Re: the other side of wireless security

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Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Well we have a disagreement. Aircrack is not a security tool.  If
> you want to know whether your WEP encryption string is crackable the
> answer is that it can be cracked. One does not need aircrack to tell
> you that.
> 
> aircrack then has only one use. Cracking other peoples WEP
> encryption strings.  As such its distribution can only be for bad
> purposes.  I would leave it out of a distribution. YMMV

Having access to the tools someone else might use to attack you is
quite useful.  Groups like the RIAA would argue that tools to rip CD's
can only be used for bad purposes as well.

> I can't install aircrack using yum so I guess I would disagree that
> its part of the f7 distribution.

# yum install aircrack-ng

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