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Why do people have to be so annoying to disturb your wifi with a wristbandwatch?

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Berni:
WiFi Deauth attacks are useful for a different reason.

They are usually paired with a access point spoffing device. So the deuath attack is used to kick users off the existing network and then when the device attempts to automatically reconnect you can have your spoofed AP hop in and let them connect to it. Repeat the process until everyone is on your fake AP and now you can do man in the middle attacks since all of the users traffic is passing trough hardware you control. So you can sniff the traffic or even modify it on the fly.

Then again a fair bit of hacking is focused on causing people inconvenience on purpose, so in that aspect just knocking the wifi offline is considered success for those. This is no different than DDOSing a website, just on a smaller scale.

timenutgoblin:

--- Quote from: eti on May 03, 2022, 12:43:41 am ---Totally off-topic, but that text formatting... wow... a new paragraph for every sentence? Please format it in a more readable manner, thank you :)

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To be fair, not all word processing programs use the default line spacing of '1'. Some word processors have a line spacing of 2 or more lines making the start of a new sentence appear to look like a new paragraph has been started instead.

tooki:

--- Quote from: eti on May 03, 2022, 12:43:41 am ---Totally off-topic, but that text formatting... wow... a new paragraph for every sentence? Please format it in a more readable manner, thank you :)

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And at least it’s not hard line breaks, which some people here do under the mistaken impression that this is a good idea, so that lines aren’t crazy wide, not realizing that line breaks aren’t the same across devices (and that the correct way to correct an excessive line width is to resize your damned browser window rather than run everything maximized at all times.)

The result, when viewing on mobile or with a window made narrow, is text that looks like this:

There were ten in the bed and the little one said: “Roll over, [soft line break]
roll over!” So [hard line break]
they all rolled over and one fell out. There were nine in the
bed and the
little one said: “Roll over, roll over!” So they all rolled over
and one fell
out. There were eight in the bed and the little one said: “Roll
over,
roll over!” So they all rolled over and one fell out. […]

newbrain:

--- Quote from: 2N3055, edited by newbrain on May 03, 2022, 07:34:04 am ---Wow and lo and behold there was a hacker an asshole there.....

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There, FTFY.
If you buy that kind of implement, the suspicion you are an asshole is high: a hacker will generally buy a cheaper and more convenient dev board for experimenting.
If you use it without authorization, there is no doubt, you are definitely an asshole.


--- Quote from: Brumby on May 02, 2022, 12:37:08 am ---INAL - but I suspect he could have found himself in some hot water if he was pulled up on that by officialdom.

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IANAL too*, but in Sweden they would assuredly be in breach of the LEK (Law on Electronic Communication): you are not allowed to even possess jamming equipment of any sort**, much less use it, and this falls squarely in the category.

So, an asshole, and quite probably a criminal too - not a hacker in my book.

* But I recently had to study a tiny bit to get my ham radio license.
** To study jamming resilience for some of our devices, there were quite a lot of legal hoops to jump.

Brumby:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on May 03, 2022, 01:52:08 am ---*NOW* I know why Dave wont let us have a Dislike button, because I'd have a hard time resisting using it on posts like your 💩 'specimen' above.

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Then you might be pleased to know that it reeeeeally cause me to cringe all through the effort.

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