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.braindump
Personal blog · sviehb.wordpress.comsecuritysystems
.braindump is a personal blog at sviehb.wordpress.com about security and systems. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Wi-Fi Protected Setup PIN brute force vulnerability”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked to share research on a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN brute-force vulnerability, including the author's accompanying paper. Commenters cite it as the source for the attack's scale.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Wi-Fi Protected Setup PIN brute force vulnerability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-28
What Hacker News says?
If you read the originally linked post and paper (linked above), this is a really large scale WPS vulnerability: http://sviehb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setup...
Comment linking /2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setup-pin-brute-force-vulnerability/
on “Cracking WPA in 10 hours or less”Submitted Wi-Fi Protected Setup PIN brute force vulnerability as a story · 5 points
HN discussionActual paper[1] from the author's blog post[2]. [1]: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf [2]: https://sviehb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setu...
Comment linking /2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setup-pin-brute-force-vulnerability/
on “WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN Brute Force Vulnerability”