Have I been blind or is there a bit more involved in this attack?
From the description, it sounds like you'd need to take your laptop to either a very remote or a very shielded place (eg, no available APs anywhere near you) in order for this to work. The chances of two people having their laptops open with wifi enabled in such a situation are fairly slim (though certainly possible). Which is probably why this is only being discovered now.
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Viola! His machine was assigned a different 169.254.x.x address...
Good to see that technology journalists are so enthusiastic about orchestra instruments.
Have I been blind or is there a bit more involved in this attack?
From the description, it sounds like you'd need to take your laptop to either a very remote or a very shielded place (eg, no available APs anywhere near you) in order for this to work. The chances of two people having their laptops open with wifi enabled in such a situation are fairly slim (though certainly possible). Which is probably why this is only being discovered now.
This is just further proof that the Open Source community is full of a bunch of communists. : p
Possibly. Good luck finding a motherboard with EFI, though.