Atomictumor

I’m a geek, but I’m an iconoclast. To that end, I like to ignore all of the standard geek warnings:
“Use a antivirus, or your computer will melt!”
“Use a firewall, or the terrorists will use your computer to take over the NSA!”
“Use prophylactics, or you’ll have kids!”
“Secure your wireless network, or Mexican drug gangs will download pron!”
“Don’t use cookies, or your Mom will find out about the pron!”
“Turn your computer off at night, or your house will burn down!”

The list goes on and on.

However, last night I went and did number 4, for the first time, and I feel pretty good about it. Casa Tumor has been broadcasting a weak, feeble little 802.11b signal for a couple of years now, but in the process of getting our second computer (named jiggajigga, for those who have to know) up and running, I realized that the east side has grown up, and there are more wireless networks running around unsecured than mine out there.

So, I surfed around on the unsecured signal (in all honesty, because I wasn’t sure which one was mine and which was theirs, but I’m not normally one to turn down free internet) for a while. The internet looked largely the same as it does on my signal, so I decided to bite the bullet and lock down the fort.

Sure enough, the internet fairies now travelling out of the wireless router to the second computer are now armored little death fairies. Woot.

Now, what ever happened to all that talk of a local network, or municipal Wifi, or something cool like that. That’d be a little sweet, if you ask me.

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