It was just a matter of time before somebody harnessed all the processing power available in GPUs for evil.

Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian’s firm’s use of the latest NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery’ times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves that WiFi’s WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data.

I’m sure a GeForce 4 MX440 isn’t up to the task. Read the article via SC Magazine here.

I just have to laugh at nVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang who made the bold statement “We’re Going to Open a Can of Whoop Ass” (not the good kind of laughing at either, the bad kind - which makes me reconsider investing in their products). Sure it started with Intel claiming the graphics we’ve become used to aren’t up to the challenges the future will bring, but Huang fired back with references that Intel’s solution would only be capable of office based tasks and not gaming/high-definition. Then it was Intel’s turn, who emailed journalists reminding them of how most Windows crashes are caused by nVIDIA’s incomplete drivers.

I’m not going to tell you what Huang’s response was, you’re just going to have to read article from DailyTech to find out.

My system’s running an Intel CPU and nVIDIA graphics card. I get the feeling I should probably start getting used to ATi graphics solutions.