Q TOM SMITH, MILTON
Is my home Wi-Fi network safe?
A Safe how, exactly? Safe in terms of nefarious radio waves that might get through your tin foil helmet? Gosh, reader, let’s look at the wealth of evidence on your lunatic auntie’s Facebook wall, certainly looks like an open and shut case, doesn’t it? Get out of here.
Safe in terms of your skeezy neighbour finagling their laptop onto your connection and downloading something dodgy? Modern wireless security is not the easily smashed excuse for a protocol that ‘protected’ early WEP networks. Nobody’s getting through WPA2 without serious tools and a fair amount of laziness on your part: as long as your password doesn’t appear in any known hacks and him next
