Poisoned wifi signals can take over all Android devices in range, no user intervention required

Atheros in the S5 to hand got all those patches in '14-16, so surely some characteristic has been put upon the way it was previously vulnerable, like just not crashing working communications layers. Screen sharing, DLNA, Bonjour and whatever else is jamming with the WiFi of the moment will have to plow one teensy language environment at a time into acting infected… Maybe the ‘Ya phone infect!’ messages can at least go away in favor of ‘This Tab3’s touchscreen-companding DLNA is also roleplaying a L.2 human reaver with 15 CON. Hardening it to just work in context of AndoKrita…with dbus filtered.’

How did the ‘you have a lot to answer for, Python’ in JWZ’s blog not make it to the list of canny poisonings, by the way? N-Gate’s re-digest of Hacker News is also pretty funny.

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