June 01, 2004
Like Father, Like Son
CNN warns that Wi-Fi users are notorious for not enabling the security features on their wireless routers. I'll confess that I don't have encryption enabled on my router. Partly because I need to keep resetting the damn thing at least once a week and I don't want to go through the hassle of enabling encryption each time. Partly because I'm on the 19th floor of a high-rise building and I'm not too worried about anyone hijacking my bandwidth. I suppose it's possible that one of my neighbors could access it and do all kinds of nefarious things, but I'll take my chances. Maybe I can make a little cash by starting my own little ISP for the people on my floor. I'm sure Time Warner wouldn't mind if I, ahem, rebranded their service.
My dad wants me to make sure everyone reads this Krugman op-ed piece about how the Bush Administration is proposing deep cuts in domestic programs in the next budget cycle. Most of my own politics can be traced back to my parents. My mom grew up in postwar Germany (when the whole Continent was shifting to the left in response to the horrors of fascism) and my dad is from the solidly Democratic Iron Range in northern Minnesota. My siblings and I are probably to the left of them on a few issues, but the fact that they raised three progressive kids--in conservative Green Bay, Wisconsin--is kind of remarkable in itself.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at June 1, 2004 08:13 PM
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