Talk:Cracking of wireless networks

Terms used — ‘hack’ vs. ‘crack’
The use of the term “hacking” (and derivative terms, such as hacker) are misleading. Terms such as white-hat and black-hat should be used, or at least some kind of distinction between those with knowledge/experience who use it for evil-doing, and those who don’t. Perhaps the older term of “cracker” (and derivatives, such as cracking, and cracked) should be included where black-hat would not be grammatically appropriate. In short, a ‘hacker’ is not an evil-doer (even though they may know how to), and such concepts should not be implied by context of use. — See the usage notes & references for the entry in Wiktionary — Lee Carré (talk) 00:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Request to change the title

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:23, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Wireless cracking → Cracking of wireless networks –

Dear fellow editors,

I have hereby requested to alter the title "Wireless cracking" into "Cracking of wireless networks".

I regard "Wireless cracking" as slipshod English, because the cracking itself is not wireless. (The cracking is performed by a human or by a computer; both of them are not wireless phenomena.) The title is also ambiguous, because it can mean the cracking of radio sets.

Firstly, I thought of "Cracking of wireless networks", which I derived from the current title.

Secondly, I considered "Cracking of WLANs" as an alternative to "Cracking of wireless networks". To obtain direction, I consulted the book Upgrading and Repairing PC's, 19th edition, by Scott Mueller. This most authoritive book on computer hardware has "Wireless networks" as a main entry in its index, while "WLAN" is not even present as a normal entry. Therefore, the use of the acronym WLAN should be rejected.

Thirdly, I considered "Intrusion of wireless networks" as an alternative to "Cracking of wireless networks". This alternative is based on the modern book Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, 4th edition, by Joe Casad. This book favours the words intrusion and intruder. I think that "Intrusion of wireless networks" is more appealing in the perspective of someone who wants to secure a wireless network, but "Cracking of wireless networks" is more appropriate in the perspective of someone who wants to crack a wireless network, because cracking precedes intrusion, and it is the cracking that takes the effort.

I conclude that "Cracking of wireless networks" is the right title for our article.

Yours faithfully,

Maarten 1963 (talk) 17:28, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Support not wirelessly cracking PCs through their IrDA ports. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 04:27, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
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Maarten 1963 (talk) 15:15, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

assesment
there are far too many external pdf links in this article. try to change them to source refs, and reference the sources properly. has great information, but it needs cleanup and proper style. -- Aunva6talk - contribs 19:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC) ok, problem No. 1: the external links No. 2: the refs. you don't need a ref for each section of a book if your citing a large portion of a book. it's making the reflist extra lengthy without need -- Aunva6talk - contribs 20:04, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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