In the ‘Next’ section of today’s SMH, George Skarbek recommends 128-bit WEP encryption as the answer to what is the ‘best security for a laptop connected to the internet’ … ‘I do all our banking and paying bills on the computers’. Does the ‘Director and principal consultant of his computer consulting company, Skarbek Consulting.’ not know that WEP has been officially deprecated since 2004 and is widely known to provide little or no security?
I hope home users don’t read this article and change their router settings from WPA2 to WEP at the say-so of this ‘expert’.
December 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm
it’s a sad comment on the state of the world’s tech media when that sort of thing shows up in the newspaper (especially such a respected one as SMH (and the Age, where Next is also published)).
This sort of thing has been coming for quite some time, due to the Web, the only people who are truly interested in the field of IT are likely to find their stuff online, which is where good material now gets published, leaving people who are clearly incompetent filling the print media.
I suggest you copy your post to the Editor of Next — that sort of misinformation demands an apology.