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I have never seen any client do this. Pretty sure even the noobest user would think twice about that one.

Still, the last pineapple firmware for it was released 3 years ago. There aren't many commercial wifi router companies that keep downloads around that long either. I know you won't be able to download the factory firmware for them from Alfa, I looked for it a year ago and it's not on their site anymore. You might be able to get a copy of it from someone here if you ask in the mk iv section. There's also openwrt firmware for it, haven't tried it though. https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/alfa.network/hornet-ub

In the US it's legal. It's just a wifi router. It's what you do with it that may be illegal.

Wait, you broke something you bought years ago, and now you want a refund? What kind of imaginary world do you live in? Maybe if you look at the wiki, you'd find the downloads for the firmware there. Then further searching this site, under the MK IV section, where this post should have been put, you'd find a link to Mr-Protocol's site that shows how to reflash it over a serial connection.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/MSI/GS40/stretch

http://wiki.wifipineapple.com/#!troubleshooting.md

If you know the passphrase, then you just set up the wifi like normal, then make sure you have the strongest signal available.

What I'm saying is EVERY smartphone out today collects personal data. Doesn't matter if you turn off wifi or not, that info still goes to Google, Microsoft or Apple. I'd say within the next 5 years or so, you won't be able to buy Windows, or Office. It will be subscription based, just like a lot of other software companies are doing. Microsoft is already leaning this way with Office. It's a pain in the ass to install a standalone version now. You have to register it with a valid email address. The serial number that comes in the box isn't the serial that gets installed. MacOS collects your data. They call it a backup, but whatever. Ubuntu by default collects your search history. Your ISP collects data. Hate to tell you this, but on the personal privacy thing, we've lost. Unless you live in a cabin in the woods somewhere with no services, someone is collecting data about you.

You must be one of those flip phone people I see every now and then.

Correct, or you have to know the passphrase.

I'm getting the same md5 when I check the file as Macninja with the downloaded firmware from the how-to. Not sure if the file has been updated or corrupted.

This has been asked many, many, many times. In short, no, this can't be done. Devices are smart enough to know not to connect to an access point if the security settings are different.

You can block facebook, twitter, etc without packet inspection, just block their ip addresses. Youtube is harder, they fall under Google's ip addresses, and I'm pretty sure that would cause an uprising if you blocked google!

You don't need deep packet inspection to block https sites. Block the adware sites and you'll knock down 90% of your malware. Most of our clients now only get malware off legit sites that have been either hacked, or are redirecting ads from elsewhere. These lists get updated every 12 hours on my firewalls, the firewall will deny both inbound and outbound traffic to these ip addresses.

Don't know, never seen a checkpoint firewall. I like it better than Sonicwall, Cisco, and Fortinet, which I've had the displeasure of working with. As for the deep packet inspection, yea, it can do it with a third party addon. Never been a fan of that though. Had to go to a client site we just acquired to disable it on a fortigate. It was breaking ssl, so no https was working. They only have one desktop at that site, and it's never done a windows update because of this!

Cloud services are great, until it's a cloudless day. Also, who's going to be looking at your data? You sure of that?

When I was still messing around with reflashing routers, tomato was probably one of the better versions.

Due to the general population not using terminology properly, let me fix a definition for you. If you brick the router, it's trash, the only use for it after that would be a brick. If something is "unbricked" then it wasn't bricked in the first place, it just got messed up and was difficult to fix. I don't know where this "unbricking" term came from, but it's annoying... Now, for the real answers to your questions. #1 Anything is brickable if you try hard enough! Don't do that. #2 I don't know of any real disadvantage between the two if you're just going to use it as a router. I think dd-wrt has better GUIs. #3 That model isn't supported.

That is cool!

None of the pineapples have a rtc.

That lora shield is pretty cool(i've not used one but 868 and 900mhz travels better). Would probably work if you're just using a terminal. Range is still iffy. Would still need directionals.

It doesn't communicate at all. They're pushing network packets over a 900mhz signal.

Yep, pfsense really is a professional firewall appliance/os, they just happen to give it away for free as well(no support). It's just as secure as any other firewall, which means it all depends on how it's set up.

As long as you have shell access to the target issue this command; nslookup myip.opendns.com

Hey, try this one if you can find it. Really good. Hacker nonfiction!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg