On Jan 13, 2012 7:19 AM, "Matthias Apitz" <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: > > El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 07:03:11AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks. I've always heard countless rumors about WPA being wise :) I'll > > take your advice and take a step up in technology. My "stubborn > > conservatism" probably roots back to the time when not all devices could do > > WPA, or at least I had crazy trouble getting things to work. But this > > learned attitude was probably around 2000, which was like a million years > > ago with dinosaurs and stuff. Time for me to finally get with it. > > > > ... > > Concerning WEP ./. WPA: From the technical point it is clear, WPA is > more secure; but there are other aspects as well; we have had in Germany > cases where the WAN IP of the AP appeared as source addr of some kind of > crime (access to child porn or whatever) and the AP owner said: I'm > using WEP, it was not me, and someone highjacked my AP ... and he/she > went home as free person; > > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz > e <g...@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ > UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) > UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
thanks, going to try WPA this weekend. My apartment is not so convenient for drive-by scanners (cant think of the proper term at the moment) but i do have at least one neighbor who appears potentially suspect.. like he might try to hack my ap for fun. Waitman _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"