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KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« on: October 16, 2017, 07:33:07 AM »
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/

Update all your devices that use this protocol when you get the earliest opportunity, that particularly includes Android and Linux users. It also affects Apple fanboys too along with Microsux.
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2017, 03:36:40 PM »
Yeah saw this today.  I doubt linksys will put out a patch for my old router.
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2017, 06:31:42 PM »
It looks like it's the protocol that needs patching or replacing to me, so Device or OS will make no difference and it's just a proof at this point so it still needs to make into the wild...   
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2017, 09:00:42 PM »
yes, there are exploitable bugs in the basic WPA protocol and also rather worse ones in the Linux and Android device versions... but the basic bug is in every wifi router and client device everywhere and old ones will not ever get updates and even for newer ones -  does anyone other than me actually check and update their wifi router firmware? We tend to install phone updates but lots of people won't even do that - "I had an update that screwed up my twitter feeds (or whatever, I have heard it justified for as little as resetting the phone to be locked as portrait display), so never again".
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2017, 09:23:06 PM »
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/hackers-stole-bugs-from-microsoft-database-but-company-never-disclosed-it/

https://www.androidauthority.com/verizon-att-selling-information-807684/

Meh, it's all there for anyone who wants it. No matter how careful you are.

Between Facebook & Google & Equifax & hackers etc. there's no place to hide and nothing you can do about it.
Facebook alone is the greatest human data accumulator ever devised.
People just spew their lives and "likes" with virtually no awareness or inhibitions.
Likewise Twitter & Snapchat.

The only way to win is to not play. - WOPR

Which of course is about impossible unless you want to live like Ted Kaczynski and I enjoy indoor plumbing too much for that!

But I digress. ;)

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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2017, 11:00:41 PM »
Did he have an outdoor #$%*ter. You could probably still Wi-Fi in there.
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2017, 10:51:07 AM »
You would not want your toilet where you eat or sleep...

How many of you have ever used a wooden outdoor outhouse?
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2017, 11:25:54 AM »
Quote from: RAF122S on October 18, 2017, 10:51:07 AM
You would not want your toilet where you eat or sleep...

How many of you have ever used a wooden outdoor outhouse?

[Raises Hand]

Both with and without the luxury of an installed, hinged, toilet seat.

...But, never with a laptop or smart phone!
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2017, 12:23:43 PM »
Quote from: RAF122S on October 18, 2017, 10:51:07 AM
You would not want your toilet where you eat or sleep...

How many of you have ever used a wooden outdoor outhouse?

Dang. You have one a' them fancy outhouses?
Ever crapped in the woods with nothing to hold on?
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2017, 01:33:47 PM »
Quote from: Duke McDukiedook on October 18, 2017, 12:23:43 PM
Quote from: RAF122S on October 18, 2017, 10:51:07 AM
You would not want your toilet where you eat or sleep...

How many of you have ever used a wooden outdoor outhouse?

Dang. You have one a' them fancy outhouses?
Ever crapped in the woods with nothing to hold on?

No way.  I'm not makin' it invitin' for the aliens and their anal probes orbiting in space.
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2017, 01:36:13 AM »
Try strolling up a hill, choose a rock without a mark on it, roll it up hill one revolution, park your buttocks gently against it, have your crap whilst waving to the fisher/men/women walking around the lake below you. wipe your arse, then roll the rock back into position and mark it.
Sorry, no wi-fi available. 
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Re: KRACK Attack leaves all WPA2 WiFi routers open to possible attack
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2017, 11:43:53 AM »
Oh, the hardships we suffer.  ...Pooping without an internet connection... What a waste. [sic]

Reminds me of walking a mile in the snow just to get to school.  We had it rough back then...

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