WEP Security Alert

[Pazz]

Originally Posted by oast

The FBI demonstration (conducted over a year ago, BTW) used exagerted traffic loads to break the code in 3 minutes. Traffic FAR beyond the norm of a household or even small business. The amount of "normal" data that needs to be 'sniffed' to get access to a network would take hours (maybe days on a slower-moving, average, home network).

Would you sit outside a house for hours (or days) in the hope that the network was hackable?

Not true as it kind of says in the article. The sole purpose of Aireplay is to flood the network with 1000's of packets so that Airodump can capture what it needs. What may have taken days or weeks can be done easy in minutes (normally under an hour).

WPA is crackable the same way it just takes longer. If you want security go with 802.11x or wire

Originally Posted by oast

Then... assuming it was... that they had some information worth stealing? I don't think so.

I would say it's not often the case the someone wants to hack you to find your little secrets (personal or business), it's more like they are looking for free internet or a means to use you connection as a relay for other dastardly deeds.