It was something that I had overlooked as I only use WEP anyway.
The point is valid and would currently render the PSP online capabilities useless for anyone who has WPA (or better) already enabled on their wireless network.
However, I only use basic WEP as a safeguard for a humble home network and am not really expecting anyone to even try to hack into my network. Enabling WEP was just to stop any neighbours sharing my internet connection for free!
If Sony really wanted to be on the ball then they wouldn't have bothered with 802.11b and gone straight for 802.11g.
Prior to getting a PSP I was "g" only on my wireless and had to enable "b & g" instead just for the PSP.
There is a lot of quite new wireless networking stuff that can handle WEP but not WPA so given the choice I would happily have a WEP only PSP with 802.11g.
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