Well . . .WEP is better than no encryption at all. It's easy to break but you do have to deliberately go out of your way to do so . . .so it will provide some protection against casual sniffing and war-driving since a casual sniffer won't bother to try and crack it and a war-driver will just move down the block to an open WiFi.
Depending on where you live (townhouse or single family detached home) and how much traffic goes down the street . . .with the limited range of WiFi it might be 'good enough' as long as you also use SSL for anything that really needs to be secure. Not an ideal situation and I'm not suggesting that you arbitrarily stick with WEP instead of doing something to upgrade (there are options) but you have to do a risk analysis for each situation instead of just saying 'WEP is bad'. On Jul 29, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: > No joy. I did find an AE Card Firmware dmg that adds WPA2 capability to the > early AE cards, but it doesn't recognize my Airport card, since it's not an > AE. Argh. > ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
