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Originally Posted by AndyCalling
Problem is, calling the support or fault line is not going to help. They will not have anything to say if VM have made no announcements and will likely not be in a position to call up the Virgin WPA2-collapse Rapid Response Team  . Anyone here able to send up a flare to VM? We at least need to know which generation routers are going to be updated so we can call up and get a replacement if necessary so we can switch the wifi back on one day. |
Just thinking about this some more.
I appreciate what the link you provided indicates however you should be aware that there is no public exploit code as yet and this is not something that we're going to see people 'war dialing' to exploit. It is a targeted attack from someone physically close, it's not exploitable over the Internet.
Keep it in context. I am quite sure you have some far more major security issues with the software, etc, you use. If you are concerned do upgrade all devices you can - the patch for clients ensures they don't allow the attacks to work.
If I or anyone else remotely educated really wanted to get at your Internet traffic there's not a whole lot you can do about it, this flaw being fixed or not, other than not use WiFi ever and use end to end encryption on everything. You weren't paranoid to the point where you disabled WiFi before this, don't be now.
It's the classic case of 'How many enemies do you actually have?!'. Unless a nation state or a major company with few morals has a reason to be interested in you, in which case to do this they'd need your home address anyway and there were all kinds of ways they could've compromised you, you're probably fine.
Keep calm and WiFi on.