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Boost your wifi signal, hack your AppleTV and mod your Xbox 360
This video shows you a variety of hacks and mods for your Xbox 360, AppleTV and how to boost your wifi. You’re shown how to make an antenna booster for your router, stream content to your Apple TV and upgrade the hard drive.
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Hack wifi using Wireshark
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Hack WiFi Using a WPS Pixie Dust Attack
Long time reader, first time ‘How To’ poster. This tutorial has been highly requested. Here are the steps to perform a Pixie Dust attack to crack a WiFi password that has WPS enabled. Please note, this attack is very specific in nature. I’ve had a lot of success running this..
Hack WiFi Passwords for Free Wireless Internet on Your PS3
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Hack a WiFi USB Adapter for Better Reception
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Hack your Xbox Kinect using Mac OSX and Composer
Quartz Composer is a Mac program that helps you manipulated motion capture video, and you can hack your Xbox Kinect to send motion captured data to your Mac OSX. This tutorial shows you precisely how you can use the Kinect tools to pull this off!
Hack your Xbox Kinect with a USB analyzer
This tutorial shows you how to get started hacking your Xbox Kinect. You will need a high quality USB analyzer between the Kinect and the Xbox for this to work, and then you can start streaming data from your Kinect onto your computer.
Hack a WiFi only iPad to use 3G
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Hack Your Xbox Gamerscore
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Hack WPA WiFi Passwords by Cracking the WPS PIN
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Use your iPhone to tether WiFi for your XBOX 360 or PS3
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Hack a local wifi internet connection with your PSP
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Hack a WEP wifi network on a Mac
This video will teach you how to hack a WEP wifi network on a Mac. You’ll need to follow the link, grab the prog and follow the steps. It’s not too hard, so give it a try. Remember, stealing is illegal!
Connect to XBox Live through WiFi on a laptop
In this tutorial, we learn how to connect to XBox live through WiFi on a laptop. First, you will need to connect the ethernet cable from your laptop onto your game console. After this, go into your start menu on your computer, then go to network connections through the control..
Hack into your Xbox 360 and change your user profile
You can change your gamerscore, get unrestricted access and do much more with this hack! All you will need is an Xbox hard drive and a data transfer cable. Then just follow along with the video to hack your own Xbox 360!
Hack together a WiFi radio for under $50
In this clip, you’ll learn how to create a WiFi radio with an Asus WL-520GU and a WL-520GU-ASUS wireless router. It’s an easy process and this video presents a complete guide. For more information, including a full demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch t..
Hack a wireless or wifi network with DeAuth
A DeAuth hack attack against a wireless network, as shown in this how-to video, will disconnect any and all users on a given WiFi network. The attacker does not need to know the WEP or WPA key or be connected to the network. For step-by-step instructions on running a DeAuth ha..
Hack a WEP-protected WiFi network with BackTrack 3
In this clip, you’ll learn how to use the Backtrack 3 Linux distro and Aircrack-ng WiFi security app to crack the password to a WEP-protected wireless network. The process is simple. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, and to get started testing the secu..
Hack Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360 — A Detailed Hacking Guide for USB Devices
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Hack a satellite dish into a WiFi signal booster
There are many ways to recycle a satellite dish and this is one of them. In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to hack an old satellite dish into a biquad WiFi antenna. For detailed, step-by-step instructions on building your own audio signal booster, take a look!
Connect to Xbox Live through a laptop or PCs wifi
This video will show you how to connect to XBox Live through a laptop or PC’s Wi-Fi. Connect your XBox Ethernet cable and the other end of the cable you connect it to the Ethernet port of your laptop. On Vista and XP, open control panel and go to Network Connections. Right cli..
Hack Computers Over Wi-Fi with the WiFi Duck Payload Deliverer
The USB Rubber Ducky is a well-known hacking device in the cybersecurity industry, but it needs to be preprogrammed before it can be used. That means it’s not easy to issue commands to a target computer since you can’t interact with it from afar after plugging it in. And if yo..
