Hot Sales In China For Wi-Fi Key-Cracking Kits 207
alphadogg writes "Dodgy salesmen in China are making money from long-known weaknesses in a Wi-Fi encryption standard, by selling network key-cracking kits for the average user. Wi-Fi USB adapters bundled with a Linux operating system, key-breaking software, and a detailed instruction book are being sold online and at China's bustling electronics bazaars. The kits, pitched as a way for users to surf the Web for free, have drawn enough buyers and attention that one Chinese auction site, Taobao.com, had to ban their sale last year. With one of the 'network-scrounging cards,' or 'ceng wang ka' in Chinese, a user with little technical knowledge can easily steal passwords to get online via Wi-Fi networks owned by other people. The kits are also cheap. A merchant in a Beijing bazaar sold one for 165 yuan ($24), a price that included setup help from a man at the other end of the sprawling, multistory building."
I have a question. (Score:3, Interesting)
Why is china or the people of, so interested in causing problems on the internet?
IS this just a way of rebelling that is safe for them from their government (the party they would really like to rebel against.)
Re:Are these available in the states? (Score:5, Interesting)
On a side subject, it would be nice for a wireless AP to have the ability to use multiple (like up to 255+) WPA2-PSK keys, one individual key per machine. Yes, this encroaches on WPA-Enterprise, but this would provide the ability to lock out a compromised machine off the network just by zapping its key, as opposed to having to rekey every single box on the wireless segment.
Re:Are these available in the states? (Score:3, Interesting)
There are certain AP's and firmware that have a built-in RADIUS server for WPA/WPA2 Enterprise.
Re:Are these available in the states? (Score:3, Interesting)
Except he is wrong. So I'm glad you don't have mod point to help this yahoo make people think a system is hidden just by hiding the SSID.
SSID is trivial to get.
People like him are a significant factor in the slow adoption or proper security procedures. So thank him for that.
Re:Are these available in the states? (Score:2, Interesting)
iwlist will show the network, what part of that are you not grasping in your little pea sized brain?
I am not backpedlling. The only thing I made a mistake with is your initial reply, I should have told you that you misunderstood me then.
Hiding the SSID is the action of a silly windows user it accomplishes nothing.
There are only like 3 classes of driver supported. (Score:1, Interesting)
All my use of aircrack-ng is that only the non-USB hardware is supported, meaning you need either something on a PCI bridge be it either the blackplane or a Cardbus slot. USB support was attempted but not there because of technical issues, the last I checkted if I remember correctly.
The best Linux distribution is BackTrack 3, and the recent DVD versions of it are just bloated pieces of shit that fail easier with the more surface-scratches the disc collects. I can't wait for a Linux distribution that has multiple images of itself on the same disc just so when a scratch is ditected then it will skip/redirect with a non-volatile seek command so it can use another viable amount of image; I was CDROM RAID is what I'm asking for. I don't need all the bloated titty-shitfuck code that makes it bloat to a x?x?x-Niggabyte DVDROM.