* <gopi_at_sin.sloth.org> on Thu, 27 Sep 2001
| There's only one single encryption key used for an entire network using
| WEP. So every time you remove someobdy from the network (students
| graduating, employees being fired, etc.) you need to change the key for
| everybody. Somewhat impractical, don't you think?
That is another rant, one that I have sort of sat on for a while and said,
"told you so," when methods of cracking the scheme were published. Keys
that do not change frequently are useless. But that is another rant.
| Adaptor MAC addresses can easily be sniffed,
So can your PPPoE authentication, and just as easilly. But unlike the MAC
address, which is frequently difficult to forge, login/password pairs are
trivial to forge.
Such is, and you can't change manglement's mind once it is made up.
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