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New Wireless Security Standard Has Old Problem?
eggboard writes "Wireless security expert Robert Moskowitz, who sits on IEEE and IETF committees on that subject, sent me a short paper on a glaring weakness in the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol that's replacing the weak and broken WEP system well discussed here at Slashdot. His paper, which I've posted here, proves definitively that while WPA itself remains robust and secure, the interface for choosing consumer passwords makes it simple to snarf a tiny bit of network traffic and perform an offline dictionary attack. For Slashdot readers, this probably seems trivial, but because Linksys, Apple, and others are letting users enter My Dog Has Fleas as their passphrase, WPA might be less secure for home users than WEP."
but my dog DOES have fleas...
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
That joke was kind of funny the first few times it was posted on /., roughly five years ago. Now, it's just lame.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
really, I have to re-install windows about once every omnth or month and a half (maybe I could stretch it out a little bit longer, but with increasing issues and difficulties) I have long since abandoned my PC as a platform for any kind of critical information. If someone wants to use it, fine, go ahead. I prefer it if no one were malicious, but hey, i'd just be re-installing anyway. What about my bandwidth you say? have at that too. I'm not using it all anyway. I might be a little peeved when I am playing games, but its not going to kill me (well it might when I am in a game, but not in real life) These are the reasons I love knoppix... a nice clean start every time!
The root password to a rather important machine on my campus used to be "cat dog goat" ;)
Chinese guy, right?
I've noriced that Chinese people do often use for their passwords the names of their favorite dishes.
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