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03 Oct, 2008

WEP is useless. Didn’t you get the memo?

Posted by: Albee In: Geek|News Items

Turns out Visa, Mastercard etc. are finally getting the picture that WEP wireless encryption can be cracked by a 2 year old with a kazoo. OK, maybe not. Anyway, it too a 45 billion transaction CC number theft to convince the credit card companies that a technology that was effectively cracked in 2001 is not safe…

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-credit-card-processors-finally-get-clue-will-ban-wep.html

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