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by cypherpunks01 5232 days ago
And if you lose your important WPA key and can't recover it via dictionary attack, there's always reaver-wps: http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
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only if they have wps enabled...
A depressingly large number of recently manufactured routers do, and it is on by default by mandate of the WiFi alliance. If the router is Cisco/Linksys, in many instances you can't disable it, at least as I understand it.