kainchick Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Okay so yesterday Im out driving thru neighborhoods(We were looking for houses to buy to i brought my laptop for entertainment), and im going through neighborshoods with my laptop running netstumbler. Well today i was looking thru the logs. I had a channel 56 secured wireless internet named Mt. Rainier. Now mt. rainier is a mountain around here about maybe 50 or so miles from where i was. I think this might be a glitch in Netstumbler because i know the channels here in the states only go up to 11. But netstumbler sees it as a wep encrypted access point.It also has the nice little 001 as the being of the mac address that kinda tells me its a linksys router. So, Input anyone? -edit- okay so i looked around a little bit, apprently the router was a 802.11a. which apprently uses channels 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, and 64. instead of 1-11. or to 14 in some cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Don't know if this is actually related to your problem, but i have seen APs that broadcast a whole heaps of different fake SSIDs so that anybody scanning finds a big list of fake APs along with the real one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 oh ya, ive seen that before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 thats called honeypots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Don't know if this is actually related to your problem, but i have seen APs that broadcast a whole heaps of different fake SSIDs so that anybody scanning finds a big list of fake APs along with the real one. Ha Ha, I do that. Fake AP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 A friend of mine set up a fakeAP machine in the computer lab at school. It wreak havok with the school laptops, as they automatically connected to the strongest AP. Having one of those fancy SRC Cardbus 300 mW out cards didnt help the matter!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Fake AP What is Black Alchemy:"The Forrester Group did a survey of how much people were spending on IT security in 2000, and their estimate was that most Fortune 500 companies were spending .0025 percent of revenue. Now, if you spent .0025 - and incidentally, those companies spend more than that on coffee - you deserve to be hacked. And by the way, you will be." Love it. Simply love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 you deserve to be hacked. Simply Classic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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