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Re:Ask HN: Is Public WiFi Dangerous? by zoover2020 on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:37PM (#30725874)
Oh boy, bring me back to the WEP-cracking Backtrack days as a kid.

I remember buying a network adapter with packet injection capabilities SPECIFICALLY for this haha

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Re:Ask HN: Is Public WiFi Dangerous? by joeyrobert on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:02PM (#30726165)
While I didn't do this myself, I remember watching Kevin Rose do this on his internet show thebroken. He talks about getting an orinoco PCMCIA wifi adapter because of their broad support for this kind of thing. If you want a blast from the past, you can watch them here: https://archive.org/details/thebroken_xvid
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