Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Nikon D2 WiFi encryption
From: Lucien <director@ubi.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:06:32 +0200

Eric Welch wrote :

> on 08/04/03 11:00 PM, Karen Nakamura at mail@gpsy.com wrote:
>
>> It supports several types of encryption (all have been hacked, but
>> it's non-trivial for the complex ones and not likely to be something
>> that you're too worried about).
>
> 802.11b (or it it G?) is not all that fast, and they'd have to know 
> you were
> about to transfer files, etc. I think paranoia only goes a so far, so 
> you're
> right. It's easy to hack, but hardly worth it to find the few 
> photographers
> using one who were good enough to make it worth stealing their photos.
>
> Besides, if I were to go with this camera, I'd have the Wifi turned 
> off, and
> use Firewire most of the time anyway.
>
>

Eric,

There is no Firewire on the D2H, only USB2.

And Wifi (802.11b) is optional (an additional module screwed on the 
bottom).

Lucien

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