Re: [NTLK] What the h...(Wireless:WEP vs NOT) help, please....

From: mark (mark_at_imap-partners.net)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 14:23:31 PST


David Abramowitz wrote:

> As I've discovered recently (props to Zac), Hiroshi's driver
> will not work with WEP and Airport Extreme. If you're using
> regular Airport WEP should be okay, but if you're using Airport
> Extreme, it will not work (not supported by Hiroshi's driver).

Upon discovering this myself, I dropped WEP and switched my Airport Extreme network to limited MAC addresses. OK, I can be sniffed, but the only stuff that is really sensitive is flying around per SSH or HTTPS/SSL or per PGP or S/MIME anyway.

mark.

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