Re: Slashback!

[Kurt Grutzmacher <grutz () jingojango net>]

I was under the impression that the Shmoo variant was a Linksys router 
rather than a laptop with modified MadWIFI drivers. If true, that's a 
cool hack.

We've been using Karma ever since I saw it at CanSec last year but I 
guess nobody can do media hype like Shmoo can!


H D Moore wrote:

> The short story: Simple Nomad worked on this independently of Dino/K2 and 
> didn't realize they covered the same area. KARMA was covered at Dave's 
> thing, Bluehat, CanSec, and PacSec prior to the SN's Shmoocon talk, but 
> apparently most "security" folks didn't pick up on this (most people I 
> have mentioned it to seemed unaware at least). SN did give credit in his 
> presentation, but the media coverage seems to ignore this point. 
>
> -HD
>
>
> On Sunday 15 January 2006 08:49, Dave Aitel wrote:
>  
>
> > How does this: 
> > http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/01/15/0815207.shtml 
> > An anonymous reader writes *"Washingtonpost.com is reporting from the
> > 2nd annual Shmoocon hacker conference about the release of a previously
> > undocumented vulnerability in...
> >    
>
>  
>
> > Differ from this:
> > KARMA is a set of tools for assessing the security of wireless clients
> > at multiple layers. Wireless sniffing tools discover clients and their
> > preferred/trusted networks by passively listening for 802.11 Probe
> > Request frames. 
> >