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Friday, April 08, 2005
 

The Feds can own your WLAN too : TomsNetworking :. At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) meeting in Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes. Special Agent Geoff Bickers ran the Powerpoint presentation and explained the attack, while the other agents (who did not want to be named or photographed) did the dirty work of sniffing wireless traffic and breaking the WEP keys.

This article will be a general overview of the procedures used by the FBI team. A future article will give step-by-step instructions on how to replicate the attack. [Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free Speech, Cryptography)]

This is hardly surprising--it's been well-known for years that WEP is totally insecure. That's why people use VPN connections over their wireless networks.
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End Times, Koranic Edition. The United States will be destroyed in 2007 by tsunamis, according to Palestinian Koranic scholar Ziad Silwadi. He is convinced... [Hit and Run]

Apparently a basic knowledge of geography is not a requirement for Koranic sholars.
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