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Study: Wi-Fi users still don’t encrypt

Even though I live in a country area, I still use 128-bit encription on my Wi-Fi network. Well, actually, I never used any encryption unil my neighbors got a wireless router. That gave me a wake-up call that I should turn on WEP.

“Think you’ve heard more than enough about war driving and Wi-Fi insecurity? Two days of electronic eavesdropping at the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston last week sniffed out more evidence that most Wi-Fi users still aren’t getting the message — or are comfortable broadcasting their e-mail into the ether.” [The Register]

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