One of the most important, yet under-implemented features of a home wireless network is security. Many people worry only about file sharing and network printing. But understand many people do not underestimate the need for security or simple. Safety is important because in contrast to conventional wired networks wireless signals transmitted over a wider range and can therefore be picked up easily.

With the ever growing threat of identity theft stepsnecessary to secure your home wireless network. There are some minor threats and the greatest threats to your personal information. On the small side, an intruder can easily connect to your unsecured wireless network and use it for free internet access. This is called piggybacking. These are minor threats to your privacy.

Kismet is a wireless network detector / sniffer which can give you a huge amount of information over wireless networks. Wireless network security vulnerabilities are well documented, but often very difficult to understand for the common person. I'll show you how to install itself with Kismet under Linux, or used to compile Kismet.

First you need to go to remote-exploit.org and download and burn their Auditor CD. (If you do not know how to burn an ISO image that) you go to Google. ThisLinux version does not change or alter your hard drive, it will boot from the CD) to use a RAM drive (on the memory.