Penguin
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Acronym for Wired Equivilency Privacy

It's supposed to make using WirelessNetworking? as secure as using wired connections. In practise it takes your network from 'stupidly easy' to enter, to 'easy' to enter. the WEP protocol is reasonably broken. Don't rely on it (but then again, it's better than nothing -- but only just).