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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1041068" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>WEP is a laughable security measure. It is unbelievably easy to crack. WPA2 is pretty secure. The attacks are bruteforce to guess the password. This is why if you have a long strong password it is quite difficult to hack. If it is a common name, dictionary word, etc one can crack it. Once you make it a sentence with random characters, punctuation and numbers these types of attacks won't work in our current lifetime with our current computers. (Unless you have your own 75k botnet) Check out how long it takes just to find Mercedes.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYgqt4Kj68" target="_blank">YouTube - crack wpa2 easily with crack-wpa.fr</a></p><p></p><p>Anyway I do have a G4 mac mini and it does connect to WPA2. </p><p></p><p>Which dlink? Most modern routers use a web based interface so anything would work. If it is a install file you may need run it on the PC. For example my netgear can be setup by any OS including linux.</p><p></p><p>The longer and more random and more charcters, capitalization, and numbers you use the better off you are. </p><p></p><p>For the PC run an all in one like Symantec - so you have firewall, malware, virus protection. For the macs if you are paranoid turn on a firewall. I have mine on but I am paranoid. </p><p></p><p>The way facebook got hacked is probably packet sniffing. So unless someone cracks your wpa2 network you don't have to worry much. If someone is on your network they can packet sniff and anyting you send over the web can be sniffed. If you want there are ways to sign into facebook like you would for your bank using SSL like a firefox add on.</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=facebook+secure+login" target="_blank">facebook secure login - Google Search</a></p><p>This also goes to show - if you are on an open network - don't log into anything that isn't https/SSL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1041068, member: 145676"] WEP is a laughable security measure. It is unbelievably easy to crack. WPA2 is pretty secure. The attacks are bruteforce to guess the password. This is why if you have a long strong password it is quite difficult to hack. If it is a common name, dictionary word, etc one can crack it. Once you make it a sentence with random characters, punctuation and numbers these types of attacks won't work in our current lifetime with our current computers. (Unless you have your own 75k botnet) Check out how long it takes just to find Mercedes. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYgqt4Kj68]YouTube - crack wpa2 easily with crack-wpa.fr[/url] Anyway I do have a G4 mac mini and it does connect to WPA2. Which dlink? Most modern routers use a web based interface so anything would work. If it is a install file you may need run it on the PC. For example my netgear can be setup by any OS including linux. The longer and more random and more charcters, capitalization, and numbers you use the better off you are. For the PC run an all in one like Symantec - so you have firewall, malware, virus protection. For the macs if you are paranoid turn on a firewall. I have mine on but I am paranoid. The way facebook got hacked is probably packet sniffing. So unless someone cracks your wpa2 network you don't have to worry much. If someone is on your network they can packet sniff and anyting you send over the web can be sniffed. If you want there are ways to sign into facebook like you would for your bank using SSL like a firefox add on. [url=http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=facebook+secure+login]facebook secure login - Google Search[/url] This also goes to show - if you are on an open network - don't log into anything that isn't https/SSL. [/QUOTE]
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