[Chester LUG] WiFi Terror

[Bryn Salisbury]

The question for me is whether or not older units in circulation have been updated to support WPA2. I know that there are still a load of 1st generation BT Home Hubs out there which still work on WEP, and the other question is how often people update their wifi passwords (I bet most provider-issued devices are still set to their factory WEP/WPA2 keys).

Buzz Out Loud did a long segment about Wifi routers a few weeks ago, and my recent (painful) experience trying to reconfigure my own HomeHub made me wonder how many 'normal' people actually look (or even know they should look) at such things?

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On 13 Jul 2011, at 16:10, Michael Crilly wrote:

> Mind you most residential gateways come with WPA2 as standard now (the article was a few years back), so hopefully this will not be as easy to do.
> 
> On 13/07/11 16:08, Les Pritchard wrote:
>> Yes that's a great story, there's a lot of this going on sadly. If you've upset anyone - don't use WiFi :-)
>> 
>> On 13 July 2011 15:23, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've just started reading this on Arstechnica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/wifi-hacking-neighbor-from-hell-gets-18-years-in-prison.ars - quite scary! It just goes to show you what you can do with some tools off of the Internet and some basic knowledge.
>> 
>> This could be a story for your company's website, Les ;-)
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