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A comment on Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadcom's WI-FI Chipsets. Parent comment

Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by justbuchanan on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:11PM (#14862140)
True, but there are many open-source wi-fi drivers out there already. Unless broadcom's implementation is something out of the ordinary, releasing their driver doesn't really change the game.
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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by cyphar on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:11AM (#14863022)
And experience with Broadcom's wireless drivers (and NFC chips) tells me that the only thing extraordinary about them is how awful and limited they are.
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