On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 07:16 PM, Nelson Helm wrote: > 128 WEP?
Wireless Equivalent Privacy This is a way to encrypt 802.11b wireless connections so someone sitting out on the street can't listen in on your sessions. The 128 is the key length in the RC4 algorithm used in the encryption. On my system, I use both 128 WEP and I restrict the airport cards that can connect by their hardware (MAC) number to mine. The latter makes sure a spammer can't park out on the curb at midnight and send a million or so messages through my connection. (They really do this. The scumbags are actually spamming my cell phone with text messages.) The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
