Re: Question about internet security.
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I recently moved. In my new apartment it is possible to pick up someone else's wireless internet. Since we are poor college students we decided not to pay for internet and just use the neighbor's network. My question is this: is it possible for this to be a security risk? My entire (meager) bankroll is online and I would hate to have to rebuild it. I have all the usual security on my laptop: Adaware, spybot, zonealarm etc, if that makes a difference. Any help / advice is appreciated.
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Yes, it's possible. Anyone near you can pick up wireless packets. I assume there's no WEP (which is crackable anyway) since you just automatically connect, so the wireless signal isn't being encrypted at a low layer. You will be relying on the encryption of the poker client program itself, I'd assume most clients encrypt data, but I'd check and see for myself before I sent that traffic over wireless, and I'd also wanna know what kind of encryption the client uses..
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