I'd be more worried about giving my credit card to a totally unknown person (waiter), who than takes this card and disappears with it for 5 mins (making copies, writing super secret 3 digit code on back down), multiply this by 10 to 20 times a week, than using wep on my household wireless Internet.
Don't get me wrong, if I was accountable for someone else's wireless Internet I'd be pushing the wpa also. Unfortunately I have a mix of devices that need wireless access, Linux boxes, PSP's, WII, wireless bridges, Nintendo gadgets, and I like them all to work. I've even had problems getting my wife's Vista laptop to work with wpa. My daughters desktop connects through a wireless usb dongle, to old to have wpa. If I ever catch anyone sniffing or on my network I'll likely lock it down. But I find that having wep lets people know that this is indeed not an open wireless access point and they should move on to any of the other dozens of routers still in "default" configuration. All my banking and email goes through https connections "only", as an added security measure. Someday we'll look back at WPA and we'll be reminiscing at how insecure WPA was back in the day! On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > do you believe in sharing your whatever passwords too ? ever heard of MITM ? > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I believe in sharing my 20mbs download goodness! >> >> --- from verizon >> Thank you for your recent order to change your FiOS Internet speed. >> Your order details: >> >> New FiOS Internet Speed: 20M_5M >> Order Number: 0C6xxxxxx >> Order Effective Date: 09-03-2008 >> >> --Manny >> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Why don't you stop using WEP first? :p >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> So this means that when some hacker is probing my ports he or she will >> >> get a cool looking map of my vulnerabilities. >> >> >> >> ... that doesn't sound good! >> >> >> >> --Manny >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> The New Nmap is out with the ability to draw maps of the scanned >> >> >> network. >> >> >> http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-topology.html >> >> >> >> >> >> List of changes >> >> >> http://nmap.org/changelog.html: >> >> >> >> >> >> o [Zenmap] Added a new Scan Topology system. The idea is that if we >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > I started playing with Radialnet at the last SRCLE meeting based on >> >> > an >> >> > article in Linux Pro Magazine. So far i have not been able to >> >> > generate >> >> > anything as pretty as the example file but it is quite handy. Now I >> >> > just need some way of making it an interactive network diagram. >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
