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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. A much simpler solution... by ihowson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that doesn't eat up bandwidth on your network, is to simply disable beacons on your AP. Having thousands of beacons sent makes it fairly obvious that there's an actual AP somewhere in the area, and there are other ways to determine the real network name.

    Admittedly, not all AP's allow beacons to be disabled. But then, Kismet doesn't need them at all to detect networks.

  2. Contaminated Coffee. by perlyking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I the only one who saw this and thought of Starbucks?
    :-)

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    no sig.
  3. Public doesn't mean unregulated by Jim+McCoy · · Score: 3, Interesting
    1) WarChalking &| WarDriving are not crimes, the bands used by 802.11 are *public airspace* they belong to *everyone* not *anyone*.


    Just because something is public does not mean that rules do not apply to this public space. A park is a public space but there are rules about how you can use it, the unlicensed spectrum used by 802.11b is available for anyone to use but you are still required to follow FCC regulations regarding how you operate within this spectrum. There are rules that dictate how your wireless card operates, how much power it can put into it's signal, etc.


    In fact, it might be wise of you to consider this in terms of another user of this particular segment of the spectrum -- cordless phones operating at 2.4 GHz. The signal goes out over the same unlicensed spectrum band, but if you were to create a base station which prevented your neighbors from using their cordless phone handsets (even if it was accidental) you could be fined for violating the FCC rules regarding this slice of the spectrum. If you were to monitor and record a transmission between the base station and remote node you would be breaking the law. If you created a phone handset that masqueraded as your neighbors handset and used his phone base station (and phone line) for your calls you would be breaking the law. Both offenses can bring stiff fines and jail terms, something that aggressive wardrivers and 802.11b access point "borrowers" might want to keep in mind...