On Dec 12, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Richard Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

There is no difference between the two scenarios, just the cost of the 
hardware: a $35 Raspberry Pi vs a $5000 multicore box running Bro.  The 
technology, techniques, and attacker abilities are the same.

And dollars to doughnuts says France can use this within their boarders on 
OC-192 links.

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