Wi-Fi Protected Access is a Wi-Fi security technology developed in response to the weaknesses of Wired Equivalent Privacy standards. It improves upon WEP's ...

WEP cracking makes us think of war driving; driving around with your laptop open, looking for WiFi access points, and stopping to run some software when you find them. [Ben’s] way is similar but ...

but not be able to access it (see WEP and WPA). The SSID is displayed in a mobile device's list of Wi-Fi networks, and it will attempt to connect if it has previously established the connection.