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Wi-Fi Penetration Tester In Your Pocket

Posted by kdawson on from the happy-to-see-me? dept.

00*789*00 writes "ZDNet has a story about the public launch of Immunity's Silica, a portable hacking device that can search for and join 802.11 (Wi-Fi) access points, scan other connections for open ports, and automatically launch code execution exploits from a built-in exploit platform."

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  1. What I like to do... by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... is leave dozens of wireless routers lying around, switched on, broadcasting trivially encrypted 'networks' to the surroundings - except not have anything connected to them. No internet, no servers, no ethernet cable, nothing.

    The real network is hidden, strongly encrypted and using 802.11n. Beat that, hackers!

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  2. Legality? by Zeek40 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would think that the Digital Make everyone a Criminal Act would prevent a company from marketing a device like this...

  3. Dupe or Followup? by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember something about this before. Yup, it was about Silica then too.

    I posted a theory about sending one to yourself through the mail activated and with a GPS so that the postal delivery vehicle does your wardriving for you. I called it warsmailing. So far no results on Google of anyone attempting it using that term.

    (Why do I keep being prompted to save a download of comments.pl when I Submit?)

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  4. Nokia 770 + Kismet by ivlad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think, the $3600 device is nothing more, but a Nokia 770 (that is clear from the photos) runnig GUI for Kismet or some sort of other Wifi scanner.

    Good margin! ;)