Re: IEEE spectrum article on Wifi Worms

>>>>> "Irving" == Irving Popovetsky <[email protected]> writes:

Irving> 2.  To address Russell's point: Exploits are generally
Irving> developed 1 target at a time, starting with the most popular
Irving> devices.  Even exploits need to be QA'ed.  In the above
Irving> example you would ID each device as you access the web
Irving> interface, auto exploit the ones you know about and catalog
Irving> the rest for later exploitation.

The upside to all this is that, if something like this were to
actually happen, lots of exploited, reflashable devices would be
hitting Free Geek and/or the resale market, which would indirectly
benefit PTP.  So, a) do not do this; and b) if you do, thank you. ;-)

That's a joke, folks.


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