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		solardev on Oct 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage cam... I think that's a different attack, where you could passively sniff wifi traffic from networks without WEP. I meant more just hosting your own hotspot with a popular name, forcing clients to connect to it via disconnect/reconnect attacks, and then you're essentially a tiny MITM ISP that can monitor all their unencrypted traffic

lxgr on Oct 26, 2023 [–]

> hosting your own hotspot with a popular name, forcing clients to connect to it via disconnect/reconnect attacks

You can only do that for unencrypted networks or those for which you know the passphrase, though.

solardev on Oct 26, 2023 | [–]

Yes, like most public hotspot in cafes, schools, libraries, etc where the password is readily shared.

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