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WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

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Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not clear that a corridor inside an access controlled building is a public place.

Edit: it seems it is divided and cases have gone both ways in regards to expectation of privacy in apartment buildings: https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2018-no-3/fourth-ame...

Private clubs include many authorized families and people, yet they are not public. Your definition of public space seems very off...

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

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In Norway/Oslo there is a lot of people with equipment sending deauthentication packages, jamming neighboring equipment, and one of the main reason for slow Internet (lot of jitter). Did some research on this together with The Norwegian Communications Authority (NKOM) to isolate the problem. If you want to check for yourself if someone close by i sending deauthentication packages; fire up a Mac and: 1. Open Wi-Fi-dia…

Why might this be a phenomena in Oslo?

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

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post #30

I think the title should be changed to something like "how to protect your privacy with Wifi deauthentication". Incidentally, I was considering one of these devices as an addition to my home automation setup, then I realized that it would not be cool to monitor every person getting out of the elevators on my floor.

I suppose the idea of the article is to resist your neighbours monitoring you as you come home? That is actually a pretty good idea. Also, deauth isn't anything new and you don't have to 'hack' anything in aircrack-ng since all of the tools for this are available out of the box, with nice configuration to select what has to be included and what excluded from deauth.

If you want to do this against arbitrary endpoints without knowing the channel they're on you can't just parse airodump-ng output and pass that to aireplay-ng - it takes too long. The hack is just to automate this within the same process.

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

#35

In Norway/Oslo there is a lot of people with equipment sending deauthentication packages, jamming neighboring equipment, and one of the main reason for slow Internet (lot of jitter). Did some research on this together with The Norwegian Communications Authority (NKOM) to isolate the problem. If you want to check for yourself if someone close by i sending deauthentication packages; fire up a Mac and: 1. Open Wi-Fi-dia…

Why might this be a phenomena in Oslo?

Probably a problem elsewhere also, just not cooperated with someone to check

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

#36

Did I read the article correctly in that it is possible to disrupt WiFi networks to make devices disconnect from it, without breaking its encryption? Wow.

When I was an edgy kid staying in hotels with shitty WiFi on vacation with my family, I would use a tool like this on Android to boot people off the WiFi and “clear up” some room.

Not proud of it today of course, but fun times ;)

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: it seems it is divided and cases have gone both ways in regards to expectation of privacy in apartment buildings: https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2018-no-3/fourth-ame...

Private clubs include many authorized families and people, yet they are not public. Your definition of public space seems very off...

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Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

#38

Did I read the article correctly in that it is possible to disrupt WiFi networks to make devices disconnect from it, without breaking its encryption? Wow.

Not only that,you don't have to be in close range when attacking, weak signal that won't get you connected or even shown up in the list is enough to make it work, you can stay even farther if you have high gain antennas, as this attack doesn't require your response packets to work, you just have to send the target AP one-way fake frames.

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

#39

In Norway/Oslo there is a lot of people with equipment sending deauthentication packages, jamming neighboring equipment, and one of the main reason for slow Internet (lot of jitter). Did some research on this together with The Norwegian Communications Authority (NKOM) to isolate the problem. If you want to check for yourself if someone close by i sending deauthentication packages; fire up a Mac and: 1. Open Wi-Fi-dia…

Why are people actually doing this on a wide scale?

Re: WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: it seems it is divided and cases have gone both ways in regards to expectation of privacy in apartment buildings: https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2018-no-3/fourth-ame...

Do you have case law citations for that?

It looks like it is quite divided and could go either way at least wrt apartment buildings: https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2018-no-3/fourth-ame...
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