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Researchers Hack Wi-Fi driver to Breach Laptop
InfoWorldMike writes "Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver, reports Robert McMillan. The hack will be demonstrated at the upcoming Black Hat USA 2006 conference during a presentation by David Maynor, a research engineer with Internet Security Systems and Jon Ellch, a student at the U.S. Naval postgraduate school in Monterey, California. They used an open-source 802.11 hacking tool called LORCON (Lots of Radion Connectivity) to throw an extremely large number of wireless packets at different wireless cards and see if they fail. They declined to disclose the specific details of their attack before the August 2 presentation, but said it was potentially a huge hole because exploiters could simply sit in a public space and wait for the right type of machine to come into range to attack. "This would be the digital equivalent of a drive-by shooting," said Maynor. The victim would not even need to connect to a network for the attack to work, he said."
sweet! gangsta wardriving! from the article u pointed to, but unrelated to the topic: "I'm creating a foundation that will be around for a long time, because fame can come and go or get lost in the lifestyle and the splurging," the rapper says in the Forbes interview. "I never got into it for the music. I got into it for the business." U don't hear that very often from musicians, at least the guy is honest.
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Ahhh, so now you're admitting to being a fucking hypocritical douchebag? God damn it I hate gangsta rappers. Putting out hideously mangled "remixes" of old favourites, layered with angry words about their hard life growing up in the ghetto, whores/bitches, drugs, brutal white cops and bling-bling. Then when these convicted former drug dealers are famous and have made a fortune from blinkered and angst-ridden teens, we find out that not a penny they've earnt has gone back into helping the impoverished communities from which they claim to have originated, giving rise to yet another generation of ignored and downtrodden youth with little hope of climbing out of the gutter. "Fiddy" can shove his Bentley Continental, 24 carat back scratcher and poolside table of money right up his arse. With any luck the tenth bullet will do the job.