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Re:Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to... by davidsong on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:23AM (#15481671)
Powerline adapters are pretty cheap nowadays and fast enough. I get synchronous 200mbps over a pair of TP-Link gigabit ones in a place with really poor quality wiring, and they come with power pass-through so I don't even lose a power socket.
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Re:Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to... by MaxBarraclough on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:49AM (#15481759)
> Powerline adapters are pretty cheap nowadays and fast enough

Well that was hug's point - yes, you can buy your way out of the problem, but if you have integrated Wi-Fi, you don't need to.

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Re:Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to... by egeozcan on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:15AM (#15481850)
I do use a powerline adapter and it works but I'm afraid that there aren't too many eyes looking at them - what if they have a big flaw and it stays dark?
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Re:Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to... by tomfanning on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:47AM (#15482280)
There's no way these adaptors aren't vulnerable, given the nature of them. In my opinion. Extracting the signal from the mains and feeding it into GNU Radio for demodulation, then subsequent attack, would be an interesting exercise.
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Re:Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to... by ptr on Monday October 16, 2017 @08:01AM (#15482577)
Why is that? AFAIK, the data is encrypted.
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