WEP for my Friend
Posted on January 28, 2008
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My friend recently got his laptop (a newer, better laptop than mine… T_T), and since his dad and older sister also have laptops and they have two desktop PC’s (three if they didn’t donate the other one, but they thought they already had too much. [You think?!]), his dad decided to buy a wireless router, for at least the networking if not for the net connection sharing.
So, my friend set it up and it work like a charm and all that. Anyway, he remembered that his cousin used to “steal” net connection from thier neighbor by using his mac out in the porch. My friend then realize that he should probably setup a password of some sort, though he doubts that his neighbors are not that smart enough, but then again, who knows.
So, in comes, well, me. He asked me to help him set the, what he calls, “selfish thingy that some coffee shops do”. Anyway, I asked him if he prefered WEP or WPA and I swear, I think I saw something red ooze out of his nose. I decided for him and used WPA. No reason for choosing that rather than WEP, it’s just that it was the first option in the list. I also mentioned to him that this WEP thing works like the American Home Shield, it protects you from those connection thieves. He now has the, ahem, “selfish thingy that some coffee shops do” in his own home and I managed to set up all their PC’s fine.
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its easy to access password protected WEP using linux,..(by finding the mac address of your router and then bruteforcing it)…ahahaha…