WEP More Broken, Too

From WEP More Broken, Too:

Previous attacks, per their analysis, required from 32,000 to 40,000 packets to be processed to gain a 50-percent likelihood of key recovery. They moved that down to about 24,000.

Now, here's the truly scary part:

Retailers who accept credit cards may not deploy new systems with WEP starting 1-April-2009, and must discontinue all use of WEP by 30-June-2010

WEP is useless, now even more useless, yet retailers are still allowed to use it!? Once again, it comes down to what Bruce Schneier has been saying for many years -- until the cost of identity theft is transferred from the victim back to the responsible party (the credit card company), nothing is going to be done to prevent it.

• Wireless / Mobile
• WEP
• wpa