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Well, for anyone still using WEP, this should be a wake up call. Not for ourselves, but which makes you reach out to relatives/friends and help them to move to

Well, for anyone still using WEP, this should be a wake up call. Not for ourselves, but which makes you reach out to relatives/friends and help them to move to a more secure wireless technology.

dennisgorelik 15y ago
Cracking WEP on neighbors' router with malicious intent does not happen often. It's better to use more secure technology, but most of the time WEP is ok. Some people actually run wireless routers without encryption at all (and that was a blessing for me when I just moved into new place and was waiting for few days until cable company's technician showed up).
- andrewcooke 15y ago
  that's why i run an open wifi. because i have benefited from others doing the same in the past.
  - ultrasaurus 15y ago
    I wish more routers came with a setting to share a small slice of your bandwidth on port 80 and 443 openly, with the real wifi access secured. Where I live, open wifi will be saturated by your neighbours' bittorrents quickly (we pay by the GB).
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pyre 15y ago
Most things come with WPA/WPA2 as default now. The only reason to be using WEP would be for compatibility with older devices (e.g. at least one previous version of the NintendoDS could only do WEP for Wifi).
- noonespecial 15y ago
  I'm looking at you, OS X Internet sharing.
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inoop 15y ago
Years after it first came out, I still see loads of access points vulnerable to this ridiculous hack: http://www.kaisersblog.com/2008/07/hacking-thompson-speedtouch-routers-with-default-security-settings-crack-wepwpa-keys-within-minutes/ http://www.kaisersblog.com/2008/07/hacking-thompson-speedtou...
m0nastic 15y ago
As I type this, my laptop (without an external antenna) sees: 8 Wireless Networks with no encryption at all, 15 WEP, 4 WPA Of the WPA networks, only one isn't using PSK (coincidentally it belongs to a satellite apartment to the Vietnamese embassy). I think we're still a ways away from seeing wireless routers configured in a secure fashion.
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  >Of the WPA networks, only one isn't using PSK (coincidentally it belongs to a satellite apartment to the Vietnamese embassy). Honey trap?

Well, for anyone still using WEP, this should be a wake up call. Not for ourselves, but which makes you reach out to relatives/friends and help them to move to a more secure wireless technology.

dennisgorelik 15y ago

Cracking WEP on neighbors' router with malicious intent does not happen often. It's better to use more secure technology, but most of the time WEP is ok. Some people actually run wireless routers without encryption at all (and that was a blessing for me when I just moved into new place and was waiting for few days until cable company's technician showed up).

andrewcooke 15y ago
that's why i run an open wifi. because i have benefited from others doing the same in the past.
- ultrasaurus 15y ago
  I wish more routers came with a setting to share a small slice of your bandwidth on port 80 and 443 openly, with the real wifi access secured. Where I live, open wifi will be saturated by your neighbours' bittorrents quickly (we pay by the GB).
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pyre 15y ago

Most things come with WPA/WPA2 as default now. The only reason to be using WEP would be for compatibility with older devices (e.g. at least one previous version of the NintendoDS could only do WEP for Wifi).

noonespecial 15y ago
I'm looking at you, OS X Internet sharing.

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inoop 15y ago

Years after it first came out, I still see loads of access points vulnerable to this ridiculous hack: http://www.kaisersblog.com/2008/07/hacking-thompson-speedtouch-routers-with-default-security-settings-crack-wepwpa-keys-within-minutes/ http://www.kaisersblog.com/2008/07/hacking-thompson-speedtou...

m0nastic 15y ago

As I type this, my laptop (without an external antenna) sees: 8 Wireless Networks with no encryption at all, 15 WEP, 4 WPA Of the WPA networks, only one isn't using PSK (coincidentally it belongs to a satellite apartment to the Vietnamese embassy). I think we're still a ways away from seeing wireless routers configured in a secure fashion.

pbhjpbhj 15y ago
>Of the WPA networks, only one isn't using PSK (coincidentally it belongs to a satellite apartment to the Vietnamese embassy). Honey trap?