OK, wireless security on a mobile gaming device is just not really that big of a concern for me personally. To be honest, I don’t care. Now if I am working on something private, then by all means I would be doing this from a secure machine. But to fret about wireless security on PSPs and the like seems a little overboard to me.

Analyzing the new portable console from Sony, http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=56, George Ou has discovered some security problems.

It seems the new console does not comply with WPA security standard, and it uses WEP, an older set of ciphering protocols.

George Ou says the WEP standard was abandoned on 2003, and Wi Fi Alliance recommended that all wireless products should include WPA.

Sony’s product does not comply with these requirements, and consequently, the only way you can connect the device to a wireless
network is to change the security settings. [Read the rest]