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Using your WRT54 to secure your email connections

Fetching POP3 mail over an untrusted WiFi public access point is dangerous, as the password is transmitted unencrypted (in plain text). Anyone with a laptop and a suited program can sniff your password right out of the air, along with your email. Sending mails is also impossible most of the …

Dated 2005-10-26 00:00 · networking openwrt ssh linux

OpenWRT as a wireless bridge

I usually have more than one computer set up in my bedroom, a whole LAN segment so to speak. I used to network them together using a 10mbit hub (with a coax connector connected over the (75 ohms television coax) to other PC's in the house because it was the …

Dated 2005-01-01 00:00 · openwrt networking