A security researcher has released a set of instructions for exploiting a security flaw in the wireless Internet devices built into millions of new laptops from HP, Dell, Gateway and other computer makers. An attacker could use the flaw to take complete control over any vulnerable machine located within a few hundred feet, so be forewarned that reading the rest of this post could make you awfully leery of that guy sitting in the corner booth at Starbucks gleefully clacking away on his laptop.
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Nvyseal
, Nov 13 2006 05:55 PM
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Posted 13 November 2006 - 05:55 PM
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Posted 13 November 2006 - 06:16 PM
another "evils of wireless" expose'...i would hope that folks who use wireless 24/7 do not store or leave valued personal info of their own or others' on these machines 
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Posted 13 November 2006 - 07:26 PM
Some poeple are just plain stupid MO, I am sure they do!! Heck, when I am out in public I don't use my laptop to get on my bank account or anything like that! You gotta use common sense and do that stuff at home!!
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