The real Hustle....WEP or WPA??

LizardKing said:
Your right :)
WPA-PSK with a random 31 character password it would take in the region of 15billion years to crack
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Lovely :D. I only use something like 13 digits though :(. Might have to change that.
 
/Old thread dig up! lol.

Ive been naughty and stuck with WEP for every Wifi point ive setup.
Its just easyier, and everything supports it. Some of the fancyier ones dont support a lot of devices, like my DS for example.
Add to that the average IQ round these parts is that of a half eaten raisen, i cant exactely see it being 'hacked'. :p
WEP128, MAC Filtering & SSID off does it for me.
 
BoomAM said:
/Old thread dig up! lol.

Ive been naughty and stuck with WEP for every Wifi point ive setup.
Its just easyier, and everything supports it. Some of the fancyier ones dont support a lot of devices, like my DS for example.
Add to that the average IQ round these parts is that of a half eaten raisen, i cant exactely see it being 'hacked'. :p
WEP128, MAC Filtering & SSID off does it for me.
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All it will do is deter the casual browser. You might as well just turn the SSID off and forget the encryption altogether. Anyone who has software to find networks not broadcasting SSIDs will doubtless have software to crack WEP.

There was an article published last week that newer software had been developed that can generate and receive enough packets to have 128-bit WEP cracked in under 60 seconds. It really is quite useless.
 
Completely true.
But again, where i live, i doubt theres much intelligence around to even know what Wifi is.
Plus, as i said, WEP is compatible with everything. The others arnt. :).
 
To be fair if a hacker wanted to abuse any old connection they'd find one of the thousands of unsecured networks being transmitted and save the 10 minutes it'll take to hack WEP :p

The only thing you really need to worry about is one of your neighbours deciding he doesn't need to pay £25 a month for BB because he can hack yours for free.

Either that or next doors teenager wanting to download some porn on the sly without using his parents connection :p
 
Phnom_Penh said:
wtf? lol even windows shows SSID less networks, as does NetStumber.
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Windows does? News to me. If it does, there's really no point turning off the broadcast.

Your average user isn't going to be using Netstumbler - although I was referring to people using tools like Kismet when I posted that.
 
csmager said:
Windows does? News to me. If it does, there's really no point turning off the broadcast.

Your average user isn't going to be using Netstumbler - although I was referring to people using tools like Kismet when I posted that.
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It shows hidden networks, you still need the SSID to connect.

I think there are more average users using NS than you think :p.
 
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