First and foremost, I've read about WPA being more secure than WEP. WEP was found to be easily breakable on a high end machine. How long would it take a determined attacker to decrypt WPA crypted communications? After all, I'd heard that the art of security isn't about keeping unauthorized users out, but how hard do you wanna make it for people to break in. Furthermore, assuming all basic precautions are taken and WPA are enabled, what are the chances of someone entering the wireless network?
As far as wireless hijack goes, how many incidents have emerged where hackers used an insecured WAP to do criminal activities (thus being traced back to the WAP's owner). A salesperson claimed that it's almost never happened and that you've got logs (assuming you keep them stored somewhere) and that when the feds come "Hey, I didn't do it. I had this router open, somebody else did it." Quite frankly, that statement made little sense to me. Many people live in apartments, one can sit in a local car's park, etc (thus not drawing suspicion by sitting in front of a house). This has been one of my concerns for setting up a wireless network at home.
As far as wireless hijack goes, how many incidents have emerged where hackers used an insecured WAP to do criminal activities (thus being traced back to the WAP's owner). A salesperson claimed that it's almost never happened and that you've got logs (assuming you keep them stored somewhere) and that when the feds come "Hey, I didn't do it. I had this router open, somebody else did it." Quite frankly, that statement made little sense to me. Many people live in apartments, one can sit in a local car's park, etc (thus not drawing suspicion by sitting in front of a house). This has been one of my concerns for setting up a wireless network at home.
