arstechnica.com — Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two minutes.
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stealthtomatoApr 5, 2007
"...don't be something your not."For the sake of not just nodding my head and pretending I know what you're talking about,My not what?
insovietrussiaApr 5, 2007
Whoa, deja vu.<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/security/Wireless_LAN_security_myths_that_won_t_die#c5866159">http://www.digg.com/security/Wireless_LAN_security_myths_that_won_t_die#c5866159</a>
bkemperApr 5, 2007
@kagelump"you'd be surprisedanything that doesn't display https in the address bar passes plaintext"That is patently false. Looking at the address bar shows you the address of the page you already received, or an address you typed or pasted into it. It does not show you where the submit button is sending your login credentials. The address bar can show http, while the "action" value of the form is https, meaning that submitting the form will submit it with SSL encryption (independant of the encryption of your wireless network).Having a non-encrypted sign on submission for such things as online banking is practically unheard of, even if the form is on a page that was not itself sent encrypted (ie, your bank's or credit union's home page). Most browsers have a feature to tell you when you are leaving a non-encrypted page to go to an encrypted page (and vice versa); that is what people should pay attention to and not turn off. Unfortunately, most people completely ignore those messages because they comes up so often and look so similar to each other.
bkemperApr 5, 2007
Why would you want the sweetness level of your life to be only 80% of what it currently is? Are you on a diet?
superdougApr 5, 2007
mine is idfn56hlol thats not it, but worth a try
techykidApr 5, 2007
In Soviet Russia, WiFi hacks you.
cyber_akumaApr 5, 2007
I would rather not reflash my DS with 3rd party hacked firmware and risk breaking it.
tylerdurden0Apr 5, 2007
f**kin TiVo only supports WEP as well unless you want to pony up for their wireless adapter. That's some heavy bulls**t, right there.Anyone know a way to use WPA without it? That's a double dare!
Closed AccountApr 27, 2007
It's not about just the DS. The entire network has to use the same encryption. Therefore, these people want their DS to be able to get online, but don't like having their computers and Internet connection so poorly protected.