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I love the idea of WiFi and the mobility one derives from using it. A week back while having a cup of coffee down the university area in Bangalore I gushed into checking e-mail on my notebook, an old habit. For the past few months I’ve been using one of the free access points to check my email regularly before leaving for job. Alas! that day, I noticed that the number of discovered Access Points is greater than 300, which used to be around 2-3 APs on a normal day.
Here’s the screen shot I took
This was unusual ! 
I am a normal business guy, the fear of loss of privacy of data made me immediately shutdown the system as I suspected there’s some mischief going on with the network.
Later on after reporting this to one of my friends I found that there are tools available on internet that might assist a person to create any given number of FAKE Wireless Access Points.
Some forums even rumour that,
It can cause almost all PDA’s / iPhone to get DOSed ( Denial Of Service attacks),
A tool named Black Alchemy’s Fake AP can create thousands of counterfeit 802.11b Wireless access points. These APs can confuse any tool like Network Stumbler.
The Linux version of the tool is available online for free ( GPL licence).
One may download Fake AP tool here MD5 b5077cf7a164dc293ffbab6da79284ab
The Tool Website
August 13th, 2008 at 3:05 am
hmmmm. has anyone tried it using the tool mentioned above ?
August 13th, 2008 at 5:33 am
it works great with Red Hat . I’ve tried it sometime back..
August 13th, 2008 at 6:53 am
what is buffer overflow to do with this ?
August 16th, 2008 at 3:48 am
may be bangalore Wifi is also full of traffic just like the damn city
hahahaha
LOL, bangalore bangalore JAMS Everywhere.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
hiii … if you know a bit of coding and with Atheros Wireless Card + Linux will do this. Not only this u can relay make mad Wifi users.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
which language will a Newbie like me needs to learn, I am frm iitkgp..1st yr. Cse
August 19th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Damn man, U’re in KGP CSE?? U know Arun Mallya?? Just asking…U must be really smart!! OK that was a personal opinion
As for languages, it depends on what you’re planning to specialise in…web technology, systems programming etc etc
August 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Is he in first year.. Which Coll. You from ??
August 20th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Ya he’s in da 1st yr…is a good friend….me din’t clear JEE
Studying in Goa!!
August 25th, 2008 at 4:01 am
well bangalore’s on fire, IISc Bangalore site hacked !
August 25th, 2008 at 4:08 am
crap! i just verified from a friend studying there
cool off 