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Sounds like they only increased the speed of brute force attacks. Use a strong password and you'll be fine.

EDIT: That said, at least for me, the main reason I need wireless encryption is to prevent neighbors from using it. It would be silly to rely on wireless encryption to safeguard sensitive network activity. That's what SSH, SSL, etc. are for.

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From their flowerly press release: "With billions of possible combinations, it can take years to break into a WPA/WPA2 protected network. However, WPA/WPA2 protected networks are not immune against distributed attacks performed with GPU-accelerated algorithms. With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of the newest NVIDIA chips."

Now if only I could somehow get Eclipse to use my GPU to do a compile

Your GPU would be slow as shit at compiling. You wouldn't want it to compile anything.

GPUs are only good at doing lots of arithmetic in parallel.

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