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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by jaimex2 on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:51PM (#18935416)
Retailers and government do this, sometimes they track you as you move around. Pry-Fi is a great little app if you have an Android phone and root :D

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...

Basically just blasts thousands of MAC addresses into the air flooding their counters and ruining their data.

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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by oda on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:44PM (#18935759)
https://github.com/wi-fi-analyzer/mdk3-master might be a better tool for the job
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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by pbhjpbhj on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:37PM (#18935713)
Which makes me wonder, how well does Wifi handle DoS via DHCP requests for an IP?
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