On Wed, 9 May 2007, MrMike6by9 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. The object lesson is that WEP can be cracked
with relative ease these days by monitoring packet traffic.
[quote]
Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than
you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break
104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as
little as one or two minutes. A team at the Technische
Universität Darmstadt said that they can grab the key with a 95
percent probability of success in as little as two minutes
using a 1.7GHz Pentium-M machine to do the calculations.
[unquote]
Security Now (found at http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm#89)
has all (?most?) of the gory details on a pod cast (~5.5mb for
a low bitrate version). There also three different trnascripts
and show notes. The subject may make your EGO (Eyes Blaze
Over).
Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
Wayne D. | pay for this, etc. (directly anyway)
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