[Tfug] Fraudulent airport WiFi

Adrian choprboy at dakotacom.net
Thu Jun 29 11:56:10 MST 2006


Had to chuckle a bit yesterday as I was on travel and waiting in the airport 
for the (late) plane. I fired up my laptop at this particular airport, which 
I have been thru several times, to use a free WiFi access point I knew of to 
grab my email and SSH back into some servers to get some work done while I 
waited... Can you spot the fraudulent WiFi access point? I was quite amused 
looking around trying to figure out who it was... The fraudulent access 
disappeared a little while later as the planes started to board.

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wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 02:0E:35:00:29:FB
                    ESSID:"Free Public WiFi"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-59 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:0B:FD:0A:C9:9B
                    ESSID:"tmobile"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-76 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 03 - Address: 2E:BD:F0:9F:A3:0B
                    ESSID:"Verizon Wi-Fi"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-67 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 04 - Address: 00:0D:BD:1F:B9:D0
                    ESSID:"tmobile"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-59 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 05 - Address: FA:CC:1D:44:C5:1E
                    ESSID:"Comcast Broadband"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
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Adrian




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