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Surprising Victory for Common Sense

Carol was kind enough to send me a link to “Del. Myers proposes jail time for using neighbor’s unsecured wi-fi“.  Apparently, one of Maryland’s less enlightened State Delegates, LeRoy Meyers of Washington and Allegany Counties, proposed legislation making it a crime to make use of an unsecured wireless network without permission.  Fortunately, the proposed bill [...]

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2008 03 25 JJT Blogging Comments (5)

Avoiding the Pain of the Verizon Actiontec DSL Modem/Router

The Verizon Actiontec GT704WG Wireless  Gateway pictured below is an incredibly engineered piece of FAIL.

If Verizon attempts to send you this for your DSL service, run away from this piece of hardware as fast as you can.  There are two major problems I have with this hardware:

it uses Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for securing the [...]

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2008 02 27 JJT Blogging Comments (12)