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It's also a diagnosis nightmare. The ISPs in my country used to use WEP with MAC filtering with their wifi-routers. The password was mildly complex (16 characte
by yardie 13y ago
It's also a diagnosis nightmare. The ISPs in my country used to use WEP with MAC filtering with their wifi-routers. The password was mildly complex (16 characters) and on a label on the box. Most users never changed the password. So Joe Blow connects his laptop using the password on the sticker, and it doesn't work. Imagine the same problem for a few million users.
It's false security because (especially for wifi) MAC filtering is like a verbal password that's been written down on a billboard. Everyone can read it so its not a secret.
- nwh 13y agoHeh, even the longest possibly WEP key can be broken in a few minutes with consumer hardware. At least ISPs in Australia use WPA as standard.