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WPS vulnerability

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while surfing the rest of the net, i found a suprising security flaw.

essentially, it is a brute force attack on the WPS pin.

More reading at lifehacker
 
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Benchmark Scores not so fast...
Bump. With Jetster's find, this might be worthy of a refresh.
 
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WPS vulnerabilities were found ages ages ago, which is why no one should ever use it <:
 
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