How to Hack and mod Fallout:
New Vegas on the Xbox 360
Want to modify your game in Fallout: New Vegas? You will need to be able to transfer a saved game from your Xbox 360 onto your desktop computer, and then go into the hex editor to mod or hack what you want to change.
Hack a 64 bit WiFi wireless network using Ubuntu v. 9. 04
Oh how we love open source software. If it wasn’t for Open Office, we never would have been able to write that seven-page English paper while on our friend’s Microsoft Office-lacking laptop during an impromptu road trip to Mexico. And Ubuntu, an open source secure operating sy..
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How to Get Even with Your Annoying Neighbor by Bumping Them Off Their WiFi Network —Undetected
Welcome back, my hacker apprentices! My recent posts here in Null Byte have been very technical in nature, so I thought that I’d have a little fun with this one. Have you ever had an annoying neighbor whose dog barks all night, who has loud parties that keep you awake, or who..
8 Netflix Hacks You Should Know for Improved & Unrestricted Streaming on Any Device
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Use AGBX360 to stealth patch your XBox 360 games
You can hack you XBox 360 as perfectly as you please, but if you don’t burn the games that you want to play on it properly than it will all be for naught. This video will teach you an important part of the process, using AGBX360 and S360X to stealth patch your game files..
Make a Wi-Fi extender from Asian parabolic cookware
Want to boost your WiFi reception? Have an extra wok or parabolic collander? This video tutorial demonstrates a simple hack that will allow you to build an effective radio antenna that will significantly increase the gain of your WiFi signal. To replicate this hack at home, yo..
How to Mod GTA:
The Ballad Of Gay Tony for a flashed or hotswap Xbox 360
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony might not be new anymore, but it still rocks and there aren’t a lot of videos on how to mod it properly. This is one such video. It will teach you everything you need to know to modify the game for a flashed or hotswap-capable Xbox 360…
Hack WPA wireless networks for beginners on Windows and Linux
WPA-secured wireless networks, or WiFI Protected Access, is a form of internet security that secures your wireless LAN from being accessed by unauthorized users. Safer than WEP, or wireless equivalent privacy, WPA still has weaknesses that are prone to cracking – IF, that is,..
Enable free WiFi tethering on your new HTC EVO 4G
In this tutorial, learn how to avoid Sprint’s expensive 30. 00 a month Hot Spot plan and hack your EVO for free tethering. This video will take you step by step through the process of setting up and using tether on your HTC EVO 4G in just a few simple steps.
Use the EyeClops Mini Projector to Play Xbox 360 Games or Watch iPhone Videos
It isn’t a new gadget, but the EyeClops Mini Projector still makes a great stocking stuffer for Christmas Day. It’s great for kids to play with, but for techies— it’s sure to be something fun to hack and mod this holiday season. The EyeClops Mini Projector looks more like Wal..
Earn the ‘One Small Hack for a Man’ achievement in Black Ops Rezurrection
The ‘One Small Hack for Man’ achievement in Call of Duty: Black Ops is available if you own the Rezurrection DLC and requires you to hack anything within the game with the hacking device. Take a look at this guide from the Achievement Hunters to learn just how to unlock the ac..
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On Public WiFi? Your News May Be Hacked
Meet Newstweek, a hidden device engineered to hack news items being read at public WiFi hotspots (cafes, libraries, airports, etc. ). Both nefarious and tech-saavy, the ingenious mechanism wasn’t fathered by a group of web hackers, but rather a pair of Berlin artists, Julian Ol..
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Boost Your WiFi Signal With a Tin Can
Budget Hack’s cheap Wifi range extender works off of the age old concept of adding tin foil to your TV’s rabbit ears. The materials are cheap, and the project is relatively easy (if you’re willing to pick up some soldering skills). You Will Need: Two milo tins or similar F-..
Hack into WEP encrypted wireless networks
Check out this video tutorial on how to hack into WEP encrypted wireless networks. The aim of this video is to show people how easy it is to crack a wireless network with WEP encryption. Seriously, if you know how to do it, even a little kid could if you showed them how. Now t..
