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it seems like not too long ago that stealing things from the airwaves just meant recording radio broadcasts of songs about Barbie girls and wanting it that way onto bootleg cassette tapes but now with details of our personal lives and billions of dollars worth of transactions constantly being beamed around over Wi-Fi securing all of this stuff has become a huge priority for more than just Nick Carter well yeah Linus that's what those passwords that clever people put in place over their wireless networks to keep unwanted intruders from accessing computers and files on the network or for if you got one of those you're safe smart guy actually you're partly right password protection on your Wi-Fi hotspot is a must these days with some places even holding the internet connection owner liable for cyber crimes committed through their unsecured access point but that's also a gross oversimplification not all passwords are created equal back in the early 2000s nearly all router shipped with a default security scheme called WEP or wired equivalency privacy and although it was incredibly widespread thanks to US laws restricting the export of cryptographic technology and some short-sighted exploits that allowed brute-force attacks to defeat it quite easily as computing power increased it was also incredibly weak if you're still using WEP it's better than nothing but know that it can be broken in minutes using free software so this led to the development of WPA which introduced much longer encryption keys and TK IP or temporal key integrity protocol which protected against altered or forged packets and used constantly changing keys to dramatically improve the security of the web standard but it was merely a temporary solution since the convenience and cost savings of being able to implement it with a firmware update on existing Hardware came at a cost it reused some parts of WEP making it highly vulnerable to breach by today's standard and not only that but device inter compatibility such a big way which leads us to modern wireless encryption the one you should be using unless you have some older devices that only support WPA although given that wpa2 support has been mandatory on any device with the Wi-Fi logo since 2006 there's really not much excuse for not swapping out that Pocket PC for an iPad or something at this point but what does wpa2 bring to the table most importantly the mandatory use of the AES or advanced encryption standard an encryption algorithm so strong that it would take a modern computer hundreds or even thousands of years to break a 12 character password by brute forcing it which doesn't mean it's bulletproof though you know that one-button Wi-Fi setup thing WPS it's convenient for home use but turn that crank off for your business Network because someone who has previously had access to the network let's say for example a disgruntled employee could break your wpa2 security in a couple of hours and on top of that if you're concerned about your personal data being stolen security comes with you not just when you're setting up your access point because even the strongest encryption in the world between you and an Access Point can't protect you if that access point is being operated by someone who wants to get into your base and kill your dudes or at least steal your banking information beware of public Wi-Fi networks and ensure that whatever you're connecting to belongs to an individual or a business that you trust speaking of trust in being connected on the go freshbooks it's designed for freelance workers or small businesses it's an online tool that's why I said connected and on-the-go and it makes invoicing getting paid and tracking expenses easier so you just go into it on your mobile device and you're like yeah I worked these hours I expense these things blip Adeeb lapa T send an email with an invoice to your customer and get this you can tell when they've read it and then they can pay you by credit 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