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Smart thief would just flood the WiFi network with deauth packets since everyone is using these things over WiFi. Disabled it before you even have to be in view
by bronco21016 7y ago
Smart thief would just flood the WiFi network with deauth packets since everyone is using these things over WiFi. Disabled it before you even have to be in view.
- c0restraint 7y agoRemind me:don’t you need to be connected to the WPA2 WiFi router to send deauth packets?
- judge2020 7y agoActually no, you can send deauth without already knowing the key. It's a good way to force clients onto your rogue AP and then obtain the key via captive portal. https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=deauthentication https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=deauthentication
- nkurz 7y agoNo, that would sort of defeat the purpose. The deauth's are commonly used to try to capture the connection handshake so that one can then (offline) try to figure out the network's password. The management frames (such as deauth) are not encrypted, and one needs only the easily eavesdropped details of client and server MAC to spoof them: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/190133/why-does-a-deauth-attack-work-on-wpa2-despite-encryption https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/190133/why-does...
- atomi 7y agoThere are also signal jammers which I believe are _highly_ illegal.
- PappaPatat 7y agoDepends entirely on the frequency, jurisdiction and purpose.
- beatgammit 7y agoSo is breaking and entering. I doubt most determined thieves are going to be deterred by something being illegal. Your typical junkie isn't going to do that, so you're mostly looking at attackers going after higher end neighborhoods or middle tier business campuses.