Just a quick question

jkman · Apr 1, 2015

I had to reset my router once and it removed the wireless security encryption and password. I live in a house with houses spaced a good amount apart. My neighbors are all old and wouldn't try to connect to my router and they have their own wireless connection. So my question is, do I need wifi encryption if I don't have to worry about outsiders connecting? Also, would I be more vulnerable to malicious attacks via internet if I didn't have one?

chaslang · Apr 2, 2015

Your signals will extend beyond your house and anyone passing by or in the neighborhood can connect into them and steal information from you. If you do not care about anything on your PC being seen by anyone else and this would have to mean you never perform any kind of financial transactions ( banking, credit card purchases, taxes,.....etct...etc ), and you don't even care about your emails possibly being read. And no one else ever comes to your house and uses your unsecured internet connection and no one uses it for wifi for phones, tablet and so on ( this list goes on and on). Then feel free to leave your network unsecure. Basically the hackers will love you.

Oh and by the way, you also expose yourself to the danger that a hacker could perform undesirable things from your network. Possibly illegal things that will be traced back to your home network. Guess who will be held accountable?

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Just a quick question

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