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Wireless Password Protection Issues

With laptops connecting to wireless networks in the apartment building, local arks or anywhere in the neighborhood, so have new problems concerning protection and password privacy been created. Operating wide-open wireless networks, wholly unprotected by no encryption technology whatsoever, are vulnerable, as research on the matter says. Trouble may come not only from uncalled users who log onto the network, but even by malicious Websites.

In the center of the danger is the use of the Javascript programming language. Operating wireless networks, usually purchased in stores for anywhere between 50 and 100 dollars, without changing or updating the default factory settings, could have the network taken over remotely through the use of Javascript. The computer is them susceptible to being manipulated and its settings distorted. The risk of losing privacy, giving away passwords by having the Firewall setting changed or even being set up to be redirected to scam Websites is thus made imminent.

All store bought wireless routers are vulnerable this way if not operated in the right manner by users. Routers that were tested, even the popular models from Linksys, D-Link and Netgear, could be messed with and altered. The routers should not be plugged in and forgotten about. They demand care, updates and checkups. Users must make sure that they have the default password that comes with the router changed. It is the little one can do to save one a big headache and possible loss of much more.