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Re:Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack by userbinator on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:27PM (#14039165)
Imagine the havoc you could wreak by walking around a large city downtown, spewing out exploits to anyone who comes into WiFi range :-)

An idea that immediately comes to mind is to root everyone's phones, patch the firmware to fix the bugs, and then do nothing more than perhaps leave a short yet profound message: "Thanks to a bug, you now have full control of your device. Was that a bug? You decide. Enjoy responsibly."

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

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Re:Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack by overlordalex on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:31AM (#14041064)
That reminds me of the worm[1] that would patch the system, and then self-destruct. The problem being that it caused massive load on the servers distributing the patches, as well as restarting users computers without warning.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia

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