Tom Bamford wrote: > Mac wrote: > >> Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi? >> >> And, if you do, do you use >> >> no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2 >> >> with ESSID broadcast / hidden? >> >> > Thinkpad with an Atheros 5212 a/b/g mini-PCI card running Madwifi-ng > drivers. I use WPA (TKIP) and WPA2 (AES) with a nice long passphrase. > SSID is set to broadcast because it's pointless trying to hide it. > Anyone with a bit of knowledge can see you lit up as soon as your AP or > your clients send a few packets. > > I see a couple of people use WEP or no encryption whatsoever. You must > be mad! No encryption is asking for it: not only can people access your > network, but you are essentially _giving_ away your personal information > by broadcasting it in every direction for several hundred metres. > > WEP is not much better. I've cracked all my neighbours networks (7 of > them) in less than a day using open software from the repos (purely a > field exercise of course). It's astonishingly easy to break a WEP > network and it can be done from a wide radius merely by having your > router switched on - you don't necessarily have to be sending/receiving > any data. You might think no-one will target you, but they will. Watch > your router activity LED very carefully... > > http://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=tutorial > http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aircrack-ptw/ > http://www.kismetwireless.net/documentation.shtml > > Tom > > > There are 2 reasons I use WEP. 1. The Wii is a pig to set up with WPA 2. If someone really wants to break in, I doubt WPA would stop them.
It's really just something there to deter people when there are easier targets around really. -Matt Daubney -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
