Wifi Blobs

[Mike Garfias]

No dice from anyone I've talked to yet.  I did find this tho:

http://www.smallworks.com/archives/00000455.htm

On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:28:11PM -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I suspect they used that card because that's the driver they had an
> exploit for. Can't expect them to have an exploit for every driver
> (yet).
>
> As I read in one of the several articles covering this, they chose  
> a Mac
> because the Mac people have been a bit smug about security and these
> guys wanted to show that no OS is safe if you allow such drivers in  
> the
> door.
>
> I'd like to hear what your friends have to say on the matter. Nice to
> get a first hand account (well, it'd be at least second hand again by
> the time I heard it).
>
> -- 
> Darrin Chandler            |  Phoenix BSD Users Group
> dwchandler at stilyagin.com   |  http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
> http://www.stilyagin.com/  |
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>