The first is it is talking about connecting to cell phone networks, not WiFi (the best protection against DOS attacks on a wireless network is a baseball bat and a firewall).

How will you locate the device causing the DoS in a WiFi network? If you don't know the location, your baseball bat won't do much (good|harm). Also, a firewall won't do anything to protect against a deauthentication DoS attack on WiFi (which is one of the most efficient, if not the most efficient, DoS attacks known to date).

May I suggest adding a reference to the GPL-licenced software pyrit in the summary? It might be useful for people to know that a) Elcomsoft is not the first to implement this and b) a free software implementation exists (currently only for NVIDIA, but they are planning ATI support).

"Redmond's real goal may be simply to poach people from Yahoo, and this deal could help them do just that.'"

I think not. It's more likely that Google would do so, I expect that their recruiters are quite busy calling Yahoo employees at the moment. If this is Microsoft's goal they've just aimed a double-barreled shotgun at their feet and pulled the trigger. They just gave their no. 1 competitor a huge opportunity. Where would you, as a brilliant Yahoo employee, work next? Google or Microsoft?