[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Jules]

On 14/01/2010 16:09, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2010, at 15:52, Jules wrote:
>    
>> On 14/01/2010 15:50, Philip Boulain wrote:
>>      
>>> Ben Hodgson wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Wired Equivalent Privacy. It's the kind of privacy that's equivalent a wire that's connected to everyone else's computer within 150ft of you.</sarc>
>>>>          
>>> No, let's be fair here.
>>>
>>> The hypothetical wire would at least let you /know/ which people were on your network, and not give you a false sense of security. ;)
>>>        
>> You never seen a "vampire tap"? Traditional thick and 10base-2 ethernet didn't let you know...
>>      
> They're both far too young to remember those. :-)
>    
I'm sure I can track down a vampire tap from somewhere to show them.
Failing that, good ol' wikipedia does at least have a pretty crappy 
photo of one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap

Jules

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