Re: Does WEP key give away access to my data to another computer?

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:38:34 UTC, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx> wrote:

J.J. O'Shea
WEP can be cracked in under 5 minutes. Real pros can crack it in less than 2.
I think that the record is under 90 seconds.
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/wep_crack_interview/>. WPA is much
harder to crack.

You failed to say that only a few people in the world--a handful of
hobbyists and a handfull of pros--know how to break WEP. The remainder
couldn't break WEP in the age of the Universe. The odds against one's
neighbors being able to break WEP are astronomically high. Indeed,
there are are so many open networks in apartment buildings that the
odds are that one's neighbors don't /know/ about WEP or WPA or don't
know how to implement it.

Davoud


I can accept that there are probably not a large number of people who
understand the principle in breaking it. But don't tools like this
circulate among the hacker (in the bad sense) community so even people
who don't understand it can still use it. "Script Kiddies".
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