Wireless best practices

[JT Moree]

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Joseph Sinclair wrote:
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> 4) Do all sensitive tasks (financial, sensitive personal information, home video surveillance, etc...) from a machine with a wired connection only, preferably behind a second firewall to protect it from the wireless network.

all sensitive tasks should be done over ssl if possible.  whether
wireless or not.  I always use my own machine.  I never trust putting
sensitive info into some other machine.  And I check to make sure there
is an ssl connection as I use such info.

But I dont worry about using a wireless connection because I treat every
machine on my (very small) network as an island.  Each runs a firewall
and all sit behind the linksys router.  Effectively I treat my network
as an extension of the Internet when it comes to security.  I send
nothing in the clear--ever.  I also dont have windows machines to worry
about so that helps.

That's just how I do it.  There are other ways.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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