"WiFi, short for wireless fidelity"

What?

I thought the term "WIFi" evolved from combinations of the words "HiFi" and "wireless". I have never heard it called "wireless fidelity".

After this statement, 3 lines into the article, I knew I needn't take any technical content in the article seriously.

People that don't take the care to properly protect their equipment from hackers deserve to be blacklisted. It's probably the only way that most of them find out that they've been hacked.

As far as protection goes, turn on WEP, configure your access point to only allow connections from specific, known hardware addresses, and turn off network discovery. This is not rocket science. The manufactureres of 802.11 hardware need to do a better job of informing their customers,