And no, I'm not talking about pirating on the internet, I'm talking about getting your internet connection to the outside world without paying or having a subscription or license. Something like a mesh network with your neighbors with the exit node being one person's high-speed fiber line, or even an exit node through a free public wifi network that you've hidden a little repeater device within range of... something like that could be interesting. I've been thinking lately of a world where decentralized networks become more common, and where people can freely use the internet without paying an ISP. What are your thoughts?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

When I was in college, I rented a house just outside my budget and found I couldn't afford things like cable internet.

I had a wifi->ethernet bridge that was originally to connect my OG Xbox to a wifi network. I also had neighbors with Wifi using WEP encryption. An idea was born.

Was able to use aircrack-ng on my laptop to crack their WEP key in about 15 minutes. Plugged that key into my wifi->ethernet bridge, and then hooked that into my router. Bam, my whole house was online.

That worked for probably a year and a half.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Does aircrack ng still work?

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Aircrack-ng still works as a packet sniffer and a wifi detector but breaking WPA is way more difficult than breaking WEP. No one basically uses WEP anymore.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Darn. Thank you!

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago

WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 21 hours ago

AFAIK, yes. Though I haven't tried it with WPA3.

While WEP is dead, you can still use it to capture the WPA/2 handshake and run it through something like John the Ripper to try to recover the passphrase.

Admittedly, I haven't messed with it in years.

Either way, you still need a wireless adapter that's capable of promiscuous mode as well as a driver for it that supports packet injection (not sure how rare that is nowadays).