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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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Wi Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap 2002-07-29
JP
Yes -imagine the potential confrontation:

A few lines of code to parse off the first 3 bytes of the evesdropper's MAC address. Use those to look up the vendor of the WLAN card: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

Knowing the card and recognizing it visually could help identify the cul...

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