how to find WEP/WPA key to network if possible
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri May 30 15:41:09 UTC 2008
> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> --- "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>
>>> wrote:
>
>>> That's what some teachers got to do after the Network
>>> became encrypted. They took their computers to the
>>> Administrator and he put the key in for them and they
>>> are happily surfing. Other teachers that seldom use
>>> their laptops, brought it to school only to find out
>>> that they cannot use the wireless network because it
>>> has a new key that they need to put in to be able to
>>> use it. This happened without warning and some of my
>>> colleagues are mad. I do not know what to tell them.
>>> I wish I knew more about wireless networking.
>>
>> While I sympathize with their plight, in this regard, I do have note
>> that
>> were I the networking supervisor, my sympathy would be limited.
>>
>> I imagine that this person would have sent out numerous notices that
>> they
>> would be implementing wireless encryption before doing so...as would be
>> standard practice (I could be wrong...this person may not have done so,
>> but I doubt that to be the case).
>>
>
> Given that a responsible person would have left important passwords with
> someone who wasn't away on holiday this might not be the case.
All too potentially true.
But then, again, if common sense were truly common, everyone would have
it. ;-)
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