Wireless Security

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As the number of wireless routers and access points in homes and small offices rises, seemingly exponentially, wireless crackers and wardrivers are exploiting the endless supply of unsecured wireless access to obtain free internet access, and gain anonymity in their exploits. In most cases, users don’t even bother changing the default access username and password, allowing any attacker to connect to their network and change the wireless settings. Even less common is the use of encryption. Encrypted wireless access would prevent users who do not know the encryption key connecting and making use of the wireless access.
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