[Wylug-help] Cheap wireless ethernet

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Paul Scorer wrote:

> Do *NOT* forget to put some security on it. e.g. *don't* broadcast the
> essid; *do* use 128 bit WEP - these are not "secure"  but are better
> than nothing. Otherwise the porn police will be after _you_ when a
> war-driver "borrows" your connection.

Why WEP rather than WPA?

Is there not possibly an argument that says you might be on legally safer
ground if it's blatently insecure rather than pretending to be secure.  A
fully open network at least has a plausible defence that it was someone else,
whereas a pseudo-secure network might make people think it was impossible.

jh

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