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Houston-Area Student Proves Weakness of Wireless Networks' Security System.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2001
By Greg Hassell, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 11--A Rice University undergraduate has earned a measure of high-tech fame by becoming the first person to successfully break through a security system that protects wireless local-area networks.
The work of Adam Stubblefield, a 20-year-old math major, proves that the system used to safeguard wireless networks is vulnerable to attack and can be easily breached with the right know-how.
Working as a summer intern at AT&T Labs in New Jersey, Stubblefield launched a computer attack on a security system called the wired equivalent privacy, or WEP, encryption protocol.
The protocol has been under fire from numerous critics, and a recently published paper by...
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