Wifi Blobs

[Mike Garfias]

I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this.

There was some weirdness with the exploit demo.  For instance: why a  
3rd party card in the laptop?  Why not the built in AirPort card?   
Not saying it doesn't work, or that BLOBs are a good idea.  But  
something smells fishy here.
I've got some friends at blackhat/defcon, I'll see if they know  
anything about what happened.


On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote:

> Now and again I rail against something on a matter of principal. Not
> long ago I did that about including binary drivers from vendors.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/271 shows the practical downside of
> accepting binary drivers from vendors. Will you get hacked the next  
> time
> you turn on your laptop in a coffee shop?
>
>
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