Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

[Steve Mynott]

Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> 
> > > their Memory Stick is a closed book.
> > 
> > Fine with me. Then maybe we'll get decent short range wireless data
> > exchange with good authentication and encryption.
> 
> and the problem with Lucent Orinoco ( + RC128 )  is?

its totally insecure 

"Although most 802.11 equipment is designed to disregard encrypted
content for which it does not have the key, we have been able to
successfully intercept WEP-encrypted transmissions by changing the
configuration of the drivers."

<http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html>

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