Re: Security beyond your wireless router...

In article <1193965690.295596.268320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've locked down my network in my home.
However how can you be sure no one is sniffing your network traffic
within your ISPs domain or after your router?

You can't. That's why you use encryption to protect anything important,
such as passwords, credit card numbers, VPN connections to the office,
etc.

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