On 2 Nov 2006 at 10:43, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> At 05:18 PM 10/31/2006, Bernie Cosell typed:
> >Is there some way to move wireless settings [SSIDs and WEPs] to a new
> >wireless card?  I was *real* surprised to learn that that info is stored
> >per-card [hard for me to image why they chose to do that!] and it'd be
> >nice to get my new wireless card really-working without having to bother
> >a half-dozen miscellaneous sysadmins to re-enter the WEP for me...
> 
> Please forgive me in advance but if settings were transferable 
> couldn't that be a possible security problem ?

In what way?  Two things about this:

1)  Why would having the WEP/SSID settings apply to ALL of the wireless 
interfaces be insecure?  I think this is just a broken choice on MS's 
part.

2) Not necessarily: if that info were kept encrypted in some registry key 
or something, I could conceivably copy it to the corresponding place for 
my other wireless card, and even though I cannot see or change the WEP, I 
could "enable" that network on my other wireless card.

  /Bernie\

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