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A hostname (occasionally also, a sitename) is the unique name by which a network-attached device (which could consist of a computer, file server, network storage device, fax machine, copier, cable modem, etc.) is known on a network. The hostname is used to identify a particular host in various forms of electronic communication such as the World Wide Web, e-mail or Usenet.

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	WEP Lab is a tool designed to teach how WEP works, what different vulnerabilities it has, and how they can be used in practice to break a WEP protected wireless network.
	WEPCrack is an open source tool for breaking 802.11 WEP secret keys. This tool is is an implementation of the attack described by Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir in the paper "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4"
	WEP Attack is a WLAN open source Linux tool for breaking 802.11 WEP keys. This tool is based on an active dictionary attack that tests millions of words to find the right key. Only one packet is required to start an attack.
	Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic
	John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS.
	Dwep Crack is a part of bsd-airtools from DACHB0DEN LABS. bsd-airtools is a package that provides a complete tool suite for wireless 802.11b auditing. It contains, among other things, a WEP-cracking application, kernel patches for NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD,
	Air Snort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered.
	Air Crack is a tool that has one of the highest success rates for cracking WEP.

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"Let's Talk Computers" goes on the air in 1989. The radio show is hosted by Alan and Sandra Ashendorf, and features insider conversations covering the latest hardware, software, and computer innovations. The weekly show is based in Nashville, Tennessee and ranks as one of the longest running radio computer talk shows.