Matthew Wales

Hi everyone, i just wanted to tell you about something really exciting that i have only just found out about this week, and kind of ‘blow my own trumpet’ a little bit, because if i won’t who will you know. Anyway yes the exciting news, i got some awesome feedback from my college lecturer the other day that there is a really good chance that i will be able to achieve the highest grade available for my BSC Dissertation, The highly coveted 1st grade which should really boost my weighted average for my year because i am currently hovering between a 2.1 and a 2.2, so along with my dissertation i am really going to have to push myself in my final two modules to try and get either 2.1 or a 1st for the whole year so that my chances of getting a decent career in the work would be raised as well as being able to progress to a Masters Degree next year, of which i am really looking forward to, i know it will be hard but i believe it will most certainly be beneficial to my future in IT.

I would also like to tell you a little bit about my dissertation if i may, i know some of you may think it boring or be thinking to your selves, what on earth is he on about, but i will try and make it simple-ish which is not easy because it is not a simple subject but you will be glad to know that i will not be going into a great amount of detail, just the basics of what it is all about.

So my dissertation is all about the insecurities of WiFi encryption more precisely how easy the different methods of security are to break into, i have covered WEP, WPA and WPA2, and i am sure if you are reading this with some degree of knowledge of wireless you will know that WPA2 is virtually impossible to ‘Crack’ into however my research has shown the other two are much easier, and i would like to alert those who have lesser knowledge that if you are running WEP encryption on a wireless device the your systems are what we call in the technical world an ‘Open door’ to anyone with a bit of know how, the right software and a few minutes, and WPA if used improperly produces much the same result between 15 and 30 minutes, so my advice to you is to use the most random password you can think of for WPA or switch to WPA2 and never worry about being breached in the near future. I apologies if all of that flew over your head, this subject is not exactly something you can tech in one paragraph but hopefully my 10,000 word dissertation will impress that examination board a Leeds Met enough to get me that first grade.

Anyway that the most exciting news i have had in the last 6 days, and i will certainly let you know what i get when i recieve my result . thanks for reading if you managed to get this far without getting a head ache. Bye