Originally posted here by Xenon
I just remembered. Wanna play a good joke on a script kiddie???

Search Google for FakeAP.

This is a program that uses PrismII cards to generate thousands of fake AP beacons. Netstumbler will pop up thousands of access points!!

I tested this thing out on a friend of mine. The look on his face was priceless.

FakeAP is not a viable security option though (security through obscurity)


~Xe

Yes. Kismet is phenomenal. Definatly the standard for Linux warXing.
This may not be an option for security (nothing should ever be a substitute for good security), but it's a good deterrent. If you're looking at millions of available networks as a skidiot only to find that most of them are bunk, would you sit there mindlessly plunking away at each network looking for a good one, or would you move on to a more readily available target?

I also wonder if this technology (FakeAP) could be utilized to construct some honeypots. Kind of like WAP minefields that could communicate with other attempted networks to triangulate the origin of the skidiot and report the vulnerable location in long/lat coordinates?