[OSX-Users] Re: $ in WEP password

[Philip Boulain]

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>
>>> 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. :-)

Bloody trolls. ;) I'm old enough to have used Token Ring and Econet, 
thanks, and I've seen a vampire tap. Tapping Cat 5, however, would be a 
pretty impressive feat.

-- 
| Philip Boulain   PhD student |  |\_|\ |   "Study the past if you     |
| IAM, ECS, Uni of Southampton | >o.o < |   would divine the future."  |
| http://zepler.net/~lionsphil |  `---' |                 -- Confucius |