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I’ve always wondered how commonly black hats clone and exploit mass deployed public SSIDs like the “xfinitywifi” network you see in all major US cities with xfi
by cj 3y ago
I’ve always wondered how commonly black hats clone and exploit mass deployed public SSIDs like the “xfinitywifi” network you see in all major US cities with xfinity.
Presumably you could get a lot of random devices to automatically connect and then hijack DNS to cause trouble.
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- solardev 3y agoEven if you hijacked DNS, most things are HTTPS now and you'd have to get a copy of a certificate from a trusted CA.
- lazide 3y agoAt least 50% of such APs I ran across didn’t work right. I chalk it up to broken implementation on the ISP side, but a decent number may be issues like this.