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Re: WEEPING FOR WEP
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:32:36 -0400
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:49:29 EDT, Troy Cregger said:
Even if someone decided to hide in the woods at the edge of my yard with a laptop they're more likely to be eaten by a bear, sprayed by a skunk, or chewed alive by mosquitoes than collecting enough packets to crack the WEP key, so WPA or LEAP would be overkill.
That's one bad-ass woods you live in, or one *really* low packet rate network. Given the recent attacks that can do the break based on only a few minutes of packet capture on a moderately busy network, it shouldn't be more than a long afternoon's work. Eaten by a bear is *exceedingly* rare, most skunks won't spray unless you corner them, and if you have any brains it will take mosquitoes a long afternoon to chew you alive unless you're in swampland. I will however grant you that rabid skunks are both fairly common and bad news.
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