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Originally Posted by .Hack
Ya'll think someone was leeching or was it just a bad connection that night?
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It's probably a fluke.
While WEP is crackable, it still takes someone pretty knowledgeable to run the right kind of software (with the right kind of NIC) and patient to collect enough packets to perform a statistical analysis and actually break in. Of course, if you have a simple password, a dictionary attack would get in pretty quickly. Yes, WEP is insecure, but its vulnerability is blown way out of proportion. WEP is like a dead bolt on your front door. It's enough to keep out the passersby but not enough to keep out the determined attacker.
If you're using WPA, though, you're pretty safe as there are no known major vulnerabilities.