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Build an Open Source Network Sniffer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whats-that-smell-sniff-sniff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article reviews common issues of wireless security, and shows how to use open source software to suss out wireless networks, get information about them, and start recognizing common security problems. You will learn how build a lightweight wireless sniffer that runs on open source software and see how simple it is to interact with wireless networks."

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  1. Related question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where can I find a cheap (at least $20, possibly with rebates involved) wireless card that has RFMON-capable drivers in Linux?

    Why is it so hard to find a card that Kismet can use for lightweight wireless sniffing? (None of the new cheap cards are prisms anymore - they must've caught on.)

  2. Re:Pfft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do you work for microsoft? Nah even that's too good for you

    you probably work at the Box Factory.

  3. Don't surf 'n drive! by AchilleTalon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "During testing for this article, I had a recurring problem: my equipment kept accidentally picking up networks other than the ones I wanted to test. In fact, my laptop has found wireless networks to associate with while I'm traveling on the freeway!"

    I wonder which freeway it was. I drived Montreal down to Dover DE, crossing Newark NY and Albany NY and I left kismet open and I never picked a signal. Maybe I was driving too fast. ;-)

    --
    Achille Talon
    Hop!
  4. Suss... by SunPin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is not a word.

    Please use real words to encourage people to care.

    --
    Laws are for people with no friends.
  5. you 7akil it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Th3 curtains fleWw FreeBSD showed

  6. I have travelled from 5 years in the future... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's right, I'm a space man from the future and I have come here to tell you some important WiFi facts.

    In our world of the future, 5 years away from your own, the future genious of id fame Brian Hook has made it known that wireless stuff can be a security problem if your settings are too low.

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