Re: [NTLK] WEP

From: Andrew Smallshaw <andrews_at_sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 15:22:41 EST

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:40:51AM -0600, Dale Raby wrote:
>
> OK, now, barring military grade frequency hopping devices and such other
> esoteric things not available to the public, WEP is simply not secure. That
> being the case, why all the excitement? Why would anyone use WEP enabled
> commo to broadcast sensitive data?

Simple. To connect to a WEP-enabled access point. Sometimes the
decision has already been made and the user has no influence on
it.

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