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Is there an easy way to have secure IM chats?

I travel a lot and often find myself needing to chat with colleagues back at the office via instant message (usually MSN but sometimes Yahoo). Problem is, I really don't want everyone else in the café using the open wireless...

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How do I disable unknown wifi access on my Mac PowerBook?

I've become paranoid about security on my Mac laptop and just bumped into a story about some hackers who claim that they can break into a Mac laptop via the wifi connection. Yikes! How do I disable the hole so...

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How do I configure a DMZ on my local LAN?

A question about DMZ's: We run a privately addressed network(192.168...) on a workgroup. We have a server running DHCP. If I set up a DMZ on a managed switch I would like to know if a potentially infected (spyware/trojans) PC...

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