WPA Password Cracking in the Cloud for $34

[somanyholes]

This took longer to appear than I expected. So for £20 you now have a high chance of being able to crack someone's wpa key, and download whatever you want from their lan. I wonder what mandelson's response to this will be. Ohh of course there won't be one....

Now would be a good time to start using very long complicated wpa passwords. At least 16 chars!

The cloud service attempts to crack uploaded passwords against a 135 million word WPA-optimized dictionary on a 400 CPU cluster.

http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/2009/12/wpa-password-cracking-cloud-service.html

[Rik]

So that's back to typing the key very carefully.

[somanyholes]

So that's back to typing the key very carefully

We have all felt that pain Even worse when you get it wrong not one but twice.

[Rik]

Or wrong on the confirmation line. We need a gizmo, presumably USB, that generates the code and types it in each machine. Once completed, you reset the machine and all trace is gone.

[kinmel]

MAC filtering turned on too, every little bit helps

[D-Dan]

My personal favourite defence, and cast iron guaranteed. Turn the wireless off.

Steve

[john]

My personal favourite defence, and cast iron guaranteed. Turn the wireless off.

Steve

I tried that but the only difference it made was I couldn't listen to Terry Wogan this morning 

[Rik]

[john]

  Rik 

[Inkblot]

Somebody living near me has an unsecured wireless network, no key cracking required. I have asked a few of the neighbours but they all say it's not them - and it's certainly not me!

[Rik]

I'm surrounded by them... It makes you despair, doesn't it.

[Inkblot]

It does indeed. Mind you, it also wants me want to buy a laptop to see what I can find! A mobile with wifi just doesn't do enough and that's all I have at the moment

[Colin Burns]

MAC filtering turned on too, every little bit helps

It would but if you have a clever hacker that knows how to spoof a MAC address to one thats already on the network....

sadly these days there seems to be a way around most things

[Rik]

Except my stomach.

[Ted]

Except my stomach.

Spaghetti Junction? 

[Rik]

Pasta passover.