Comments on: The iPhone wireless LAN ownage in a box

By: Online services security report card « Rogerio Aristides

Online services security report card « Rogerio Aristides — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:16:59 +0000

[...] there aren’t many resources allocated to tracking down this kind of attack, and the attack can be launched from a self contained box which vastly reduces risk for the [...]

By: Digital Society » Blog Archive » Online services security report card

Digital Society » Blog Archive » Online services security report card — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:44:33 +0000

[...] aren’t many resources allocated to tracking down this kind of attack, and the attack can be launched from a self contained box which vastly reduces risk for the [...]

By: Technology for Mortals » Debunking the latest fear mongering news on WPA security

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:34:58 +0000

[...] to use this method to go after a residential target or even business targets. There are much easier, cheaper, and faster ways of breaking in to a network. If you want to neutralize the new GPGPU threat to [...]

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:59 +0000

Its a great idea, IF you have the money to lose! Potentially someone might open it and steal your iphone! That would be my main concern. Otherwise I like it.

By: BobW

BobW — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:23:08 +0000

I suggest Faraday cages in the shipping department to hold all undelivered boxes.

Soonest.

By: George Ou

George Ou — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:05:05 +0000

This solution is deadly simple and evil from a security perspective while deadly cool from a hacker’s perspective. Now let’s hope it raises some awareness for wireless security.

By: mcoombes

mcoombes — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:45:59 +0000

After reading your article and discussing it with a couple of people I know down at the pub, we had to try it. I posted it to where I work and let it loose on the publicly available wireless network that we use for delegates, so no need to worry about any annoying legalities or security issues. The box ended up sitting in Finance of all places, for a few days before being returned to sender.

For fun we also included bluetooth scanning and controlled that remotely, catching (amongst others) the CIO and the CEO not following the bluetooth security policy that they insisted that all staff obey or be disciplined.

It worked exactly as advertised, up until the battery died a couple of days later (the bluetooth really sucked down the power fast). This is an interesting approach to an old problem. A seriously cool idea.

By: dietrich

dietrich — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:13:06 +0000

By: George Ou

George Ou — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:45:08 +0000

Oh lord, here comes the Mac fanboy fanatics that can’t even distinguish a complement to an Apple product when they see one.

Anyone with a brain can see that the iPhone is a revolutionary device and I’ve said as much. This just makes the iPhone that much cooler, in the sense of useful.

By: Moeskido

Moeskido — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:42:53 +0000

@George:

Define "cool," please. Deliberate vandalism or adolescent prank? I mean, considering the effort is aimed at a target that scores cheap site hits.