Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by d23 4111 days ago
Yeah, I wish I could edit my post, but I believe I was wrong about the MAC address needing to be the same. The major point is that the network needs to be unsecured and/or you already know the password. At that point, creating your own faux base station doesn't make a lot of sense when you can just sniff the packets on the wire or do arp poisoning to route traffic through you (if you want to modify traffic in real time, which is what I'm assuming he was referring to when talking about the SSL stuff).

Either way, Wi-Fi security certainly != "a misnomer."