Wireless is Great, but How Do You Make It SAFE?

It's common nowadays to see people sitting in a park and computing, or at their local Starbucks, tapping away on their keyboards. At home, people are taking advantage of the freedom from cables and wires that a wireless network brings.
But along with that freedom come dangers. After all, wireless is really just radio waves, which don't just go between your laptop and your network, they go all over the place, just waiting to be plucked from the ether by someone with just the right device and bad intentions.
This Special Report covers home users. Small Businesses face increased risks that come with an increased number of users with increased access to the businesses' hardware.
The dangers fall into 2 categories - Data Security and Bandwidth Stealing both of which can be solved with the same steps.
At first there was only one provision for restricting wireless access, WEP (Wireless Equivalent Privacy). WEP, however, has many vulnerabilities
Now there's also WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which is newer technology and more secure, if you follow the basic steps.