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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition
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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition

by John Ross
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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Broadband Security

No wireless network is completely secure, but broadband technology comes closer than Wi-Fi because the service does not share its operating frequency with other radio services, and the service provider controls the hardware at both ends of the network connection. Both EDGE and EV-DO systems use the same methods as mobile telephones to assign a unique electronic serial number (ESN) to each modem and restrict access to the network (and the Internet) to the ESNs that correspond to active accounts. In addition, a broadband connection to the Internet does not move through a LAN, so there's little or no risk that intruders could use a broadband modem as a gateway to the data stored on your computer.

In theory, it would be possible ...

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