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Welcome Dennis! ... and good luck with it

http://www.deviantart.com/view/13332786/

Oh no, not another one

Nice!

WTF!

aargh..phoenix is rite..its no fair to us writer chaps:( Well, look on the bright side ... there's a shadow there ... that's gotta count for something?

A classic joke that never dies

Welcome Giacomo! Nice to see you

A warm welcome to you to28dk! As always its nice to see more danes around here

If thats not a joke you may call me bob ...a few nice quotes that gives it away: (Dunno what otaku is? click here )

I can see you're in a frustrating situation, but cable descrambling is, as you guessed, not something that should be discussed here ... Topid closed

Hehe

Welcome plonk

Hehe, so basicly what you're saying is that all linux users are hackers ... well, I would think thats a bit broad Wikipedia will give you the following definition: Currently, "hacker" is used in two main ways, one positive and one pejorative. It can be used in the computing community to describe a particularly brilliant programmer or technical expert (for example: "Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is a genius hacker."). This is said by some to be the "correct" usage of the word (see the Jargon File definition below). In popular usage and in the media, however, it generally describes computer intruders or criminals. So, how you answer the original question really depends on what you put in the word hacking... Asuming you mean the popular version it would, as said before, it would mean a person with knowledge about computer security that uses these skills for evil purposes... If you then take the original meaning of the word it implies the most elite of all users, the ones with the greatest knowledge of all. These people are the reason technology exists, and should in no way be mistaken for people criminals ... Of course, you might argue that "evil hackers" bring about technological breakthroughs indirectly and thats obviously true too ...

hmmm ... oh well, as long as its not windows ME!

Quite recently actually ... But you're completely right; A patched system would take ages to crack if not imposible ... However, there are still many networks out there with old and unpatched hardware ... Thats the reason I would'n trust WEP anywhere but on my home network ...

I had exactly the same problem with my old comp, and if I remember correctly I think I narrowed it down to being all those leaked Detonator drivers I installed ... So I suggest u try and install and official driver and disable any driver tweaks or hacks u might be using ... And if all fails, a windows reinstall should hopefully do the trick

Welcome m8

Welcome tacticus, I hope you'll find the rest of the site and informative as Aaron's brilliant guide

Yup ... and lol @ joke

Sure, if you want to connect to it, which most likely isen't your purpose ... Your purpose would be to sniff passwords and private traffic, which is quite easy since a WEP key can be cracked within minuts ... Personally I use it at home for me laptop, but thats only because I live in the middle of nowhere and because Im not really transfering anything important ... Anywhere else I would'n trust it to secure my transmissions ... not even those "short transmissions" ... Also, having using a wireless connection not only puts your wireless transmissions at risk, it puts your entire network. If someone manages to log onto your network by cracking the WEP and spoofing a mac he might as well ARP poision all your non-wireless hosts and sniff even normal traffic ...

Well, hi to you too Drew ... Welcome!

Welcome to msfn mr rich! Hope you'll like it here

Thank good one has Tablet PC edition ... And I must say; for once MS made a theme I can actually stand having on my desktop for more than 5 mins ... bravo ms!

I think I would pay something like £20,000 for a 5 min space flight ... Although £110,000 isen't really THAT expensive ... Most people could probably afford it if they really wanted to ...