With the immense amount of security updates forced onto our dear os’s each day, you’d really wonder why one of those updates hasn’t completely banned wep encryption keys for securing wifi networks. This is now 2014, the wep keys have been and can be broken so easily and faster than before (we’re talking 20 secs to a few minutes..) that they shouldn’t be allowed for further use. And yet today anyone can just walk the streets and easily find targets to sniff and crack:

$ airport en0 scan | grep WEP

wagamama 6c:f3:7f:56:71:d0 -85 36 N GB WEP
wBALHRT5 00:0b:86:e6:4a:22 -74 11 N GB WEP
wBALHRT5 00:0b:86:dc:1f:01 -78 13 N -- WEP
wBALHRT5 00:0b:86:dc:1f:11 -85 36 N GB WEP