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  * For MW purposes, any "secret" key would have to be known to everybody in MW and thus is not much of a secret! 

  * [WEP] is known to reduce bandwidth on many cards. 

- * Even if this weren't the case, [WEP]'s design is flawed and there are readily available tools that can listen in on a network and determine the key within a few hours or, at most, a few days. 

+ * Even if this weren't the case, [WEP]'s design is flawed and there are readily available tools that can listen in on a network and determine the key within a few hours or, at most, a few days. Correction minimum of 15mins to an hour see (http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article120.php Tom's Networking Guide to WEP cracking). 

  * If you need to secure your data, you should use software application-level security such as a [VPN], email encryption like [PGP], logging to machines you can use [SSH], and so on, which don't have such known flaws. As any are found, they can be fixed by a software update rather than requiring to to replace your network card (or, at the very least, do a firmware upgrade). 

 

 [802.11i] is supposed to fix WEP's flaws and provide proper security.