{"id":175,"date":"2007-10-19T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2007\/10\/no-wpa-does-not-require-vista\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T12:45:46","slug":"no-wpa-does-not-require-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2007\/10\/no-wpa-does-not-require-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"No, WPA Does *Not* Require Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read today on BBC News that &#8212; no real surprise here &#8212; <a title=\"BBC NEWS | Technology| Wi-fi security system is 'broken'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7052223.stm\">WEP is broken<\/a>. I suspect it has been hackable for some time, but the BBC tends to lag behind somewhat when it comes to sensational news about new hacked encryption protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway my point is that they go on to recommend the use of WPA or WPA-2, both of which are better alternatives to the WEP system of encryption, but appear to categorically state a series of system requirements that, as far as I can tell, are simply untrue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using either of these requires Windows XP fitted with Service Pack 2, Vista or OS X on the Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Using WPA or WPA-2 <em>within Windows&#039; own wireless drivers\/client<\/em> probably requires SP2 or Vista, yes. However there&#039;s no reason one can&#039;t use the driver that comes with their brand new shiny PCMCIA wireless NIC: one that supports WPA\/WPA-2.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#039;t see any reason that the OS used would have much bearing on the capabilities of the client.<\/p>\n<p>From what I can tell, this is yet another example of dumbed-down technology reporting giving the distinct impression that every functional possibility revolves around the basic features of Microsoft&#039;s operating system.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder there&#039;s a monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read today on BBC News that &#8212; no real surprise here &#8212; WEP is broken. I suspect it has been hackable for some time, but the BBC tends to lag behind somewhat when it comes to sensational news about new hacked encryption protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[9,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}