Re: [NTLK] Wireless driver

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> ... except that I had to disable WEP on the airport base station
> which I'm not fond of.

WEP actually is very vulnerable
(http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-draft.pdf) and WiFi has
already started working on a new standard (802.11i, WPA) to protect the
wireless traffic. An implementation of the attacks can be found here:
http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/dwepcrack.html

But yes, enabling WEP prevents any Sunday surfer from accessing your
network but it doesn't prevent cold blooded professional.

Harri

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