Re: WEP - how easy is it to defeat?

cmdrdata wrote:
My thinking is more in line with Hank. As long as the casual user
don't have an easy access to my network, I think that I am quite safe.
OTOH, say that I am traveling with my my wifi laptop, found an
"unsecured" AP, and unbeknowsnt to me this was a "scam" setup by a
scrupulous operator to retrieve critical data from anyone that uses
that network, then I'd be in real trouble.... Say this person is
sniffing my TCP/IP traffic and extracting bank account info, login
password etc. I mean don't we all at one or another use the hotel
network or other legit wifi AP to check our bank statements etc.?

There is a big difference between securing your network and what you choose to do on someone else's network.

This
brings up another point that I also am experiencing: my WZC is dropping
 one connection and trying to connect to other network it sees, and
then it goes back to the previous network.


You can try unchecking "Automatically connect to non-preferred networks" in your wireless setup, though I'm not at all sure how effective this is.
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Smartin
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