On 5/9/07, MrMike6by9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was at a geek gathering this weekend. One fellow told us of a poor soul who only used WEP to secure his wireless network and someone cracked it and used his connection to download child porn. The upshot was that the owner of network was sentenced to 5 years per image.
Urban legend. The
object lesson is that WEP can be cracked with relative ease these days by monitoring packet traffic.
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