Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't a brute force attack, its a dictionary attack. A brute force attack would go through every iterattion, like 00001, 00002...
As a followup we will demonstrate that technically advanced attacks on the ssh protocol are unnecessary when we are breaking in to a predetermined account with the password 'aardvark'.
How is this news? Connecting to a WPA protected AP to brute force a single character (256 times) isn't particularly impressive or useful. The speed at which the connects happen still make this impractical for large-scale attacks (or, attacks on an entire keyphrase).
I've been wondering why know one hasn't written an application yet that breaks into a W-Lan Network as an alternative to typing in a password.<p>Obviously there are some legal considerations in certain countries regarding development, possession and usage of such an application but the risk seems to be rather small if you restrict network services, change the MAC and use End-to-End encryption. Besides you might even get away with calling it a tool for penetration tests.