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Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record by Saus on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:15AM (#20939160)
I've bought an Alfa adapter 10+ years ago because you can use them in promiscuous mode. So you can snoop wifi traffic, listen for handshakes and doing so crack WEP/WPA (wifi) encryption.

Things probably haven't changed..

Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record by mises on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:50AM (#20940176)
They have a little. 5ghz is more common, so you won't get any thing there. WPA2 is significantly harder to crack, and I usually do it on GPU with pyrit or hashcat-ocl and a wordlist. WPA3 is out now, too, and I'm there aren't really any well-established procedures for it yet.
Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record by TrueDuality on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:16PM (#20942472)
Just FYI WPA2 is pretty solidly and quickly broken (lookup KRACK attacks). WPA3 is unfortunately already partially broken (though currently joining the network / password breaking aren't fully broken, see Dragonblood attacks).
Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record by mises on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:50AM (#20950825)
KRACK was a nonce re-use, not a core protocol flaw. WPA2's flaws are more around un-encrypted control packets; i.e. I can de-auth you without having to get session keys.
Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record by dayofthedaleks on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:27PM (#20947642)
KRACK is patched on most platforms.

What weaknesses in WPA2 remain?

Re:Edward Snowden: Permanent Record by jgrowl on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:54AM (#20940228)
This was a popular adapter more recently because of the WPS pin exploit using something like the reaver tool.