PSP With No WPA
Market Watch
May 16, 2005
An Ars Technica article reports that,
in the new PSP, Sony has included support for 802.11b networking but has neglected to support WPA security. The WEP security protocol, which contains several major security problems, is supported but provides insufficient security. The security implications for a hand held device might not be great, but customers will have to revert to WEP on their home networks in order to maintain compatablility with the PSP.
WEP is garbage. Someone clever commented in a Sony message board thread about this issue that WEP is so insecure and fast WEP-cracking utils are so widespread and easy to use, that it's almost like there's a Ron Popeil product out that'll do it for you.
