{"id":10059,"date":"2006-04-18T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/18\/minimum-security-you-are-welcome\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T12:15:08","slug":"minimum-security-you-are-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/18\/minimum-security-you-are-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum security.  You are welcome."},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I am talking about the security of my <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/24\/connected-but-wireless\/\">home WiFi access point<\/a>.  It was wide open until now.  And I am not going to spend a lot of time on locking it down.  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