{"id":6631,"date":"2017-10-22T06:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2021-07-30T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:48:00","slug":"the-recent-catastrophic-wi-fi-vulnerability-was-in-plain-sight-for-13-years-behind-a-corporate-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/the-recent-catastrophic-wi-fi-vulnerability-was-in-plain-sight-for-13-years-behind-a-corporate-paywall\/","title":{"rendered":"The recent catastrophic Wi-Fi vulnerability was in plain sight for 13 years behind a corporate paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 600; font-size: 125%;\">The recent Wi-Fi \u201cKRACK\u201d vulnerability, which allowed anyone to get onto a secure network (and which was quickly patched by reputable vendors), had been in plain sight behind a corporate-level paywall for 13 years. This raises a number of relevant, interesting, and uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n<p>When this week\u2019s KRACK wi-fi vulnerabity hit, I saw a series of tweets from Emin G\u00fcr Sirer, who\u2019s mostly tweeting on bitcoin topics but seemed to know something many didn\u2019t about this particular Wi-Fi vulnerability: it had been in plain sight, but behind paywalls with corporate level fees, for <em>thirteen years<\/em>. That\u2019s how long it took open source to catch up with the destructiveness of a paywall.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this case, close scrutiny of the protocol would have (and in fact, did) uncovered the nonce reuse issues, but didn't happen for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emin G\u00fcn Sirer (@el33th4xor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/el33th4xor\/status\/919899697715798016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, WPA2 was based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers\">IEEE<\/a> standards, which are locked up behind subscription fees that are so steep that open source activists and coders are just locked out from looking at them.\u00a0This, in turn, meant that this vulnerability was in plain sight for anybody who could afford to look at it for almost a decade and a half. There are so many issues and followup questions on this, it deserves at least two more articles on the same topic, just for headlines to cover one important point at a time (yes, that\u2019s necessary today).<\/p>\n<p>This also means that one of two things were true: one, those who <em>could<\/em> afford to look at it didn\u2019t bother to look at it, or two, those who would bother to look at it and understand it couldn\u2019t afford to do so. Both are problematic. (There\u2019s also a third option, even more problematic, below \u2013 when an actor who can both afford and understand it keeps the research to themselves as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zero-day_(computing)\">zero-day sploit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The first obvious point is that <em>security doesn\u2019t work if it\u2019s not out in the open<\/em>. If this wasn\u2019t the final nail in the coffin for security through obscurity \u2013 where paywalls are definitely included in the <em>obscurity<\/em> concept \u2013 then I don\u2019t know what would be.<\/p>\n<p>The second point is that this isn\u2019t the only standard we rely on for security that is based on locked-up evidence of security. As has been shown, it may be that each component of the security stack passed its unit test, but the integration tests clearly were insufficient. In other words, it doesn\u2019t matter if all proofs of security come out right, if you\u2019re not sure you\u2019ve proven the whole system to be secure (as opposed to just individual pieces of it). We can expect several more severe vulnerabilities to be in plain sight behind corporate paywalls.<\/p>\n<p>The third point, which is going to be expanded in the first followup article, is that while ordinary activists and coders were locked out of reviewing these documents, the NSA and the like had no shortage of budget to pay for subscriptions to these specifications. Thus, the IEEE\u2019s paywall was lopsiding the security field toward mass surveillance, away from security.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth point, which also merits expansion, is that if something as severe as this was unread for thirteen years because it was behind a paywall \u2014 what does that say about legacy media\u2019s current infatuation with paywalls to protect their \u201cgenuine journalism\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Wi-Fi \u201cKRACK\u201d vulnerability, which allowed anyone to get onto a secure network (and which was quickly patched by reputable vendors), had been in plain sight behind a corporate-level paywall for 13 years. This raises a number of relevant, interesting, and uncomfortable questions. 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