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Wireless Camouflage?

Posted by michael on from the difference-between-cover-and-concealment dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables. Fake AP is a proof of concept released under the GPL."

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  1. What's next? by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fake breasts?

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  2. Cacophany! by utdpenguin · · Score: 1, Funny
    I always admire a man who can use that word in a sentence.
    Kudos!!


    * bows to anonymous coward *

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  3. Re:Won't this kill available bandwidth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is 802.11b.
    There is no bandwidth anyhow :P

  4. Imagine . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    A beowulf cluster of these!


    hehehehe. THat joke never gets old.


    well not to me anyway.

  5. Physical security by trentfoley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's hope that this concept is never applied to physical security. Imagine working in an office/cubicle with 32 keyboards and 64 mice, rj45 and rj11 jacks everwhere, throw in some extra pc cases to fill every inch under your desk -- with only one of each that actually works

    1. Re:Physical security by zrodney · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... Imagine working in an office/cubicle with 32 keyboards and 64 mice, rj45 and rj11 jacks everwhere, throw in some extra pc cases to fill every inch under your desk -- with only one of each that actually works

      You must know the guy who set up our office network

  6. What a day... by Dannon · · Score: 4, Funny

    First, uncloaking networks. Then, invisible cloaks. Now, cloaking networks.

    Next thing you know, we'll see a post about the invention of visible cloaks.

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  7. Re:So who's going by laserjet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Our you could just secure your system(s). There are better ways to protect yourself than this. This is just obscurity. It is like trying to avoid sexually transmitted diseases by dressing as a transvestite. Sure, it may work, but there are much better solutions.

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  8. Re:Not much help unless your network is unused.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    This won't do anything to hide an active network, people will just look at the data traffic instead of the beacons.

    No, I'm a hacker, and I can tell you, this has us beat. Trust me on this one: this will work. I promise.

    Also, run your telnet daemon on port 123. That will stump us as well.