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Thread ID: 51824	2004-11-30 21:28:00	Wireless Encryption mentioned in PCW	Chilling_Silence (9)	Press F1

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298412	2004-12-02 23:11:00	Not in any of these from my PC: C:\>tracert -d www.dimension.net.nz Tracing route to dyn.dimension.net.nz [222.152.125.43] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.16.254 2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 3 66 ms 59 ms 63 ms 219.88.186.1 4 136 ms 328 ms 152 ms 203.96.122.57 5 215 ms 179 ms 379 ms 172.17.17.5 6 61 ms 80 ms 59 ms 222.152.127.52 7 107 ms 135 ms 139 ms 222.152.125.43 Trace complete. C:\>tracert -d dimension.net.nz Tracing route to dimension.net.nz [202.89.35.251] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.16.254 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 3 95 ms 65 ms 59 ms 219.88.186.1 4 126 ms 58 ms 58 ms 203.96.122.57 5 58 ms 58 ms 92 ms 202.50.245.193 6 57 ms 55 ms 59 ms 202.37.246.20 7 60 ms 63 ms 63 ms 202.50.245.106 8 223 ms 67 ms 68 ms 202.37.246.218 9 62 ms 71 ms 59 ms 202.89.36.3 10 69 ms 128 ms 127 ms 202.89.36.21 11 69 ms 106 ms 65 ms 202.89.35.251 Trace complete.	CYaBro (73)
298413	2004-12-02 23:13:00	Must be an Orcon thing... Strange	george12 (7)
298414	2004-12-03 20:10:00	all this hoo-haa about wireless being unsafe... take some ritolin, mr meany hax0r is not singling you out the story goes that when WEP was being put together it wasnt run through the standard peer review process that almost every other standard goes through at the IEEE, therefore the plaintext sending of keys (ummm DUH!) slipped through the standards checking process. Still, WEP is better than nothing... if you have the patience to set it up, even more so if you are unfortunate enough to have a device that takes only HEX keys (take a bow dlink you fewls) .i is where it's at, with RADIUS passthrough for larger networks and TKIP (temporal keys), AES, and xEAP, tied in with WPA amongst other things. WPA by itself is fairly secure, its weakness is poorly constructed passwords: nothing a good old fashioned dictionary attack can't get through. So, so long as you're using WPA w/ TKIP and MAC filtering/RADIUS (network size dependant) then you should be fine. The real problem at hand is trying to get joe.normal to know, understand and follow that. The manufacturers are making it easier with wizards etc, but the statistics are still pretty poor - to the tune of 70% with default SSID and ~40% with default admin passwords when configured properly, wireless is phwoarsome. but it is IMHO a little premature for it to be mainstream - it needs to mature just a tad bit more	whetu (237)
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