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Show HN: I asked AI to respond to the AirSnitch vulnerability the day it dropped
1 points by nevynweb 116 days ago
Hello world!

Long time lurker first time poster, please be kind :)

AirSnitch published at NDSS 2026 this week. Every tested router is vulnerable to Wi-Fi client isolation bypass. Vendors will patch it eventually. The IEEE will update the standard eventually.

I wanted to know: how quickly can AI turn a newly published academic paper into something a paranoid homeowner could actually deploy while they wait for firmware updates?

One afternoon. No prior knowledge of the exploit. No testing. Full honesty about both of those things in the README.

The result is a Raspberry Pi cloud-init config that deploys Kismet tuned to AirSnitch attack indicators, with webhook and email alerting.

Is it perfect? No. Is it a credible starting point that didn't exist Yesterday morning? Yes. That's the point.

https://bitbucket.org/nevynweb/airsnitchalerter

I’m sharing in good faith that this is either genuinely useful to someone, perhaps even a catalyst for an actual detector or patch, or just a novelty demonstration of the current capability of Claude AI

Thanks for looking :)

1 comments

maybe write these personally in the future vs pasting chatbot output? even if you didn't write the code, it would be nice if you wrote the description and post on your own.
Thank you. Intruiging - I did write the "hello world/log time lurker" and the "sharing in good faith" parts myself but they could have come across very robotic, and made it look like the chatbot did all of the work!

A fair point, well made though. I posted hastily to catch the news cycle and admit I leaned too heavily on AI, in hindsight. Hopefully you can find my own voice and humour in the README.md but I will take care to 'humanise' any future posts here