Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Riding in the cold, and some more thoughts on routers...

It was 26 degrees when I got up this morning, and we were going motorcycling...?   So I put on long sweat pants under my jeans....  And three shirts.....

And it was still darned cold at 50 miles an hour....  The good thing is that we were only going over to Belton, Mo about 15 miles away...  Seemed like we stood around out in the parking lot before they opened for forever...

This was Snead's Bar B Que, and they had quite the turnout...  Many folks brought their wives, as this was the Christmas luncheon...  Pulled Pork Sandwich with overly greasy fries and a diet coke....  The sandwich was good, and I managed to give some of the fries away...

Al and I took a long way around coming home, and sat in a McDonalds until 3 in the afternoon....  By then it was 50 degrees, which is still rather brisk at speed...

We are just nutty enough to take off again tomorrow..  The Eastern Kansas group is meeting in a small town South of Topeka....  This will be a different bunch of our bandits from here in Kansas, so we will get to do Christmas Lunch all over again...  I think there will be a number of the same guys that went today as well.

From there on, the weather is supposed to go to rain and then snow and ice....  That will stretch right up to Christmas day, so the bike will have to be put up for the rest of the time I will be here.......  I got Al to agree to that, for now anyway...

Several folks remarked about neighbor's WIFI routers without security...  I never understand why folks would do that because folks like me can log right onto their access points and change the programming...  I can see when they are loged onto their own routers...  I could even kick them off of their own routers....

I could start up security on their routers with access names and secure passwords that they wouldn't  know....  At that point they wouldn't even understand where their router went to...  It would look like another neighbors machine...

Even if you decide not to make your router secure, please change the SSID to something of your own invention, and set the password to something an intruder couldn't guess....

Here in Kansas, there is a guy that has his SSID set to "I see your files"......  And down in Arizona I find a router called "Free Virus."  What a scream!

I think now days, that most MIFIs come with a unique SSID and a preset pass code...  So you don't have to learn how to program it....  The most compelling reason for this is that intruders can get right on your machines and look at everything you have stored.....

Retired Rod

6 comments:

  1. Something strange was going on trying to comment on your blog this morning, I posted a comment about routers and security, hit the publish button and nothing--no comment, no screen to tell me to enter my Google password again, nothing. So, I tried again with the "test comment" and got a screen telling me to enter my Google password???

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    1. Since I have anonymous comments turned off, perhaps you weren't loged into your google ID and therefore it didn't want to let you comment... That was why it wanted you to enter your google password as it was trying to re log you into your account.... Once it knew that you were you, then you could proceed.... Wouldn't it be easier if everyone played nice and we didn't have to go thru all of this junk.....?

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  2. You are truly nuts. But having fun makes it all worth while. I think. That's a whole lot of cold. There was a SSID in Helena near us that was Get Yo Own WIFI. Loved it.

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  3. I think I'll change my SSID to NSA and my password to Snowden! That might make folks pause a bit.

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  4. Glad you can enjoy riding up until the snow flies. Be careful though.

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  5. I don't broadcast my SSID, as well as giving it another name. You may see that there is a signal (or not, depending), but you have to guess both the SSID and the PW to get in. However, I know I'm still not hacker proof.

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