May 17th, 2007
The Archives
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05.17.07Gone in (just over) 60 secondsAn article on The Register proclaiming WEP is dead. A group of 3 German students have refined the methods and developed a faster method for cracking using ARP packet injections... “So to make it a little bit easier for the reader we can say that 60 seconds are enough to collect 40,000 packets and crack the key with a 50 per cent success rate.” Basically, this kicks down the already shoddy house that is WEP encryption, and really, if you have no need to hook up your PSP and Nintendo DS,you should be using WPA authentication on your networks at least. The obvious ...
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05.17.07No sleep ’til BlackburnI've had a loooong day. My son was awake most of the night with a fever (therefore, me too). We've moved a lot of office furniture out of our studio for storage (how have I collected this much crap in 16 months?!). I've dropped my wife and son off at the airport to go to Spain, then went stumbling around Liverpool with my good friend Jim. He said if you're too tired, leave it. But the chance to log some fresh ground is always too appealing. So we drove round Liverpool city centre, well, he drove, I piloted the laptop. We ...
