[dundee] WPA Cracked

[gordon dunlop]

2008/11/7 James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk>:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:47:39 +0000
> "gordon dunlop" <astrozubenel at googlemail.com> wrote:
>

> Damn. My old Libretto only supports 16-bit PCMCIA cards and there
> aren't any that support WPA2. In fact, there's only two that support
> WPA, one being the Cisco card that I have. Oh well.


You know what really gets me is that he is going to publish a
scientific paper on this. Here is a very secure system whereby
99.99999999999999% of people cannot crack. An ultra-security geek
comes along to crack things so he can announce to the world that he
has done it (so he can get all the egotistic credits) and then publish
his results informing all computer criminality how to do it. This
could make all normal user homes (non-geeks) at risk, whilst before
they were not at risk. Is this really responsible? I really wonder
whether some security researchers are out for their own ego rather
than looking at general public security.

Gordon
>
> James
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