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TalkTalk campaign against government plans to disconnect file sharers
A survey commissioned by TalkTalk has found that 5% of wireless networks are open, without any security to restrict its use to authorised users. 41% of a total of over 1,000 wireless networks were 'vulnerable to unauthorised use', mostly due to use of deprecated (obsolete) WEP encryption rather than the stronger WPA or WPA2 type.

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