Sure, but DNS servers are way more secure. This way you can infect anybody on a wifi, even if they are extremely careful about only clicking on perfectly safe links, never open attachments, etc.
-david Tien Tuan Anh Dinh wrote: >> I guess I'm just late to party on realizing this. Why doesn't this >> happen more often? I'd think every virus out there would be doing this, >> if not to inject ads or whatever, but to just silently wait for anybody >> to download any executable content and inject itself into the stream. > > One reason why this doesn't happen more often may be because it doesn't > scale well. The DNS poisoning attack presented last year targets big DNS > servers with millions of request a day, while the attacker in this case > might need to physically move to many different (small) networks if he > needs more traffic. > > A. > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
