What is your opinion on the morality of running this, compared to the morality of data collection by a small blog for advertising and analytics?
Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to
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#12What is your opinion on the morality of running this, compared to the morality of data collection by a small blog for advertising and analytics?
Like almost everything in life, it depends on your intentions.
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#13trackerjacker also provides a simple python plugin system that makes it trivial to extend to do all sorts of interesting things (e.g. to look for anomalous wifi devices). One of my original use-cases was to trigger my sirens if a security camera detected motion (based on a data thresholds that uploading a video triggers). I demoed this at Thotcon and DEFCON this year and will be demoing it at Derbycon in October.
i plan on setting up an "IoT sentinel" daemon on my router: it would just watch my home network and let me know if my toaster has joined a botnet, based on suspicious network activity. is trackerjacker the right tool for me?
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#14I'm trying to use this, but I cannot get it to see anything by following the examples. Will this work with any wifi card on linux or only with certain ones? Perhaps not all cards support monitor mode? I have an Intel 7260 card.
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#15trackerjacker also provides a simple python plugin system that makes it trivial to extend to do all sorts of interesting things (e.g. to look for anomalous wifi devices). One of my original use-cases was to trigger my sirens if a security camera detected motion (based on a data thresholds that uploading a video triggers). I demoed this at Thotcon and DEFCON this year and will be demoing it at Derbycon in October.
Have you looked at MAC randomization filtering at all? It should be easy to filter based on probe vs established.
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#16I'm trying to use this, but I cannot get it to see anything by following the examples. Will this work with any wifi card on linux or only with certain ones? Perhaps not all cards support monitor mode? I have an Intel 7260 card.
Not all cards support monitor mode. I have some recommended cards at the bottom of the README.md file.
Re: Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to
#17trackerjacker also provides a simple python plugin system that makes it trivial to extend to do all sorts of interesting things (e.g. to look for anomalous wifi devices). One of my original use-cases was to trigger my sirens if a security camera detected motion (based on a data thresholds that uploading a video triggers). I demoed this at Thotcon and DEFCON this year and will be demoing it at Derbycon in October.
Have you looked at MAC randomization filtering at all? It should be easy to filter based on probe vs established.
Just lightly. Seems difficult to detect for sure, but probabilistically some insights could be gained.
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#18trackerjacker also provides a simple python plugin system that makes it trivial to extend to do all sorts of interesting things (e.g. to look for anomalous wifi devices). One of my original use-cases was to trigger my sirens if a security camera detected motion (based on a data thresholds that uploading a video triggers). I demoed this at Thotcon and DEFCON this year and will be demoing it at Derbycon in October.
i plan on setting up an "IoT sentinel" daemon on my router: it would just watch my home network and let me know if my toaster has joined a botnet, based on suspicious network activity. is trackerjacker the right tool for me?
That's an ideal use-case of trackerjacker. Another good one (that I'm meaning to write a better plugin for) is to alert on anomalous devices nearby. I have a draft of that plugin here: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/trackerjacker/blob/master/p.... It might also serve as a prototype for what you're trying to accomplish.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like almost everything in life, it depends on your intentions.
like the ends justifies the means?
More like the context determines if something is evil or not. For example, if I'm listening for drones flying around my house so I can deauth them to prevent them from spying on me, I would say that is justified, but if I monitor people to determine when they are home so I know when to break into their house, that would most likely be a bad usage.