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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by inferiorhuman on Friday October 06, 2017 @07:24AM (#15415875)
> I agree it's not a huge security vulnerability

Until the next Broadcom WiFi radio vulnerability.

Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by Spivak on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:43AM (#15417660)
If that's our threat model then we're already hosed. It's not like "turn off your wireless" is a solution to vulnerabilities like this outside of security circles.
Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by inferiorhuman on Saturday October 07, 2017 @07:12PM (#15426204)
Sure we're already hosed, but turn off your WiFi is a fair suggestion. By making it more difficult to determine if the WiFi radio is off and more difficult to disable, Apple is further pushing this solution into "security circles".
Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by an_account on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:36AM (#15417601)
But people who know about that will disable it in settings, and the majority of the world will go on using WiFi fully oblivious.

Before the command center existed people weren’t saying having a WiFi toggle hidden in the settings app is a security vunurability.