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Cracking WEP in 60 Seconds

In perhaps the most shocking demonstration of WEP being broken, Shawn Hogan shows how he cracked his WEP key in 60 seconds using KisMAC. Granted, he worked on a contrived example, but it is very representative of the way most people set things up. If this doesn’t convince you that WEP is a bad idea and that you should be using WPA, nothing will.

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