The only way an end-point user can get onto a Linksys Secure Network without the password is to hack it. Hacking the network is extremely challenging and you do need advanced computer skills to accomplish this hack. If you're successful, you'll retrieve the correct password for the network. This means that you will be able to log onto the network in question any time you wish. There is a debate raging about if Wi-Fi should be free for everyone. "Net Freedom" supporters flatly refuse to pay for Internet connections and employ hacks to crack passwords as a regular practice.
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Download a Wireless Key Viewer. NirSoft has developed a quick and relatively easy "password recovery" protocol to use in finding your Linksys WEP (see Resources). Install the client onto your desktop and set it to search for WEP passwords. You should see the password to the right of the network name under Key (ASCii.)
Perform a dictionary attack to hack the password. This hack consists of entering every word in the dictionary. This hack works more often than not because network users are notorious for using poorly constructed passwords. You can hack using a basic dictionary or, for better success, use multiple dictionaries and formulate a string-manipulation on the dictionary you're using. There are two ways to perform a dictionary attack. You can manually input all the data into the WEP password space, which is incredibly time consuming and not the best method to use. You can also input source code for the attack into your computer and run the protocol. This option does involve BASIC coding knowledge
Code a common password list to run in BASIC. More often than not, if the first two options have failed, running a common password list with "l33t" variations to run with the commonly used passwords will succeed. It works because (as previously stated) people are notorious for using poorly constructed passwords. The downfall to this option is that common password lists are not free, you must buy them via an online source and they can cost upward of $50, as of 2010, depending on the freshness of the list.
Perform a brute force attack to hack the password. The most classic of password hacks, the brute force is also the most complicated. The code to run an attack of this variety is readily available online. You must then program it into BASIC and determine the number of variants for which to search. The longer the password, the longer the hack will take. A strong five- to eight-character WEP password could take 24 hours to crack. However if you have the time, coding skills and determination to perform a brute force attack, it will succeed in locating the password for the Linksys network for you.
Input the password into the WEP field and log onto the Linksys network. Once you've found or recovered the password, you can surf on the network's wireless freely. Keep in mind that most large networks regularly change their WEP key, so eventually you'll have to search for it again.
Tips & Warnings
WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy and is the key that you use to encrypt your password for a wireless network.
A string manipulation will try variants of every word you use to hack a password backward and with common letter-number variations of the word spelling.
This article is intended for password recovery or educational purposes only.
Passwords are different than pass codes--to hack a pass code you will need to perform a different set of tasks. WEP only uses passwords.
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