Showing posts with label wifi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wifi. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

WEP pwn'age... what's next?

After all these years of known vulnerabilities with the technology, I'm still flippin' amazed the percentage of deployed, neighborhood 802.11b/g wireless access points that STILL have WEP encryption enabled. Not saying that WPA-TSIP-PSK is much better (well, if you've got a super, stellar dictionary/phrase list) but... what this oversight gives me is two things:

1) Entertainment for a very short period of time in 20 minute increments...
2) A very big 'network' to explore, play with and hide behind...

I can't give myself all the credit; `aircrack-ng` is a pretty slick tool.

However, just tonight, I've pwn'ed the last WEP-enabled access point on my block... well, all the ones I can reach without using my 20dbi gain omni antenna poking out my basement window ;-) ...now all that is left is burning my braincells watching television and reading slashdot.