Get your PSP hooked up to the Internet without needing wifi
If you can’t get access to a wifi hotspot or an Internet connection with your PSP, you can use this method to get online. You will need access to a computer that is online, and a USB cord that can connect the computer to your PSP. Then, open up the command prompt on your compu..
Make a rapid fire controller mod for an XBox 360
This great video series how to do a hack for your wireless XBox 360 controller. This mod will enable you to have a rapid fire for shooter games so you don’t have to continually depress the button for every shot. Part 1 of 2 – How to Make a rapid fire controller mod for an XBox..
Hack a WEP network with Aircrack for BackTrack Linux
In this clip, you’ll learn how to use the BackTrack Linux distro and the Aircrack-ng WiFi security app to hack a WEP network. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, and to get started testing the security of your own WiFi networks, wa..
Install Aircrack on your iPhone
Learn how to install Aircrack on your iPhone to hack into almost any WiFi network. First download Aircrack from iHackMyi, then follow these steps: -Set every files’ permission to: 777 -Open Terminal in WinSCP from /var/ -Enter the following command: sysctl -w..
Xbox LIVE Achievement:
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Sometimes, paying for the whole Xbox LIVE service might seem like a waste of money. You’re constantly experiencing lag, you’ve got people modding and cheating, kids are being loud and obnoxious over the mic, and your kill-to-death ratio is getting dumped on. Basically, the who..
Extract the key from a LiteOn DG-16D2S XBox 360 drive
If you want to flash the disc drive on your XBox 360, you are going to need to know the key to that drive or another one so that you can reassign a key to the drive after you flash it. This video will show you how to do that, as well as how to make your own DIY XBox connectivi..
Freeze someone’s Xbox 360
This is a hack tutorial, learn how to freeze someone else’s Xbox 360. First, host a party and invite your “victim”. Send them a voice message about 15 seconds long an wait till you see the victim listening to the message. Kick the victim from the party and reinvite them back t..
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Upgrade XBox 360 LiteOn drive to LT IXtreme firmware
The Xbox 360’s official firmware is constantly being updated, and the unofficial kind is no different. This video will show you how to update your flashed XBox 360 LiteOn disc drive’s LT firmware to the newest version, allowing you to continue to use all of the cool hack and m..
Connect to Xbox Live using your laptop
If you don’t have an active WiFi connection, or have one that you are not able to use on your Xbox, check out this tutorial. In this video, learn how to hook your Xbox Live account up to your laptop and share Internet. This works for almost all Windows based laptops or PCs and..
Tether your Motorola Droid 3G smartphone
In this clip, learn how to use PDA Net to tether your rooted Droid 3G smartphone to a WiFi network. By tethering your device, you will be able to use it as a portable, wireless modem for anything from other phones to computers to hand held gaming systems. Anything that is WiFi..
Transfer music from your iPhone or iPod Touch to your PS3
If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch then you probably think that the only places you can listen to your MP3 files are on your laptop, your i-gadget of choice, and your car. But in reality anything that you can groove to on your iPhone or iPod Touch can be listened to – and..
Copy & Convert your Skyrim Game Save from the Xbox 360 to your PC
Gamers like myself who have switched back and forth between Skyrim on PC and Xbox lack the ability to share game saves. This really sucks. I love playing Skyrim on a console. It’s a very comfortable, easy and relaxed gaming experience. You don’t have to worry about your frame..
Hack Wireless Internet
Tinkernut demonstrates how to crack a wifi connection, as well as how to better secure your own personal connection. Also included in the video gallery is Tinkernut’s previous tutorial on the same subject. LifeHacker posted a great detailed text guide to accompany the second..
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Air Guitar + Kinect Hack = Pure Awesomeness
Thanks to Microsoft’s XBOX 360 motion-detecting system, Kinect, the world is becoming a play place for sci-fi style virtual reality. One of the latest hacks demonstrates the next best thing to regular old air guitar… virtual reality air guitar: Artist Chris O’Shea explains h..
Take apart or disassemble the Xbox 360 slim
For some people out there, whenever they get their hands on something new, the immediately need to know how it works. This can be especially true for electronics. That’s no exception for the new Xbox 360 slim. This baby has been redesigned to feature wifi, touch controls, and..
