Here’s an interesting article on cracking WPA. Bottom line, WEP is worthless for wireless security, and WPA is pretty good, if you use good passphrases and aren’t a high-value target.
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Here’s an interesting article on cracking WPA. Bottom line, WEP is worthless for wireless security, and WPA is pretty good, if you use good passphrases and aren’t a high-value target.
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The purpose of wireless security is to prevent your neighbors from using your Internet. That is all. Think about that. It’s like putting a lock on your trash can.
Actually, Trent, it can be more than that. People have been arrested and jailed for what some schmuck neighbor downloaded using their unsecured wi-fi.
Even in my neighborhood, there has been a RSO living just a few houses from me — maybe he’s still there, I haven’t checked lately. He’s welcome to raid my garbage can but I’ll be damned if I let him use my internet connection.
But Trent IF my neighbor FILLS my trash can with HIS trash, then I have less ‘room’ for MY trash.
(and that’s about as dead on an analogy for most people’s use of the internet as I’ve ever seen or heard)
I worked, off and on, with an ongoing ‘slow internet’ connection on a wireless network I set up at my brothers house. It was not constant and so it was that much harder to fix. Actually I never did figure it out. My brother got a nasty gram from his provider about too many down loads. (this is a crowd that JUST surfs and reads e-mail)
Ultimately and because of that letter, I realized that at some point his wireless box had been opened up to the neighborhood and one of the local teens was using his access to download movies / music / ??? that said teens folks must have been blocking.
The speed problem went away when we set up the log in again.