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How does it determine which device gets to bypass the security and which one doesn't?

It probably wouldn't be too hard to let a laptop take advantage of this "feature" and bypass the encryption.

Thanks, but I think I'll pass.]]>Oct 24th 2007 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/
How about mobile device manufacturers start putting in decent support for network security? This is like having an excessively restrictive firewall, and fixing it by letting any program that asks nicely connect to whatever it wants. Can be made to sound nice for marketing, but doesn't actually work.]]>Oct 24th 2007 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 25th 2007 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 25th 2007 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 24th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 24th 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 24th 2007 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/
But then it's always fun to walk down the road scanning with my PSP and seeing how many routers I can find.]]>Oct 24th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/
Bruteforcing MAC addresses would take FOREVER. It's much easier to sniff the router in question, take note of the actual clients communicating (write down their MAC addresses...) and either wait till they disconnect OR deauth them :)

From there you could try to either login into their router and add your MAC address to the whitelist OR if you're bold enough you could remove MAC filtering altogether... hope no one notices....]]>Oct 24th 2007 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/
But, as has already been stated, how is the router going to differentiate between a PC and a PSP?]]>Oct 24th 2007 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 24th 2007 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=136493) which I bought about a year ago and has probably been around for quite a bit longer than that, has this feature in stock firmware.
Basically you can set up two networks (one secured, one not) and I believing it's something like NATing the two networks separately.]]>Oct 24th 2007 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 25th 2007 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/24/i-o-datas-wn-g54-r4-wifi-router-lets-your-handheld-bypass-secur/Oct 25th 2007 2:37AM