Why?
Isn't that akin to saying to a girl if she wears a short skirt on a night out she deserves to be raped?
Yes, if the girl is grinding up every bloke in the club and whispering '**** me' into their ear.
people with unsecured internet networks?
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Yes, if the girl is grinding up every bloke in the club and whispering '**** me' into their ear.
Why?
Isn't that akin to saying to a girl if she wears a short skirt on a night out she deserves to be raped?
No. It's not. It's akin to leaving your car unlocked. Someone shouldn't take it, but if they do, it's nobody elses fault but your own.
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If you know your SSID and password, you can still connect to it as a 'hidden' network. Doesn't need to be broadcasting SSID for you to be able to connect to it.
Certainly not, but it's the right way to instigate it.
No. The functionality is there to lock your car. If you don't lock it and it gets nicked, or something taken from it, you've nobody to blame but yourself. Insurance companies tend to agree.
Doesnt matter if nobody is in range of it...
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True, but it's still not worth it IMO, it doesn't cost much time/effort to enable encryption.
In theory I agree, but there still has to be a crime committed for me to lose out, therefore in this instance I would only share a small portion of the blame, and the thief the massive majority of it.
I do not subscribe at all to the theory 'that person deserved all they got' for not locking their car, for wearing a short skirt or for having credit card fraud committed against them.
If you pressed the button on your car key to lock the car, but it didn't press all the way and didn't register, and your car was stripped overnight, would you deserve it?
The fact of the matter is, if you're leaving your car unlocked, your front door open or your wireless network unencrypted - your creating that vulnerability / weakness and it's your own fault, because someone will take advantage of it.
Yes. If you fail to make sure your car is locked, it's your own fault. So instead of trotting off and blipping your key over your shoulder, do it by the car and make sure it locks. Which you can usually hear by a clunk as it locks and see by the lights flashing. Most people do this and notice it. If it does neither and you don't check to see if it has locked, you deserve it.
PS: I'm not saying the person who dives into your unsecured network (or unlocked car) is without blame. Just that if you don't secure it, you deserve all you get when someone does decide to dive in.
I disagree as much as it is possible to disagree.
Yes, there is a portion of blame, but being deserving of it is wholly wrong. In danger of being reactionary I'd also say it is a sad indictment on todays society.
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Completely agree.
It's getting to the point where people are basically telling us that we shouldn't tempt criminals and effectively of course we're the ones to blame!
If someone gets stolen from, they don't "ask for it". The best you could say is they failed to secure themselves... but that doesn't give someone an invite to steal from you. They still decide to comit a crime.
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Agree entirely. The thief still stole, irrespective of whether the car was locked or not. Theft is theft. So what if it's more tempting, or easier? It's still against the law! It might cause issues with insurance, but that's where the world is completely messed up!
As for the OP.
Living in London say there are 100 houses down my street - there will typically be over 80 wireless networks. At least I can pick up about 20+ just from my lounge. So I've set mine up on a low broadcast power (enough to cover my lounge/study and bedroom (just)), and WPA2. I have turned off SSID not becasuse I think it's more secure, it's just one less thing. I've set up the channel on the most different one to all the others. I use MAC addresses just to assign IP addresses as I don't use DHCP but also to authenticate on the network. Since it's just my stuff and the occaisional guest (it takes less than minute to click on "accept") it really isn't a bind to do things like that.
If I was paranoid about security I wouldn't use wireless - and it's only for my iphone and my laptop I use it, all other bits are plugged into a network point.
