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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. Dumb. by Fat+Casper · · Score: 4, Informative
    Um... Why not secure the damn network instead?

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  2. MAC filter always worked for me by nowt · · Score: 3, Informative
    I have a 3com Airconnect AP (one of the earliest AP's available). It has MAC filtering for nics. For the odd time I have a new nic I want to use, I need to add the MAC addr to it to even get a signal.


    It seems to work very well and would foil would-be wardrivers.

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  3. Re:Very effective @ DCX by BeBoxer · · Score: 3, Informative

    and they had lots of dumb windows clients trying to associate with them

    Which is exactly why this is a bad idea. The software doesn't just send beacons. It requires to you install a driver which contains full AP functionality, and then starts configuring it with random MAC address and common, well known SSID's, every quarter second. Which means that anybody within range who happens to have "linksys", or "tsunami", or any of a handful of common SSID's is going to be out of luck when their laptop connects to whomever is running this Alchemy "tool". People who set up broken AP's with liberal (i.e. wide open) security are assholes. And that's exactly what this. software does.