Barefoot in the wilderness
in search of understanding

Gone in 120 seconds

The Register has an interview with the researchers who’ve shown that WEP encryption for wireless networks can be cracked in under 2 minutes. So, to anyone out there who’s running a wireless network and relying on WEP to keep it private, the answer’s in: swap to WPA now. You won’t notice the difference when using it, but it will do a vastly better job at keeping other people out.

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