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On The Current State of WiFi Security
An anonymous reader writes "A Flexbeta article covers the basics of WiF security. The article mentions mentions various ways of securing a WiFi network, how easy it is to crack WEP, and what the IEEE is doing about WiFi security. From the article: 'In order to address the security issues of WEP and the current Wi-Fi standards of 802.11a/b/g, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is developing a new standard that is called 802.11i. This standard was developed with security in mind. The new standard implements new security entitled Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which takes advantage of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), is easier to setup using a pre-shared key, and can use RADIUS authentication.'"
I read a lot about wi-fi security. However, it keeps coming down to, why should I care? Yes, at work it is important to be very security aware. However, at home, I really don't care if someone is using my connection. If they are doing something that is hogging bandwidth, when I want to use it, I can boot them. My computer is protected and on the other side of a firewall. Information that passes over the router does not touch any storage device. So, back to the question, why should I care? (as a home user)