Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap

Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-07-29

War drivers beware, the next wireless network you tap might be part of an elaborate sting.

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Anonymous

Ummm... Wrong JP. MAC Addresses on a wireless card are a joke. The MAC Address can be changed to whatever you want it to be, and thus any results garnished by this system would be invalid. Most wardrivers know this. I change my MAC address any time I wardrive to something random...and sometimes I set the first three octets to FF:FF:FF, but not always.

Second, this exercise is neither new nor special. I've had my personal wireless honeypot running for at least nine months now, and unlike these jokers, I've got one hit by a hacker (know it was a hacker because they took out one of my targets and uploaded a new webpage.)

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