[FRIAM] KRACK

[Marcus Daniels]

Nick writes:


"I hope at some point you will let us civilians know what we should do about this.  Other than cringing in abject terror, of course."


You can subscribe to one of these..


https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403388,00.asp


This will involve pressing a Connect button before using the Internet.   The channel will be encrypted, so that a wiretap (without the wires) it will only show gibberish.


Or download the software at www.torproject.org<http://www.torproject.org>

Tor takes more extensive measures to both encrypt your connections and also to make it very difficult to track you.  The cost of this is that it is slower.  A VPN is less noticeable in this regard.


As Glen points out, there are other kinds of wireless access that are easy to overlook such as when a smartphone switches from LTE to Wifi, Kindle/Tablet browsing, Amazon Fire sticks, wireless cameras, and so on.   There are VPN app for smartphones too.


Then there is another option which is to buy a big estate and put a moat around it.   That doesn't stop drones, though.   A moat and a plexiglass bubble, then.   Oh, and watch out for boring machines too from well-equipped people like Elon Musk and El Chapo.


Marcus

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49:23 AM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] KRACK

Hi, Wizards,

I hope at some point you will let us civilians know what we should do about this.  Other than cringing in abject terror, of course.

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of gepr ?
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 7:11 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] KRACK

Yeah. They've built with a patch for ddwrt, too. Supposedly here:
http://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/33525
But it's still fun to think about.


On October 20, 2017 5:00:38 PM PDT, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
>The OpenWRT/LEDE open source images for compatible routers got updated
>a few days ago.  Since the hack attacks the handshake protocol between
>client and access point, there are apparently several ways the access
>point can subvert the attack.  Whether the update accomplishes that
>without introducing new vulnerabilities remains to be seen.


--
⛧glen⛧

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