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If you're monitoring the encrypted wireless traffic of a wifi router without busting the encryption, then what good are IP addresses? Do you even see IP address
by jstalin 15y ago
If you're monitoring the encrypted wireless traffic of a wifi router without busting the encryption, then what good are IP addresses? Do you even see IP addresses if the traffic is encrypted. Wouldn't you just see MAC addresses? And even if you did "see" IP addresses, wouldn't you just see the wireless client and the router's IP addresses?
- mmmooo 15y agocorrect, you would not see IP header, if you were snooping encrypted wireless traffic. But thats not really what was described.. They describe a "wireless router monitoring device"...however I don't think think they mean "wireless router", but wireless "router". My guess, this is a physical 'wired' device, attached to, or installed in a router, that transmits data to nearby monitoring (FBI)agent 'wirelessly'. This is why they can see IP (wired, so no encryption), but can't see anything else (tor).
- greenyoda 15y agoRight. If you're the FBI and you have a warrant, you have access to the cable or wire coming out of the house and also to the ISP. There's no reason why you'd need to bother decrypting the transmissions between the user's computer and his wireless router. Although I've also read about the possibility that WPA wireless encryption can be cracked.