{"id":855,"date":"2004-03-01T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2004-03-01T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T16:50:07","slug":"a-techie-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"A techie question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had to re-reconfigure the wireless network on my return from Jerusalem, since the hotel I was in didn&#8217;t use any <span class=\"caps\">WEP <\/span>encryption on their network. I can never remember how to generate a <span class=\"caps\">WEP <\/span>key and there seems to be no way to save it when I switch the encryption off. So I switched off all <span class=\"caps\">WEP <\/span>encryption back here and simply locked down the router so that only the card in the laptop could access it. Is this really secure? In one sense, I know it is, since it would be a very lucky hacker indeed who found a parking place in range of my network. But I assume that if you had a sniffer and a parking place, you could now eavesdrop on my network, even if you couldn&#8217;t get access to the internet from there.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had to re-reconfigure the wireless network on my return from Jerusalem, since the hotel I was in didn&#8217;t use any <span class=\"caps\">WEP <\/span>encryption on their network. I can never remember how to generate a <span class=\"caps\">WEP <\/span>key and there seems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}