[kismac] Re: What in the world is going on? (Fake AP attack?)
- From: Lasse Vibe Jespersen <l.j@xxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 13:24:10 +0200
you can use this delicious gadget to find the nearly-exact location of
an ap.. http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6447/
enjoy.
/lasse
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 06:29, Galen wrote:
> OK, so the thought is that it's not a fake AP? Then what the heck is it?
>
> Also thinking, "wlanai" could be like "wireless LAN AI (artificial
> intelligence)" - but it's not very smart obviously.
>
> Is this something we'll see much of? If so, is there any way to block
> these? It's got pretty wide coverage and not terribly useful results
> with new MACs showing up every 1 second!
>
> I think I'm going to be doing some walk and knocking tomorrow after
> this storm passes. Perhaps this person is just looking for others
> interested in wifi like me...
>
> -Galen
>
> On May 7, 2004, at 9:11 PM, Theodore wrote:
>
> > a good properly done fakeap should have a different SSID, mac, and
> > channel every .25 seconds.. it even tries to change the output power.
> >
> > Theo
> >
> > Galen wrote:
> >> Perhaps I will need to go and do some knocking at places with patios!
> >> :)
> >> Anyone else have experience with these fake APs? Any chance KisMAC
> >> could have some kind of immunity or grouping - all APs under one SSID
> >> as "one"?
> >> Also, I forgot to mention that the AP didn't really change channels,
> >> as you can see from the .kismac file. It's all channel 10.
> >> -Galen
> >
> >
> >
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