British Lord says record companies are "blackmailing" accused file traders

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: George Ou <george_ou () lanarchitect net>
> Date: February 5, 2010 5:28:12 AM EST
> To: 'Lauren Weinstein' <lauren () vortex com>, dave () farber net
> Subject: RE: [ NNSquad ] British Lord says record companies are  
> "blackmailing" accused file traders

> That Digital Wrong post is absolute garbage Lauren, and any security  
> professional will tell you that.
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> Digital Wrong: “Say, for example, that you get a letter accusing you 
>  of violating copyright and demanding that you stop. You know that y 
> ou haven’t been, and you think that it was probably the tech-savvy k 
> id from next-door breaking into your wireless. What can you do? On m 
> ost consumer-grade equipment: nothing. The wireless routers that hav 
> e been distributed by ISPs do not support strong enough encryption t 
> o keep him out, nor do they keep detailed enough logs to vindicate y 
> ourself.”
>
> As someone who designed IT security systems for most of the last  
> decade and as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional  
> (CISSP), I can attest that this claim from Digital Wrong is  
> absolutely wrong.  Every business and consumer router sold since  
> 2004 has supported security standards that have never been broken  
> when used correctly, and I’ve been teaching wireless security best p 
> ractices for years.
>
> For consumers, the only thing they need to do to ensure an  
> practically unbreakable wireless security system on their home  
> router is pick WPA security with Pre-Shared Key (PSK) authentication  
> using a random 12 character key such as J3sh1NrcZpw2 and TKIP or AES  
> encryption.  There is not a single security researcher in the entire  
> world that has come forward to claim that they could break this kind  
> of security setup within the next thousand years using modern  
> cracking equipment.
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> George Ou
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net () nnsquad org  
> [mailto:nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net () nnsquad org] On  
> Behalf Of Lauren Weinstein
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 12:46 AM
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] British Lord says record companies are  
> "blackmailing" accused file traders
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> British Lord says record companies are "blackmailing" accused file  
> traders
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> http://bit.ly/arD68L  (Digital Wrong)
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> --Lauren--
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> NNSquad Moderator



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