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The knowledge and equipment to hack WiFi-related systems is a lot easier to obtain on most of the world than the cellular equivalent.

In the US, at least, tampering with cell service risks getting the FCC involved, so very few people do it compared to WiFi hacking.

I'm very curious, for example, if the devices that connect to these APs are vulnerable to the WiFi client isolation bypass that was disclosed about a week ago.[1] That seems a lot scarier when there are potentially thousands of random people's personal phones connecting to the same WiFi infrastructure instead of a bunch of more or less trusted corporate devices in an office.

[1] https://github.com/vanhoefm/macstealer



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