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Chris

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Oct 30, 2009, 8:07:11 AM10/30/09
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Did anyone see the wi-fi hacking piece on Watchdog last night? The 'hacker'
(identity protected) was quite happily sporting a MBP.

How serious is this issue really? I'm guessing it was simply hijacking other
people's unsecured http sessions by cloning their cookies from a shared
network subnet.

Or is it really as sinister as they made out?

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T i m

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Oct 30, 2009, 8:13:51 AM10/30/09
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:07:11 +0000, Chris <ithi...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Did anyone see the wi-fi hacking piece on Watchdog last night? The 'hacker'
>(identity protected) was quite happily sporting a MBP.

Was that the 'hacker' or was it a customer in the cafe (they were in
the window, hacker was sitting outside)?

Cheers, T i m

Chris

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Oct 30, 2009, 9:03:55 AM10/30/09
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T i m wrote:

The 'hacker'. The 'victims' had what looked like a netbook and a generic PC
laptop. They only showed two. I do wonder how many they tried before
finding the two which 'worked'.

Ian McCall

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Oct 30, 2009, 4:21:29 PM10/30/09
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From memory, aren't Macs uniquely -unsuited- to the task of hacking
because you can't put the Airport cards into promiscuous mode? Or am I
out of date?

Cheers,
Ian

smurf

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Oct 30, 2009, 6:56:27 PM10/30/09
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They said you needed a device you could buy on the internet (obviously
meaning a usb wifi device that can work in passive (?) mode).

Mark

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Nov 1, 2009, 4:41:50 AM11/1/09
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:56:27 +0100, smurf wrote
(in article <7l1994F...@mid.individual.net>):

I bought a D-Link DWL-G122 wifi dongle a while ago to try and play around
with on my Mac (along with KisMAC). Never got around to it though.

Cheers ... Mark

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