“Umm…” Conversations that start that way are never good ones. This was going to be no exception. “No one can log in. Is something wrong with the server?” Apparently, there was. It was late 2000, and I was pretty much on my own when it comes to technology in the district. My predecessor had hired a network consultant eighteen months earlier to set up the … Continue reading No One to Call

I was a few minutes early picking up my daughter, so I parked my car on the street in the residential neighborhood and pulled out the eeePC. There were four wireless access points in range, only one of which was secure. It would have been easy to connect to the unsecured networks. If file sharing were enabled on any of the computers in the house, … Continue reading Securing Wireless Networks