Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0

Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting... by TheCraiggers on Saturday October 19, 2019 @11:29PM (#21302168)

From the article: "ESP based deauthers, to name one, always existed. Don’t yell at us “OMG they’re deauthing all over the city!!!”. Despite this stuff always existing, nobody bothered updating to technologies that work better and are more secure. That is the people you should be yelling at."

I'm not saying you're wrong, or that they're right. However, it seems to me that there has to be a middle ground between draconian signed blobs (which I'm not convinced will solve much for long, either) and the silliness that is the current state of things. Deauths have been used in so many wifi cracking schemes over the years and the fact we still don't seem to care about them (or treat them as harmful interference and blame the device) is getting silly.

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Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting... by Avamander on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:33AM (#21303516)

802.11w has existed for a while, consumer routers not supporting it is what we should blame.

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Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting... by stefan_ on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:30AM (#21303499)

That's the point? You are not being a whiz-bang whitehat running around your neighborhood sending deauths. That is not a novel attack or research. Nothing is being learned. You are just a lowlife script kiddy fucking with the devices of your neighbors.

It's like running a GPS jammer from your car battery because "wow, GPS is so insecure and easily jammed at -90dB SNR!".

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Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting... by Avamander on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:34AM (#21303520)

To be fair, GNSS integrity should be a consumer feature.

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