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So ensuring proper encryption (WPA2-PSK) with long encryption key (pre shared key) is the way to go ...
YES!
But, if every possible password / encryption key is tried, sooner or later yours will be found ...
The only question is:
Will that be too soon . . . or enough later?
Generating long, high-quality random passwords / encryption keys (pre shared keys) is not simple
- here you'll find some totally random raw material ...
Oh yes, All password can be cracked with enough computer power; but then again using a 63 character random alpha numeric including special characters would make it with todays standard quite hard to crack. For Firefox there are pwgen and Secure Password Generator which are two nice tools if one wants easy access to a random generator. I make use of pwgen and uses random password on all forum that I'm active; then again using either Keepass Password Safe or ThinkVantage Password Manager to keep tryack of the pws.
For every measure there is a counter-measure. Use long random passwords, and now you have to store them somewhere. Now your password storage "vault" becomes target - use a popular one, and that makes it more likely that the bad guys will develop a crack. Use an unpopular one, and maybe it's not as strong as advertised - after all, why is it unpopular. I will encrypt them myself? well, if your computer gets compromised, don't you think the encrypted files are going to be the first place the bad guys look? after all, if it wasn't important/valuable, you probably would not have encrypted it.
Maybe you've found a completely secure and unbreakable password storage vault - now you have to worry about the passwords being captured when you use them. With a wireless network, it is not so hard - bad guys have devices called "pineapples" that are battery operated base-station like devices that they will hide nearby and will fool your computer into trying to connect - it will broadcast the SSDI of the network it is trying to penetrate - you computer will say "hey, there's that network that I'm supposed to automatically connect to, and send your long random password to connect, and now it's captured". Now, they can connect to your secure/encrypted network and start probing for other vulnerabilities...
I have a friend who does security audits for corporate networks (essentially tries to break into them with approval from the company). He has not yet found a network he cannot break into. He does not use wifi in his home. Personally, I think it is crazy to give up the convenience of surfing the web untethered because a highy motivated criminal can break into your wifi.
While it is probably true that a motivated criminal with the correct tools and knowledge can break into any network, this takes time and money, and why is this highly skilled criminal going to come after ME? Don't stand out, and you won't be a target. I'm not saying to use weak passwords, and turn off network encryption, etc.., but there are millions of wifi networks out there, skilled criminals go after high value targets... I really don't see what can be found on most home networks that is high value - you're going to go to all the effort to get a social security number, or steal my music or my pictures?
Do you have metal bars over all your windows? The best door lock in the world will not stop someone from breaking your window? Then again, it might motivate a criminal more if I had metal bars over my windows (especially if the neighbors don't) because I must have something of value to have spent this much on secuirty.
I guess my point is we can never be 100% secure. Therefore, lock your doors to keep out the hooligans, but I'm question the value of going much further... if somebody really wants to get in, they will.
Stan
Oh yes, All password can be cracked with enough computer power; but then again using a 63 character random alpha numeric including special characters would make it with todays standard quite hard to crack.
Hold on guys, how has this thread about the Encore, moved to discussing passwords? :) Surely that should be in some randon non-B&O general forum?
Oh yes, All password can be cracked with enough computer power; but then again using a 63 character random alpha numeric including special characters would make it with todays standard quite hard to crack.
Hold on guys, how has this thread about the Encore, moved to discussing passwords? :) Surely that should be in some randon non-B&O general forum?
Exactly! Assuming you aleady have wireless access to the internet, who's going to expend this much extra effort to nick your music!😂
And now in the beosound 5 encore is here...in WHITE :
http://www.bang-olufsen.com/beosound5-encore-white-press
White version looks very cheap for me. Plastic style. Black glass beside white sides: ugly...
Has anyone a BS5 Encore together with a BeoSystem 3 in the same room?
I want to use the Encore with an external drive connected directly via PowerLink to the BL5s. But they were already connected to the BS3. I could use a PowerLink splitter but I am not sure if this works. Could there be a problem when the Encore and BS3 output simultaneously?
I've noticed something that bothers me with the Encore :
On a "classic" Beosound 5, when you turn the wheel, the covers/text turn at the same speed as the wheel, giving it something magical.
On a BS5 Encore, when you turn the wheel, there is almost immediately a blurry visual of moving covers, with a fixed cover in the middle, quickly changing.
Am I the only one who have a problem with that? I hope that its something that will be "fixed" by an update, to get the Beosound 5 feeling, and not a limitation due to a poor processor on the Encore.
On a "classic" Beosound 5, when you turn the wheel, the covers/text turn at the same speed as the wheel, giving it something magical.
On a BS5 Encore, when you turn the wheel, there is almost immediately a blurry visual of moving covers, with a fixed cover in the middle, quickly changing.
I noticed that too. And according to my dealer this
....a limitation due to a poor processor on the Encore.
is exactly the reason....
Stefan
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