All Dan Kaminsky wanted was to get free wifi at Starbucks. Instead, he discovered the ultimate hack - a security flaw coded into the very DNA of DNS, and with it:
"... a moment hackers around the world dream of ... a tool that could give them unimaginable power."
It's now known as the Kaminsky attack - an elegant, simple, virtually undetectable maneuver that had been overlooked by the godfathers of DNS for 25 years. By exposing it, Kaminsky may - MAY - have short circuited the mother of all hacks.
Read Joshua Davis' entertaining, dramatic and frightening account of the discovery, response and unveiling of the Kaminsky attack on Wired.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kaminsky?currentPage=a
And the next time someone asks you to keep an eye on their laptop as they go to the washroom at Starbucks, remember, they might just be taking a break from saving the world.
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