Re: Home Network Security (fwd)

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:12:44 -0700 From: Joshua Stanley To: silent-tristero@world.std.com Subject: Re: Home Network Security At 04:50 PM 7/23/01 -0400, Andrew A. Gill heralded:

CERT recently released a list of home network security guidelines. If you know anyone who is less than clued about this type of thing, send them here:

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html

Pretty basic guidelines, but it's better than 3AM calls from cow-orkers.

In the latest issue of 2600 Quarterly, a reader writes in to brag about how he recently drove around his neighborhood with the receiver-half of a wireless camera (a la the X-10 camera... you know, you've seen those relentless X-10 pop-up ads recently) connected to a portable TV, and discovered that many of his neighbors had spy cameras set up in all kinds of fun places. Apparently lots more people than you might think like to spy on other members of their own families... or themselves... or their pets... children... baby sitters, etcetera. And of course, that his activity, intercepting publicly broadcast, unencrypted video, (probably) isn't even illegal. Every one of those people was inadvertently entering the business of broadcast media. -Josh

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Go CERT!

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