On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Nicholas Weaver <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I've written up a more detailed take on how active cookie discovery could
> be used for exploitation targeting...
>
> https://medium.com/p/bb8816e88d86
>
> The real fun bit, however, is:
>
> > Yet foreign intelligence agencies can do even better. Want to target
> every Senator, every DC staffer, and every lobbyist by name? Do you have
> their Gmail addresses, LinkedIn profile, and/or Warcraft player names? Have
> a couple of “diplomats” you can afford to get kicked out of the country on
> the very remote chance your caught? If so, this one is for you. So the DGSE
> (the French version of the NSA) should listen up.
>
> Using packet injection on the WiFi at the local starbucks...
>

I would note that attack at this level does not really qualify as
"pervasive".  And that there are sizeable technical differences between
doing injection on a WiFi link and doing injection in, say, an OC-192.  So
we should not regard passive and active attack as equivalent.

--Richard




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