Its password encryption scheme, dubbed WEP for "wired equivalent privacy, " was nothing of the sort, and software to crack these passwords has been available for more than a year.

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About 150 crack Microsoft designers worked in stealth for two years on software aimed at putting more intelligence inside servers and applications to let systems work faster.

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Just as Wheeler's software could find all the crimes where the killer left behind a telltale clue, it could crack rings of fraud artists who change their names and hit a different insurance company every time.

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