Implying your car is as valuable as any information stored on your PC, if you store any information that's of ANY worth e.g: bank details etc on your PC you deserve to have it stolen anyway, not as if anybody would steal information from your PC anyway... comparing your wireless internet to a house or car is also hilarious.Low Key said:Why lock your car? Why lock your house? Why secure anything? In fact, lets just leave all of our valuables outside and walk away. They'll be safe. No worries.LiftYourSkinnyFists said:Who on earth would want to crack your WEP connection...Low Key said:I didn't say that's why I use custom firmware. People like you make me chuckle.LiftYourSkinnyFists said:Do you live in one of these banned countries or actually have a full necessary need to have the software on hand? People like you make me chuckle :3Low Key said:It more about the level of control having custom firmware flashed onto the router. Also, depending on what country you are in, you can use this [http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index] to get around certain blocked sites. Especially good in places like China, or even Australia where they are talking about banning certain sites.LiftYourSkinnyFists said:evilneko said:My wifi uses WPA2. My router runs linux.
Bring it on.
A Linux router's probably nothing special and any modern router supports WPA2... My routers unprotected n+ at 30MBp/s
If you're not particularly computer savvy though, it might be in your best interest to use the preloaded firmware. DD-WRT takes a certain level of command line knowledge. Besides, I can't imagine there will be too many of these bots flying around.
The two reasons I use it is because my router didn't natively support WPA2 (WEP keys can be cracked in minutes) and so my connection doesn't slow to a crawl when I am using a particular protocol.