
Pascal Chong 
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"La science ne conna?t pas de fronti?re parce que la connaissance
appartient ? l?humanit?. et que c?est la flamme qui illumine le monde."

-- Louis Pasteur
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