gruggni
Oxygen Gets You High
join:2003-07-28
Corpus Christi, TX
| No need to panic
Tools like this have been around for a while. You only need to use the tool if someone has encryption turn on. Majority of residential wifi networks are already open. Really no need for worries. Very few wifi networks are actually encrypted.
Tools like this are used to break encryption. Anyone with malicious intent will just go to the open wifi network instead of an encrypted one. Breaking encryption takes time.
How else do you test encryption works? You make a tool to break it. If someone is trying to sell me wifi equipment and they say its secure, I want a way to test the encryption instead of taking someones word for it.
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Rhobite
Premium
join:2002-02-24
Cambridge, MA
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| This tool has NOTHING to do with breaking encryption. It's a password-gathering tool, it puts up a fake login page just like you'd get from a T-Mobile or Verizon hotspot. Hotspots don't use WEP or WPA anyway, they are unencrypted. This tool just makes it easy to set up a rogue AP and fish for people's logins. The reason you can't just passively sniff for passwords is that I assume the real login pages are sent over SSL. Although I've never used a pay hotspot so I could be wrong. |
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