Windows, WPA2, and Wi-Fi Security
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Brian
Livingston has filed an exhaustive article about Windows and Wi-Fi security at
Windows Secrets Newsletter: Brian interviewed me for the article, which was
entertaining as we sorted out a lot of the issues about WEP and WPA, and his
article is an incredibly clear set of the best advice I’ve seen on the topic.
Every Windows user employing Wi-Fi needs to read his article and make sure
you’ve done what he suggests. One of the conclusions I reached while being
interviewed by Brian is that WEP truly is dead. There are WEP algorithms in
updated firmware that eschew the weak initialization vectors that make it
trivial for a cracker with free, simple software to extract a WEP key. But
there’s no way a consumer could possibly know whether a given device had strong
or weak IVs. Further, a single network device with weak IVs makes a
WEP-protected network vulnerable. So I have to agree with Brian: there’s no
reliable way for the average
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