Wireless Ad-hoc on ubuntu

[Brian McKee]

Neil wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Neil wrote:
>>  > I always advise to use WEP. In the Netherlands leeching of unprotected
>>  > networks is legal, while leeching of protected networks (even only
>>  > WEP) is illegal. I do not know how it is in the rest of the world
>>
>>  It is probably illegal here in Germany as well, and it sure doesn't hurt
>>  to use WEP (except it is more work and more error-prone). But it isn't
>>  easy to find out who is the intruder, if there is one, so the legal part
>>  isn't really relevant for me. I normally use WPA2 for my wireless
>>  network, but that isn't available for ad-hoc networks. IMHO, for ad-hoc
>>  networks the only safe method is using end to end encryption between the
>>  machines, like ssh or vpn. Then it doesn't matter if the wireless link
>>  has it's own encryption.
>>
> 
> I meant at least WEP. Sorry.
> I live in a farm a couple of miles away from nowhere and I would
> notice it if someone would be long enough in the range of my wlan to
> crack WEP (most of the data goes over wires), because my neighbours
> couldn't crack it and a car standing in front of our house for a
> couple of hours would be detected.
> 
> Neil

Couple of hours?   Under two minutes is possible.....

Brian

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