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Subject: Re: Is it possible that modern wireless card only supports WPA and
 not WEP or this is a bug in the driver?
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Yuri wrote:
> KAYVEN RIESE wrote:

>> 
>> WEP is not fully secure.  WPA or WPA2 is the improvement.  The
>> above story notes that American businesses are in arears with
>> respect to properly upgrading the wireless routers that they
>> use for financial processing.
>> 
> Sorry, Your response has nothing to do with the question.

I tend to beg to differ.  Backward compatibility standards imply
the answer to your question (that was actually already answered
anyway).  I considered it relevant to realize the importance of
WPA upgrade.  Sorry if you already knew that and I wasted your
time.


>
> Yuri
>
>

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