Print Yourself in 3D
Since the early genesis of the brilliant Microsoft Kinect hack, inventive applications have been popping up nonstop. One of the most fascinating projects to surface recently falls within the realm of 3D printing. “Fabricate Yourself”—a hack presented at the Tangible, Embedded..
Stay Safe Using Public WiFi
For travelers on-the-go, or penny pinchers who like to surf the web for free in public places, there are necessary precautions one must take when accessing sensitive information over a public WiFi connection. For advice on doing this safely, check out Glenn Fleishmann’sguide t..
The Latest and Greatest Kinect Hacks
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Unlock all game modes in Bejeweled 2 (12/17/08)
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Change preference values in Bejeweled 2 (12/02/08)
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Get Unlimited Money in Skyrim by Hacking Your Game Saves
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Can you be hacked through Xbox Live? – BoardGamesTips
Can you be hacked through Xbox Live? How do you pull someone’s IP on Xbox? How can I check if someone is using my WiFi? How do I secure my router? What is the most secure wireless router? How do I make my WIFI security stronger? What do I do when my WiFi has a weak security? How do I control devices connected to my WiFi?
Can you be hacked through Xbox Live?
Yes, and it is not very hard. An Xbox has a huge piece of software on it, and is relatively easy to hack. However, if someone does that, they don’t do it to you personally. They go around hacking random Xboxes to create a botnet, you are practically just a machine to them and they don’t care about your private data.
How do you pull someone’s IP on Xbox?
Use WireShark for Getting Xbox Users IP Address You can also use Wireshark to get the IP address of Xbox users, provided you are in the same party or playing a game together. In as much as you have a peer-to-peer connection with a gamer, you can use Wireshark to obtain his IP address.
How can I check if someone is using my WiFi?
Your wireless router should have indicator lights that show internet connectivity, hardwired network connections, and also any wireless activity. One way you can see if anyone’s using your network is to shut down all wireless devices and go see if that wireless light is still blinking.
How do I secure my router?
Here are a few things to consider before setting up the router.
Update your router with new firmware and keep it up to date.
Change your login credentials and router password.
Always use WPA2 to secure your wireless network.
Disable WPS.
Schedule your wireless network’s online schedule.
What is the most secure wireless router?
Best secure Wi-Fi routers
Model
Wi-Fi security protocol
Best overall
Google Nest Wifi
WPA2, WPA3
Best for a budget
TP-Link Archer A9
WPA3
Best for Wi-Fi 6
ASUS RT-AX88U
WEP, WPA, WPA2
Best for advanced security
Synology RT2600ac
How do I make my WIFI security stronger?
Here are a few helpful security tips.
Turn On Automatic Updates. Router manufacturers typically roll out software updates throughout the year to address security threats.
Turn Off Features You Don’t Use.
Use Strong Passwords.
Change the Default SSID.
Use WPA3.
Passing the Password Test.
What do I do when my WiFi has a weak security?
Set a strong password to join the network. Choose WPA2 (AES)… these steps to resolve your error message.
Make sure your devices have the latest software updates.
Log into your router by typing your router’s IP address into your browser’s URL/Search bar.
Install the latest firmware updates for your router.
How do I control devices connected to my WiFi?
View specific devices connected to your home network
Go to Smart Home Manager.
Choose Network and then select Connected Devices. Only devices connected to your network will show.
Choose the device you want to view. Once selected, you can change the device name for your network.
Hacking your neighbour’s Wi-Fi – the mango zone
Hey kid, wanna hack some Wi-Fi?
This article is your 100% lactose-free guide to hacking home Wi-Fi. By the end it’s okay to feel afraid, insecure, or even the urge to bulk-purchase home networking equipment. It’s okay. We’ve all been there.
Isn’t is strange how when you move into a place and get an internet connection, you typically get given a home router as part of the package? Isn’t it strange how this router is held together using nothing but matchsticks, broken promises, and man’s hubris?
Did you know that anyone nearby can kick you off a Wi-Fi network?
Did you know your phone constantly broadcasts the names and locations (by proxy) of every Wi-Fi network you’ve ever connected to?
