Thought: A WPS-owner-upper with Tweets and Google Maps

By stoffe 28 Apr, 2015

I’ve been playing with this thought for a while, I do not have the skill set or the RaspberryPi necessary to actually put this into play. Yet.

A smallish board of Raspberry (I or II+) size together with a (few) USB WiFi High Powered dongle(s) and some piece of coding, the Blackjack attack could be used. With only 18 packets over the air, you could essentially get WPA/WPA2 passwords for each WPS-enabled device you could stumble across within seconds, there is a lot of them out there since most broadband router manufacturer thinks that WPS is the shit (and also reduces the pressure on their support).

What would be needed?

  • RaspberryPi or similar.
  • High-powered WiFi USB-dongles
  • Battery-pack to run devices off-grid, like in a backpack.
  • Airsnort-ng, Reaver and a few other packages
  • 3G/LTE USB-dongle for internet access

Anyone with a little time and effort could pull this off, as the equipment is cheap and available, the software is free and the desire to hack is endless.

Swede, father, husband and tinkerer of software and hardware. Intarwebs is my playground, avid podcast listener and contributor at PodcastIndex.org