There’s no point in leaving an insecure WiFi network lying around, open for abuse by some toerag with too much time an no social life, even if it is a horrible little 802.11b one.

Fortunately by hacking the handset, we have allowed the phone to use WPA encryption (the Telecom Italia firmware is crippled, and only allows WEP). So lets begin……

In the WiFi settings (menu 5.12.11), enter the following values:

1. Wi-fi Flag: OFF
2. Auth Type: Open
3. Type WPA: WPA
4. EAP Type: None
5. EAP Sub-Type: None
6. Encrypt type: TKIP
7. GrpEnc Type: TKIP
8. EAP TLS PW: blank
9. EAP ID: empty
10. EAP PW: blank

Now, on your AP, set the security mode to WPA with PSK, the cipher type to TKIP, and set the passphrase to whatever you want – just make sure it’s exactly 24 characters. Ensure the authentication type is set to Open, reboot your AP. Reboot the phone, and it will ask for the passphrase. Enter it, the phone will connect, and you’re secure. Please don’t ask me how to do this for YOUR AP. Google it!

If you’re really paranoid, like me, you can also disable SSID broadcast, and enable MAC address filtering, ensuring that your phone MAC is in the ACL.