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Poster basically repeated what I already knew. I suppose that means there aren't any better ideas out there. Thanks for the response.
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Poster basically repeated what I already knew. I suppose that means there aren't any better ideas out there. Thanks for the response.

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We're moving into a &quot;fiber-lit&quot; residential building. The whole apartment is Ethernet wired. However, I didn't see any sign of a termination point inside the apartment. I'm guessing the router is in the basement or something. I haven't had a chance to ask management about it, but I have the sinking feeling that we are not going to be able to secure our own router, or even worse that we will be sharing a router, and that plugging our stuff into the wired network is going to expose our computers and network traffic to roving eyes (always knowing that LEOs can see everything no matter what). We'll plug in our own firewall to seal off the LAN. But what about Internet traffic? If someone in the building has a teenage hacker in the house, is there any way to avoid having our Internet travels siphoned off? Or is there any alert software that can tell us when we're being watched? What about TOR?
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We're moving into a "fiber-lit" residential building. The whole apartment is Ethernet wired. However, I didn't see any sign of a termination point inside the apartment. I'm guessing the router is in the basement or something. I haven't had a chance to ask management about it, but I have the sinking feeling that we are not going to be able to secure our own router, or even worse that we will be sharing a router, and that plugging our stuff into the wired network is going to expose our computers and network traffic to roving eyes (always knowing that LEOs can see everything no matter what). We'll plug in our own firewall to seal off the LAN. But what about Internet traffic? If someone in the building has a teenage hacker in the house, is there any way to avoid having our Internet travels siphoned off? Or is there any alert software that can tell us when we're being watched? What about TOR?

Moving into &quot;lit&quot; residential building

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Vulnerabilities

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Moving into &quot;lit&quot; residential building

Moving into "lit" residential building