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nwh
on July 19, 2014
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Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveill...
OSX and I assume iOS does do detection of this. If you connect to an AP that was WPA2 encrypted in the past, and has the same name but no encryption now, it gives you a big scary warning and bails out.
im3w1l
on July 20, 2014
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I guess this is to combat password stealing attempts in particular, and not AP spoofing in general, since you could easily make the new AP WPA2?
nwh
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If have to look it up, but I don't think the AP would get the plaintext password during the WPA2 key exchange.
im3w1l
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I guess this is to combat password stealing attempts in particular, and not AP spoofing in general?
terminalcommand
on July 19, 2014
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One could always set-up a Ja-sager with WPA2.
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