Aug. 28th, 2009
Had a strange dream last night, about being at Uni, attending a lecture on some kind of exploration thingy. The amusing thing was that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
carolanne5 was there - she got to the lecture about 3 seconds before the lecturer started talking, because her living arrangements meant that her commute took her through 12 countries, each way :-)
In other news, Castle Fox's interwebz are as dead as the proverbial doornail. Which causes issues for my daily OotP chapter discussion, but I'll see what I can do to work around that... looks likely that the posts are going to shift to mornings, but they should still be 24 hours apart, so people will still have time to read each chapter, I hope.
Comradette K has lent me the DVD to Twiglight. It's sitting here on top of the PC at the moment, and I'm wondering if I dare take it home to watch, or whether I should just pretend. I fear the latter might prove slightly healthier for my sanity.
carolanne5 was there - she got to the lecture about 3 seconds before the lecturer started talking, because her living arrangements meant that her commute took her through 12 countries, each way :-)In other news, Castle Fox's interwebz are as dead as the proverbial doornail. Which causes issues for my daily OotP chapter discussion, but I'll see what I can do to work around that... looks likely that the posts are going to shift to mornings, but they should still be 24 hours apart, so people will still have time to read each chapter, I hope.
Comradette K has lent me the DVD to Twiglight. It's sitting here on top of the PC at the moment, and I'm wondering if I dare take it home to watch, or whether I should just pretend. I fear the latter might prove slightly healthier for my sanity.
Reset your routers...
Aug. 28th, 2009 10:32 amFor those of you with WiFi routers, it's time to make sure you're using WPA2 security:
WEP encryption was cracked a long time ago, and people moved across to WPA.
Now, on the back of theoretical work last year, a team of Japanese computer scientists claim they can crack WPA in 60 seconds.
The attack only works on WPA, and not WPA2, so if your router and clients support it, I'd suggest that you move on up, as it were. And even if the scientists aren't making their methodology public just yet, the fact that it can be done means that it won't be long before this work gets replicated in the wild.
I'm guessing that I'm going to have to revise my parentally-aimed analogy:
Me? I turned WiFi off. Now, where'd I put that tin-foil hat?
WEP encryption was cracked a long time ago, and people moved across to WPA.
Now, on the back of theoretical work last year, a team of Japanese computer scientists claim they can crack WPA in 60 seconds.
The attack only works on WPA, and not WPA2, so if your router and clients support it, I'd suggest that you move on up, as it were. And even if the scientists aren't making their methodology public just yet, the fact that it can be done means that it won't be long before this work gets replicated in the wild.
I'm guessing that I'm going to have to revise my parentally-aimed analogy:
- WPA - that's like parking your car in a dodgy area;
- WEP - that's parking the car with the doors unlocked;
- No Encryption - that's parking the car with the door open and the keys in the ignition.
Me? I turned WiFi off. Now, where'd I put that tin-foil hat?
