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Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadcom's WI-FI Chipsets

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387 points pedro84 | 1 comments | 26 Jul 17 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.292s | source
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shock ◴[26 Jul 17 20:14 UTC] No.14859838[source]▶
This is kind of scary :(. How does one ensure that they aren't vulnerable to this bug?
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excalibur ◴[26 Jul 17 20:23 UTC] No.14859922[source]▶
Don't use any devices with a Broadcom Wi-Fi chipset.
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merb ◴[26 Jul 17 20:58 UTC] No.14860292[source]▶
which basically means don't use any wifi. I think at least 60% of all wi-fi chipsets are broadcom ones.
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gruez ◴[26 Jul 17 23:34 UTC] No.14861362[source]▶
that seems pretty doable. on phones there's qualcomm chipsets, and on desktops/laptops there's atheros, intel, and realtek (of the vendors i know of).
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1. simonh ◴[27 Jul 17 00:57 UTC] No.14861774[source]▶
So your considered recommendation is for 60% of recently bought device owners globally to all replace their phones, tablets and laptops with devices containing Qualcomm chips, immediately.

And this is preferable to a software fix.