[Tfug] Fraudulent airport WiFi

[Bill M.]

Everyone,

> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:01:12 -0700
> From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf at geoapps.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Fraudulent airport WiFi
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
> Message-ID: <44AE5B18.23950.905A866 at angussf.geoapps.com>
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> On 3 Jul 2006 at 13:22, Adrian  wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> Have you seen this?
> 
> ------- Included Stuff Follows -------
> Researchers hack Wi-Fi driver to breach laptop
>     One of many flaws found allowed them to take over a laptop by exploiting a 
>     bug in an 802.11 wireless driver
>  By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
>  June 21, 2006
> 
> http://ww6.infoworld.com/products/print_friendly.jsp?link=/article/06/06/21/795
> 36_HNwifibreach_1.html
> 

I wonder if this hack applies to using NDISWrapper used to load an 
internal Broadcom wireless 802.11g card in a laptop (running SuSE 10.0)? 
The NDISWrapper is using the Windows driver, right? Does that make a 
Linux box vulnerable to the kind of hacks described in the above 
article? Hmmmm...

-*-Bill