In contrast to T-Mobile’s antipathy  towards VoIP services, I see that UK-based WiFi hotspot provider The Cloud is actually in partnership with Skype and Vonage, so clearly they see VoIP as an important component of their business. However, as has been discussed in recent weeks on our VOIPSEC list, security of VoIP is only as good as the security of the platform itself and of the network that carries the VoIP traffic.

The latest security worries for WiFi have just been aired in a Computer World article.  Some researchers will give a talk at the Black Hat conference on how to crash or hack WiFi drivers.  In particular, they have used a fuzzing technique (which David Endler wrote about recently) using a tool called LORCON to expose flaws in the WiFi driver.  The article suggests that LORCON is even a tool simple enough to use for script kiddies.

The life of WiFi has been punctuated by stories of insecurity, including Evil Twinning (where criminals impersonate a bona fide WiFi service), the use of Netstumbler to find unsecured WLANs and endless stories about the insecurity of WEP.  But as Virgil Gligor said at the recent VoIP Security Workshop, the history of computing is full of examples of new technologies that are used for a long period, perhaps ten years, before all of the related insecurities get found and fixed.