Hello,

I was kind of joking, but if you want to investigate the feasibility of
a WiFi virus, I think this is *not* science-fiction.

> With a laptop you have to sit down, open it up, power it on, wait for it
> to boot, etc...

Most people use the "hibernation" feature of their laptop. This also
means that your virus does not have to worry about surviving a reboot.

In my case, I use my laptop during conferences, where there are about
100 laptops in a 200m range. Then I use it on the plane way back home
(and I am not the only one on board). Then I use it at home (about 10
WiFi networks are detectable from my bedroom, some of them do not even
use WEP). Then I bring it back to the office, where I attend meetings.

So IMHO it is nearly surprising that existing viruses do not include
"ad-hoc" networks detection and infection :)

> I wouldn't mind seeing or contributing to a bluetooth honeypot that
> would run on a Symbian
> of PocketPC OS that people could use to collect samples so a 3rd party
> infection count could be
> established.

The Trifinite group masters this technology, they call it "BluePot".
http://trifinite.org/blog/archives/2005/04/index.html
I wonder how many samples they captured ...

Regards,
- Nicolas RUFF

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