Changing Automaticaly WPA key After/Every hours Airport / Widget

Question

Hello all,
I was wondering if there is a way or an app that could change the WPA key (of Aitport) automatically, either at regular intervals or else.
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not a wireless security expert, but I do read a bit. I guessing that you used a pretty weak password.
I don't know if what you propose is possible, but I suspect it's not in consumer level electronics. People who do security for a living don't find it 'tedious'. It's a fact of doing business. I don't see where it would be workable on a network with more than just a couple of devices. Recent history has shown that just about every wireless security method chosen will eventually get hacked. Wireless is insecure by nature and should not ever be used if a network must be 'secure'. Reference TJMaxx.
The acceptable risk factors can be adjusted for by taking the time to set up and use the highest levels available today on the consumer market, even if this means buying later model wireless equipment. At present, the best consumer level of wireless security is WPA2. I've still got clients running wireless wide open because they can't be bothered, or they are running WEP because that's the level on the router the phone company provided. Those are the targets for the War Drivers.
Since even WindowsXP with Service Pack 3 can now use WPA-AES, if the hardware supports it, then there is no valid reason not to upgrade your wireless hardware to that standard. The problems I run into is with clients who have to maintain lower standards for older equipment, then worry that they can be hacked. You don't get it both ways. If the old laptop can only do WEP which has been cracked since 2001 then chuck it or get a different wireless card for it.
Here is a related thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1852904
As a side note: every demonstration I've bothered to watch on YouTube that purports to having cracked WPA wireless is an exaggeration. There are methods available to see some of the data in the stream, and guess the rest, and then run a dictionary attack to eventually be able to login to an access point. When you use a 26 digit alphanumeric password, the time it takes to actually get the password becomes many years using several computers 24x7. The resources for this kind of hack wouldn't be cheap and probably not in your apartment building or on the neighborhood block (think governments). Running VPN deals with this pretty well - re-encrypt the data in the tunnel that's inside the encrypted connection.
Only the people who update their equipment, and their OS will have any sort of protection over time. People who don't become roadkill.