DS Web Browser in June

Eurogamer reports that the Opera DS Browser will be available in June, though so far only in Japan. From the article: "In fit-to-width mode, Opera uses both screens for scrolling up or down a page with both screens completing the view. In DS mode, an overview of the Web page is displayed on the lower screen and a pink square can be moved around an area of the page. The area you have selected is shown on the upper screen."

Comments

Re:WPA Support

[BeardsmoreA]

Why do you need - actually need - stronger encryption on a portable games console. Obviously when the browser comes out and you absolutely gotta do your banking from the sofa... I guess...?

Re:WPA Support

[Elrond, Duke of URL]

Because that's only an illusion of security. Your MAC is not hardcoded on PCs. In fact, you can quite easily change your MAC in Linux when configuring your network device.

My understanding, though I could be mistaken, is that even when you are using WEP, the MAC address is still sent unencrypted (so you can do things like filtering). Because of this, somebody needs only to sniff a little bit of traffic to find a valid MAC and set their machine to use it.

That said, I still use WEP on my AP in my apartment. My laptop has a 802.11g card with WPA, but both my DS and my PDA only do 802.11b and only support WEP, unfortunately. But... I really don't do enough of the wireless to worry about it and when I do something important there's always a second layer of encryption (i.e. SSL, etc.). And my desktop PC, where I do most of my work, is connected by a wire.