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Minimum security. You are welcome.

I’ve been thinking too much about the issue this small. There are too many ways to do it, and I want it off my TODO list. So I chose the simpliest solution ever.

I am talking about the security of my home WiFi access point. It was wide open until now. And I am not going to spend a lot of time on locking it down. I am not going to use any encryption – not WEP, not WPA, nothing. It’s just not worth it. All my sensitive communications are already encrypted anyway (HTTPS and SSH). And I don’t care a bit beyond that.

For the bad guys among my neighbors, who want to do harm, I added one small barrier. I have switched off network address translation (NAT) on my home server, except for my notebook. So, either spoof your IP address and do you bad stuff, or be good and use my proxy server for fast Internet access.

Out of sight, out of mind. I’ll come back to it only if I’ll ever have a problem with my current setup. Life is too precious to spend it thinking about idiots.

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YouTube – the new addiction

I am writing this post to warn you of a great danger. If you haven’t yet been to YouTube.com, please, don’t you ever go there. Ignore all links that your friends are sending you. And don’t listen to any news mentioning it on TV.

I made the tragic mistake of entering the site. And not only that – I came in exactly when I had five minutes of spare time!

It took me less than 20 seconds to figure the site out. I immediately understood what is what and what is where. And then I made my second tragic mistake. I stayed for a few more moments.

I have to say that 40 second into it, I was addicted. After that I lost the count of time. About 6 hours and 2 GBytes later I stopped. For a few minutes. And then I went back. And since then, I always want to go back.

Please, try your best… If you want to stay insane, if you want to have a life, if you have limited bandwidht – do not, I repeat, DO NOT ever go to YouTube.com.