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. -- Nicholas Weaver it is a tale, told by an idiot, [email protected] full of sound and fury, 510-666-2903 .signifying nothing PGP: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/data/nweaver_pub.asc
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