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Microsoft Virtually Duplicates Your Wireless Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the engineers-having-fun dept.

akhomerun writes "Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its experimental new VirtualWiFi Software. The free software enables Windows users to use a single wireless card to connect to multiple wireless networks simultaneously. The current build is a very primitive release, with no support for WEP or WPA encryption."

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  1. Re:Easier Wifi Man in the middle attacks? by random_culchie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Those wifi injection attacks can only be done with two wifi cards. Or so I am led to believe.

    Save buying two if this can be done..

  2. Re:With Source ??? !!! by marcello_dl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe it's still our good ol' Microsoft.

    1) Release an implementation of an interesting concept as shared source.
    2) Wait for free software hackers to implement a similar solution.
    3) Come up with a submarine patent on the idea and a lawsuit for the hackers who "stole the code", SCO style.
    4) Profit!!!

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  3. Once again... by cyberkahn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "The current build is a very primitive release, with no support for WEP or WPA encryption."

    Security comes second. Microsoft is getting serious about security. Yeah ok.

  4. Re:What the crap? by hachete · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that should be "free" (as in beer) software.

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  5. Cool -- all the benefits of wireless... by IronChefMorimoto · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...without none of the hassle of wireless security features like WEP and WPA! God bless Microsoft for being consistent!

    IronChefMorimoto

  6. neat, let's test it by ccdotnet · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...is a very primitive release, with no support for WEP or WPA

    Well there's primitive, and then there's really, really primitive.

    So who's got a non-WEP, non-WPA wireless network we can test this on? Oh, no-one on the planet.

  7. primitive by spacemky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The current build is a very primitive release

    And how is that any different than the current XP SP2 release?

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