[74968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Okay, I'm just going to _assume_...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Tue Oct 26 11:03:23 2004
To: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:02:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.1.20041026005120.024e91c0@pop.vt.edu> (Rob Nelson's
message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:53:09 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <6.0.3.0.1.20041026005120.024e91c0@pop.vt.edu>,
Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu> wrote:
> I dunno, I can't take a survey of 347 users as anything approaching an
> accurate survey. That's less than .0000001% of the population of
> America.
Actually, .0000001% of the US population would be less than one person.
According to the article cited, the poll has a margin of error of 5.4%;
so we can expect a 95% chance that, for example, between 32.6% and
43.4% of the population the sample was selected from use unencrypted
wireless networks. It is a statistically valid sample size.
In any case, consumer host security is a very real problem.
--
Shields.
