WEP vs. WPA

If your mother uses wifi at home to send you e-mail, and your home network is not protected by WEP or WPA, what reasons would you suggest to her for enabling one of these two protocols at home if the liability of reading those e-mails still exists once her message leaves your home, on it’s way to school?

I would definitely suggest that she enable one of these protocols at home for security purposes, even if the information that she is sending is not valuable. The purpose of these protocols is to protect our wireless from intruders, but it was clearly found that a WEP (Wired Equivelent Privacy) had flaws and making it very easy to evesdrop on the network.; making this the worse choice of the two. In using a WPA (WiFi Protected Access ), there seems to be much more security and privacy for our network. "The Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard, and subsequent WPA2 standard, overcome these flaws by adding stronger authentication and encryption and should be used whenever possible in preference to WEP." (Windows IT Pro). It is extremely important that all of our information at home is protected because we do almost anything online. From ordering items using credit card information to signing up for things that ask for our Social Security Numbers, we have to make sure that our network is protected.

(http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/50105/reaping-the-benefits-of-wpa-and-peap.html)