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On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:02 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> After putting it off for years, and since my College going son
> has bought a laptop for his graphic artist courses, I went to
> Best buy and bought my wife one of those $499 Gateway laptops.
> Fairly Decent machine - AMD ML32 64 bit processor, but has
> Windows XP home on it. My son's has XP Media edition, so
> now I have let 2 MicroSoft computers' into my HOUSE of Linux ...
> 
> Anyway, what turned out interesting was last night found 12 -
> count 'em - 12 Wireless networks from my kitchen table.
> 2 were TOTALLY unsecured, the rest were reported to be secured,
> but used WEP key with the 5 digit key - and all were
> easily cracked . Example: SSID of EAST1234 and it's password
> was EAST1 .... ANd most of them had the workgroup  as ...
> You guessed it .. WORKGROUP or MSHOME ...
> 
> 
> Sheessss'.... will Winsloth Luser's ever learn ?
> 

It is late now so my brain works not very well. Does wireless security
have anything to do with Windows or Linux or any Os ?

Vu