For security, Airport Extreme employs 128-bit WEP encryption and comes with its own firewall.

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Only use WEP if you desperately need the Internet and have no other option.

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The most common means of protecting Wi-Fi networks, the Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption standard, or WEP, was broken in 2001.

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The WEP supports economic growth and investment in the region and represents the four unitary authorities for Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare.

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Julia Dean, from the WEP, said they were "disappointed" as rail travel was growing in popularity and there was already over-capacity on some lines.

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Unraveling an outmoded wireless protocol called WEP, the electronic intruders spent more than a year and a half from mid-2005 to December 2006 stealing reams of private financial data.

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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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If stories like this one result in more users setting up WEP (and, yes, we know it's not very secure, but it'll block "casual" intruders) on their machines, fine.

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In November a pair of German computer science students made a critical first step toward cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard, or WPA, once heralded as the solution to WEP's insecurity.

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Usually, when connecting to any encrypted network, you have to enter the password for it in your wireless network settings, in which case your software may identify if a network is encrypted by WEP, WPA or WPA2 encryption.

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