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WEP Wireless Network Hack

1 replies · 10,134 views · Started 04 July 2007

I know there are various applications out there like Airsnort, KisMet, KisMac etc that can hack the WEP key of a wifi network in minutes. The question is though, is there a bit of software that will run on the N95 (or any symbian 60 OS phone with wi-fi) that will do the same job as the PC or Linux based equivalents?

Would be interesting to know if we have to be suspicious of people on mobile phones now being able to crack the code and break into a WEP encrypted network. I hope most people use the WPA or better encryption but there are still a lot of 'wappers' out there!

I don't know if there would be anything available, but I'd expect the cracking to take far longer on the N95 as it's a process that purely relies on CPU power - N95 has a 330MHz processor, which is rather slow compared to modern PCs...