Comments on: Viewing Unencrypted Wifi Traffic in 5 Minutes or Less

By: The Digital Life Show » Sept 3 – the ipad and secure public hotspot browsing

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:00:02 +0000

[...] How easy is it to view unencrypted wifi traffic ? [...]

By: Gadianton

Gadianton — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:44:47 +0000

@rando:

One reason is because backtrack has universal drivers that allow sniffing without any additional configuration.

In windows, and many linux distros, the drivers aren't preconfigured to sniff wireless until they've been connected to an AP. Of course, you can configure it to work as such (assuming you can find proper drivers) or you can just use an 'out of the box' solution like backtrack.

By: Rando

Rando — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:07:57 +0000

Why go through the whole backtrack exercise when I can just install Wireshark independently?

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:26:42 +0000

doesn't work with dell xps .. the interface appears as 'wlan0' in iwconfig but not under wireshark's interface list .. only the 'loopback' and 'any' interface appears

By: I’m A Super.com » GMail’s dirty little not-so-secret - It’s not always Encrypted

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:35:59 +0000

[...] right, if you’re on an unecrypted wireless connection (see how easy it is to sniff wireless here), or on a network that is easily sniffed (such as your work), your gmail account is pretty much [...]