My hacking knowledge and experience started with WiFi hacking (and linux ofcourse). It was about the time of the OP and the tool was far from dead back then. Key for success with Reaver is a good wifi adapter, target and the right syntax given. In my experience, there are 3 general ways to hack a WiFi network:
1. By abusing the WPS feature with the pixiedust algorithm or pincode guessing based on MAC and vendor information (mostly mitigated nowadays)
2. By capuring the handshake after a deauth attack and cracking the handshake with a tool like hashcat and a good wordlist (mitigated in WPA3)
3. By creating an evil twin AP and deauth attack on the original AP. Ideally with a webserver running that suits either the manufacturer of the attacked router or the ISP (still possible, Fluxion is/was a great tool for this).
There is also a Russian website with SSID's and passwords from every country, city in the world (more or less). Not sure if it still exists.
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