Unsecured wifi might be contributory negligence

Ian Batten igb at batten.eu.org
Mon Feb 20 11:34:36 GMT 2012


On 20 Feb 2012, at 10:44, Ben Liddicott wrote:

> Not only laptops, but other consumer equipment uses WiFi: The Nintendo DS Lite will only do WEP. So if you want to be able to use the Nintendo store, you have to enable WEP on your access point. There are also such things as consoles, digital photo frames, PVRs etc, which exist in huge variety.

I didn't know that: all the non "computer" stuff in my house does WPA2 (a Pure radio, a Panasonic webcam, a Lexmark printer), but obviously I'm lucky.

ian




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