Tdoday’s edition of Jon’s Radio pointed me towards an entertaining screencast which shows just how easy it is to attack a wireless network protected using WEP.

The screencast is at

http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/Whoppix-wepcrack.html

and it’s well worth a look (no audio required). WEP may be better than no security at all, but only if no one can be bothered to take the trouble to defeat it.