Wireless Camouflage?

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."

Comments

Re:Physical security

[zrodney]

... 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

Not much help unless your network is unused..

[funky womble]

This won't do anything to hide an active network, people will just look at the data traffic instead of the beacons.

From the trenches..

[Render_Man]

As a wardriver, I think that this would definatly confuse and annoy anyone driving around.

However I've noticed that companies with wireless AP's tend to be in clusters in close vicinity to each other. I'm just wondering what the effects on the persons neighboor would be. I could just see someone running this and just confusing the hell out of his neighboors. It would be even worse if the fake broadcasts were on different channels, then there would be real chaos with legit users.

Fun to play with, but not practical for production since a determined attacker would wade through the data to get your real SSID

Just my $0.02