Airscanner Mobile Sniffer

[Cphil1]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to figure out how to use this nifty little program.

I read up on some other website that this program can let you connect to other wifi networks, even encrypted ones!

Here's the website; http://www.airscanner.com/downloads/sniffer/sniffer.html

If anyone knows hoe to make it work on my HTC Wizard WM6.1, please let me know.

Phil

[dole_95]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to figure out how to use this nifty little program.

I read up on some other website that this program can let you connect to other wifi networks, even encrypted ones!

Here's the website; http://www.airscanner.com/downloads/sniffer/sniffer.html

If anyone knows hoe to make it work on my HTC Wizard WM6.1, please let me know.

Phil

Well, you can do that with the built-in wifiapp.

[riri22]

This is not exactly how things work with this soft. Not directly.
I mean no programm will allow you to get connected right away onto encripted networks.

What mobile sniffer actually does, it allows you to sniff data packets out from encripted networks.
With a significant amount of such data packets, if you are a hacker and have sofwares to read the contents of such packets, you can eventually 'break' the wep key that encripted such network.

I will just remind you that using other people's private wifi network by breaking their encription key is illegal in most countries...
:rolleyes:

[Cphil1]

Hey rir22,

So why is it so commercialized out there? What makes the airscanner so much more appealing than other wifi sniffers?

The way I see it, the whole concept behind this airscanner is that you can sniff out network / wifi packets and eventually connect to the internet via that way...

Or am I completely wrong here???

Phil:confused:

[h4waii]

That's partially correct. With enough captured packets, WEP is easily broken due to Initialisation Vectors (IV) being re-used.

There are only a handful of devices that run WinMo that are supported by Airscanner, you can also look at Handy Sniffer which claims to be able to put an adapter into promiscuous mode. However, what you would essentially want to do is put your card into RFMON, which would allow you to receive all traffic on a given frequency.

You'd be better off getting a Zaurus for such adventures.

[G54582]

So... I have been curious about porting RFMON onto android as well... is there a group working on this I can collaborate with? It will take quite a bit of effort to get the chip to support that mode... I think