[ Thanks to Paul A.
Rombouts for this link. ]
“Greedy computer hackers using open-source Linux machines could
steal more than their fair share of bandwidth from Wi-Fi hotspots,
Swiss computer scientists have warned.“At the MobiSys 2004 conference in Boston, Massachusetts on
Monday, Imad Aad, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne, outlined how changing just one line of code in the Linux
operating system could allow hackers to monopolise the bandwidth at
hotspots using the 802.11 standard…”