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Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons
From: Rikairchy <blakcshadow () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:56:20 -0400
I'm thinking of picking up a few Raspberry Pis, I was wondering if they could be used as a way to track devices that search for wifi (unless this is passive only), and recognise "friendly" devices while notifying an administrator of foreign devices detected. Could this have any real world application? On Jul 17, 2014 7:37 PM, "Eric Rand" <eric.rand () brownhatsecurity com> wrote:
There's a project on github for just that kind of thing: https://github.com/DanMcInerney/wifijammer Regardless of the hardware you choose to use, however, keep in mind that you're going to be using a much higher fraction of the radio amplifier in the wifi adapter's time than normal use, so there will be proportionally greater power consumption. (Radio theory isn't really infosec, but is a design consideration for something like this; I can talk about it out-of-band if you need to know) On 07/16/2014 02:26 AM, Keira Cran wrote:Hey, It's great that companies like Apple recognising the threat of tracking people via their devices wifi cards' MAC addresses, by randomising them. Naturally, I wondered i it was possible to jam the measurement beacon by spoofing tons of wifi clients. At one point in London, there was an advertising firm with tracking bins [1] and I have a nice clip of a technician looking puzzled at one beacon trying to figure out what's wrong. (Unfortunately, it's bit too close to home (literally) to share.) In the US I believe some ad "analytics" firms like SenseNetworks do something similar. [2] Consider this a call to arms then, to put those unused raspberry pies you have lying around to good use. best, keira [1]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/city-london-corporation-spy-bins[2] http://sensenetworks.com/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/_______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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Current thread:
- Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Keira Cran (Jul 16)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Eric Rand (Jul 17)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Rikairchy (Jul 18)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Eric Rand (Jul 18)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Rikairchy (Jul 18)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Eric Rand (Jul 18)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Rikairchy (Jul 18)
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Eric Rand (Jul 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Jamming WiFi tracking beacons Dale Visser (Jul 17)