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Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks

245 points by punnerud 4y ago

usr1106 4y ago
Sounds interesting. So far I am mostly happy with Ethereal and mitmproxy. But maybe better stuff is out there? Experiences from users?
- antegamisou 4y ago
  I was about to suggest Wireshark until I looked up Ethereal and discovered it was the former's original name. Had no idea in the ~15 years I've been using it!!
  - codaphiliac 4y ago
    Now I feel old
  - usr1106 4y ago
    Ah sorry, I was still half asleep when typing the comment. I wondered why typing Ethereal felt somehow strange. Right, it has been called Wireshark for a while...
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
  Bettercap is very different than Wireshark because it's specificaly built with attacks in mind and it's not just a generic packet sniffer.
  - alanfranz 4y ago
    In fact bettercap is a very obvious pun on the venerable ettercap, I suppose.
    - rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
      Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by people with very questionable behaviour(do a google search for Hacking Team company).
      - mananaysiempre 4y ago
        ... That makes the code worse how? I’m not going to stop using or talking about Jordan algebras, say, even though Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one). It bears mentioning, certainly, and subtracts from the scientific merit (among other things) of the person, but has nothing to do with the scientific merit of the notion.
        rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
        >That makes the code worse how? I don't trust the authors to have the best intentions anymore, I would assume there's "bugdoors" they know about. A moot point anyway because ettercap has not been updated for years.
        zweifuss 4y ago
        > "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one)." That's an oversimplified account of his role in the Nazi era. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858
        graymatters 4y ago
        The article you reference, while an interesting memoir read, does not contradict the statement you disagree with and quote above. Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi. This is undisputed. His ideology preceded his joining of the Nazi party, which was not opportunistic at all, but deliberate. The article sheds little, if at all, light on the second part of the quoted statement.
j1elo 4y ago
The page about Bluetooth LE [1] shows a video [2] which is part of an article about hacking of a BT lock, but the link [3] is broken and doesn't work. It is readable in the web archive [4], but the archive has lots of broken images. It's a shame that this content went away so fast... say what you want about the typical blogspot or medium blog, but at least they tend to last longer than some personal websites :-( Can we read that article elsewhere, has it been made available in other site and just not updated in the Youtube description? [1]: https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/ https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/ [2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA [3]: https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-with-loccess/ https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-wit... [4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-with-loccess/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeoh...
- sickmate 4y ago
  https://archive.ph/sh7dE https://archive.ph/sh7dE
hyperific 4y ago
I want to say that bettercap is at the core of the pwnagotchi pwnagotchi.ai
- dontbenebby 4y ago
  Funny name, interesting project
snvzz 4y ago
Definitely a pun on Ettercap[0]. 0. https://www.ettercap-project.org/ https://www.ettercap-project.org/

245 points by punnerud 4y ago

Sounds interesting. So far I am mostly happy with Ethereal and mitmproxy. But maybe better stuff is out there? Experiences from users?

antegamisou 4y ago
I was about to suggest Wireshark until I looked up Ethereal and discovered it was the former's original name. Had no idea in the ~15 years I've been using it!!
- codaphiliac 4y ago
  Now I feel old
- usr1106 4y ago
  Ah sorry, I was still half asleep when typing the comment. I wondered why typing Ethereal felt somehow strange. Right, it has been called Wireshark for a while...
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
Bettercap is very different than Wireshark because it's specificaly built with attacks in mind and it's not just a generic packet sniffer.
- alanfranz 4y ago
  In fact bettercap is a very obvious pun on the venerable ettercap, I suppose.
  - rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
    Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by people with very questionable behaviour(do a google search for Hacking Team company).
    - mananaysiempre 4y ago
      ... That makes the code worse how? I’m not going to stop using or talking about Jordan algebras, say, even though Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one). It bears mentioning, certainly, and subtracts from the scientific merit (among other things) of the person, but has nothing to do with the scientific merit of the notion.
      - rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4y ago
        >That makes the code worse how? I don't trust the authors to have the best intentions anymore, I would assume there's "bugdoors" they know about. A moot point anyway because ettercap has not been updated for years.
      - zweifuss 4y ago
        > "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one)." That's an oversimplified account of his role in the Nazi era. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858
        graymatters 4y ago
        The article you reference, while an interesting memoir read, does not contradict the statement you disagree with and quote above. Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi. This is undisputed. His ideology preceded his joining of the Nazi party, which was not opportunistic at all, but deliberate. The article sheds little, if at all, light on the second part of the quoted statement.

j1elo 4y ago

The page about Bluetooth LE [1] shows a video [2] which is part of an article about hacking of a BT lock, but the link [3] is broken and doesn't work. It is readable in the web archive [4], but the archive has lots of broken images. It's a shame that this content went away so fast... say what you want about the typical blogspot or medium blog, but at least they tend to last longer than some personal websites :-( Can we read that article elsewhere, has it been made available in other site and just not updated in the Youtube description? [1]: https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/ https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/ [2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA [3]: https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-with-loccess/ https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-wit... [4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-with-loccess/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeoh...

sickmate 4y ago
https://archive.ph/sh7dE https://archive.ph/sh7dE

hyperific 4y ago

I want to say that bettercap is at the core of the pwnagotchi pwnagotchi.ai

dontbenebby 4y ago
Funny name, interesting project

snvzz 4y ago

Definitely a pun on Ettercap[0]. 0. https://www.ettercap-project.org/ https://www.ettercap-project.org/