Wireless Networking Precautions

Unsecured wireless networks allow anyone to view and watch your online activities. If the network is configured in a certain way then these “spies” could possibly gain full access to your computer’s hard drive. Also, with this being said they also could perform malicious actions. If the unsecured network is a home network, surrounding neighbors can leech onto your network and not pay. It will lessen your signal strength (bandwidth). Also, if a criminal act is done by a neighbor using you network it would come back to you if they happened to get caught.

Everywhere we go today there are networks and a lot of them are unsecured. There are not good people out there that know this and they will go around trying to find these networks. Even though it seems like it’s not a big deal, it is. These “bad guys” can make antennas and get your signal from miles away! So even if you can’t see a person using your network they actually could be using it form the comfort of their home.

I got my information from: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Wireless-Network-Security-Home.html

I got my pictures from: http://www.itdojo.com/images/wireless_image.gif and http://www.theiacp.org/idsafety/images/article_images/back_to_school_tips/computer_thief.jpg