PCStats has posted a new guide about securing a wireless network

Ease of use and security tend to be mutually exclusive. So for wireless manufacturers, the reasoning goes that while the average Joe or Jane Smith at home has nothing they'd really care to hide from the world, or that the world would really care to find out about them, they will get very peeved if they cannot get their new wireless router up and running quickly and without help. Unfortunately, the only way to make a complicated appliance like a wireless router idiot proof is to use default settings that will not require the user to change a single settings on any of their other wireless hardware. By extension, this means that any wireless device can connect to said router using default settings. To repeat, this means that ANY wireless device in range can connect to the Smith's new router. Now, if you are Joe Smith, do you have anything you'd like to hide?

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