it seems like not too long ago that stealing things from the airwaves just
meant recording radio broadcasts of songs about Barbie girls and wanting it
that way onto bootleg cassette tapes but now with details of our personal lives
and billions of dollars worth of transactions constantly being beamed
around over Wi-Fi securing all of this
stuff has become a huge priority for more than just Nick Carter well yeah
lius uh that's what those passwords that
uh clever people put in place over their wireless networks to keep unwanted
Intruders from accessing computers and files on the networker for if you got
one of those you're safe smart guy
actually you're partly right password protection on your Wi-Fi hotspot is a
must these days with some places even holding the internet connection owner
liable for cyber crimes committed through their unsecured access point but
that's also a gross over simp ification not all passwords are created equal back
in the early 2000s nearly all routers shipped with a default security scheme
called we or wired equivalency privacy
and although it was incredibly widespread thanks to us laws restricting
the export of cryptographic technology and some short-sighted exploits that
allowed Brute Force attacks to defeat it quite easily as computing power
increased it was also incredibly weak if
you're still using web it's better than nothing but know that it can be broken
in minutes using free software so this
led to the development of WPA which introduced much longer encryption keys
and tkip or temporal key Integrity
protocol which protected against altered or forged packets and used constantly
changing keys to dramatically improve the security of the web standard but it
was merely a temporary solution since the convenience and cost Savings of
being able to implement it with a firmware update on existing Hardware
came at a cost it reused some parts of
web making it highly vulnerable to breach by today's standards and not only
that but device intercompatibility sucks the big one which leads us to Modern
wireless encryption the one you should be using unless you have some older
devices that only support WPA although given that WPA 2 support has been
mandatory on any device with a Wi-Fi since 2006 there's really not much
excuse for not swapping out that pocket PC for an iPad or something at this
point but what does WPA 2 bring to the
table most importantly the mandatory use
of the AES or Advanced encryption standard an encryption algorithm so
strong that it would take a modern computer hundreds or even thousands of
years to break a 12 character password by brute forcing it which doesn't mean
it's bulletproof though you know that one button WI
setup thing WPS it's convenient for home use but turn that crank off for your
business Network because someone who has previously had access to the network
let's say for example a disgruntled employee Could Break Your WPA 2 Security
in a couple of hours and on top of that
if you're concerned about your personal data being stolen security comes with
you not just when you're setting up your access point because even the strongest
encryption in the world between you and an access point can't protect prot you
if that access point is being operated by someone who wants to get into your
base and kill your dudes or at least steal your banking information beware of
public Wi-Fi networks and ensure that whatever you're connecting to belongs to
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