From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2312531 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:24:40 -0500 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:24:28 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] [OS2Wireless]TPad T60 Connect to Linksys BEFW11S4 - Security Settings Message-ID: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:29:28 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote: > >IMHO, I am more worried about security on the Internet than I am about >security between my PC and the router. It's not a matter of security between the PC and the router. I may be wrong, but I don't believe these keys do any encryption at all. They are strictly 'access keys' allowing or prohibiting use of the router. This bit of security is to keep someone else's PC from using the router. If an outsider is able to access the router: 1) They are able to access the Internet with the messages appearing to be coming from one of my PCs 2) Worse yet, they then have access to my PCs that are connected to the router either directly or indirectly. Carl