From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 17:37:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8428916A4DD for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:37:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd4@fadesa.es) Received: from fuego.fadesa.es (fuego.fadesa.es [195.55.55.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B097443D73 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:37:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd4@fadesa.es) Received: (from root@localhost) by fuego.fadesa.es (8.9.3p2/8.8.8) id TAA00094 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:30:43 +0200 Received: from tierra.fadesa.es(195.55.55.7) by fuego.fadesa.es Thu, 10 Aug 06 19:30:19 +0200 Received: from [195.55.55.6] (filemon.fadesa.es [195.55.55.6] (may be forged)) by tierra.fadesa.es (8.9.3p2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA31737 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:36:32 +0200 Message-ID: <44DB6E98.8010701@fadesa.es> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:36:24 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Jos=E9_M=2E_Fandi=F1o=22?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Logged: Logged by tierra.fadesa.es as TAA31737 at Thu Aug 10 19:36:32 2006 Subject: atheros chips dangerous? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:37:16 -0000 Hello, Possibly some of you will have read the news about "Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less"[1]. At this time I was searching a wireless card for my server and I wonder how this can affect to the combination FreeBSD+ath(4). The ath_hal page states that FreeBSD use a binary driver and I think it is located in this file[2]. Unlike OpenBSD which affirms that they have reverse engineering[3] the drivers would I be at risk if I use atheros based wireless cards with FreeBSD? all comments will be appreciated. Thank you. [1] http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/hijacking_a_macbook_in_60_seco_1.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu [3] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/27/openbsd-3_9.html