Re: How safe / unsafe is Free Open WiFi?

[Patoff <patoff () gmail com>]

Hi,

in fact you need about 40 000 packets with lastest technics and you can 
generate packet trought injections. A normal network with 1 client can 
usually be cracked within 3minutes which include, preparation of the 
program (air crack, etc.) sending packet, receiving ivy, cracking.

Pat


amatachick () gmail com a écrit :
> You're right Nick,
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> You need 250,000 packets to crack WEP. So it really depends on network traffic. It could be possible to send that many 
> packets in 30 seconds on a large network. Cracking WEP on someone's home network would probably take much longer.
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> Amy
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