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I beg to differ. I was doing this at 15 or 16 years old in 2006 when it was still called backtrack. So long as you had a mainstream laptop, the most difficult p
by rxhernandez 9y ago
I beg to differ. I was doing this at 15 or 16 years old in 2006 when it was still called backtrack. So long as you had a mainstream laptop, the most difficult part was buying a compatible wireless card.
To note, the extent of my technical abilities at that time wasn't much beyond being able to install a mainstream linux distribution or write a simple program in C.
- maxerickson 9y agoYeah, I used Backtrack to show my brother that his big complex password didn't mean anything if he was using WEP (this was quite a while ago). On a pretty standard laptop (intel chipset/CPU/GPU/Wireless) it booted right up with no effort.
- aerovistae 9y agoRegrettably it didn't work out that way for me. I had a brand new macbook air at the time I tried this. When I booted into Kali, I was unable to access the network settings at all[1], period, let alone get any packet sniffing going. I couldn't even connect to the internet. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273941/missing-network-manager-in-kali-linux https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273941/missing-netw...
- danieka 9y agoThanks for the nostalgia trip. We must be about the same age and I remember hitting up local corporations that had WEP encrypted networks and offering them my help in improving their security. Felt like a real security expert then ;) I'm out of that loop now but security sure did seem a lot easier to get a grip on at that time.