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11-06-2014, 07:16 PM
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An attacker sitting within a compromised computer's Wi-Fi range -- like in a parking lot outside an office -- could use Smuggler to set up an access point that broadcasts a beacon frame with a blank SSID and a Rates information element that actually ...

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