Yeah it’s all pretty broken hey?
Below are the steps for breaking it more.
Step 0: Don’t actually do this
I’m using “your neighbour” as an easy-to-remember example here.
You might be having what seems like a genius idea, and that’s “wowee I should hack my neighbour’s wifi because uhhhhhh”. This idea is a bad one, in the same way that trying to break into your neighbour’s house is a bad idea.
If you want to actually hack some Wi-Fi, try disconnecting and doing this to your own Wi-Fi.
Step 1: Find the right Wi-Fi
So in our 99. 99999% theoretical scenario, you and your laptop are within range of your neighbour’s Wi-Fi router. You don’t know the password, but you want to connect. Time to do some crimes.
The first thing you’d do is take out your laptop and run airodump-ng, a tool for precisely the job of hacking Wi-Fi.
Here’s what it looks like.
You see the names of nearby Wi-Fi networks and also their “BSSID”, which is a bit like an ID for Wi-Fi networks. It’s actually exactly like that.
Step 2: Get the password hash
Once you know the BSSID of your neighbour’s Wi-Fi, the goal is to get the Wi-Fi password. The router won’t tell you the Wi-Fi password, but it will give up the password hash1.
A password hash is like a scrambled version of the password. You can’t unscramble it. Kinda like how you can’t unscramble scrambled eggs back into the white and the yolk.
We’re going to find the hash by watching……the secret handshake.
The secret handshake
You heard me.
“is that real”
You might be wondering why there’s a secret handshake happening every time you connect to Wi-Fi, and that’s fair enough, I’m glad you asked.
Let’s say you’re a legitimate businessperson just connecting to your home Wi-Fi. No funny business. You know the password. But you need to prove to the Wi-Fi that you know the password. And the Wi-Fi needs to prove to you that it knows the password. The trouble is, everyone else can hear you.
Wi-Fi is broadcast as radio waves out of your device and router all the time. Anyone within range can hear what you’re saying.
It’s kinda like if you came up to me at a party and you said “I know your Facebook password”. It gets real tense. I nervously glance up at you and say “Really? ”. I want to know if you really do know my Facebook password, but I also don’t want you to just say “Your Facebook password is cooldude69” because everyone else at the party is listening.
So, the secret handshake lets you and the Wi-Fi router both prove you know the password without saying it.
Eavesdropping
The trick is that by spying on the handshake, an eavesdropper (that’s us) could see:
A randomly chosen bit of text (e. g. 3b5ef)
The same text, encrypted with the Wi-Fi password as the key (b8%&G)
You know the text, you know what it encrypts to, and you know how to do the encryption. The only thing you don’t know is what the key is. This means that you can guess something as the key, and check if your guess was right.
We see “3b53f” encrypts to “b8%&G”
Try encrypting “3b53f” with key “password1” -> “AAERJ” // Wrong!
Try encrypting “3b53f” with key “cooldad1964” -> “b8%&G” // Found it!
What if you just encrypt the text 3b5ef with cooldad1964 as the key, and it happens to encrypt to b8%&G?
Then you know that the password was cooldad1964. And if 3b5ef encrypts to something else, then you know your guess was wrong.
Step 3: Crack the password
So using the trick above, we’re going to just guess the password. The trick is that we’re going to be able to guess passwords way faster than if we were just typing them into the “Enter the password for this Wi-Fi network” box.
So, get out your pen and paper and blow the dust off that compass and straightedge because it’s time to do some encryption.
Just kidding, we’re not going to use pen and paper you big bozo. We’re going to use a graphics card.
Graphics cards are the part inside a computer that lets the computer be able to play 3D games such as PLAYERUNKNOWN’S ALLCAPS Murder Paradise and Viva Piñata: Party Animals. They also happen to be really fast at encrypting stuff.
So we’re going to get a big list of millions of passwords, and try them all to try and guess the Wi-Fi password.
Alright so you know how websites get hacked?
Sometimes, the hackers release the passwords of everyone on the website at the time it got hacked. You may have heard of these as “data breaches”.
Sites that got hacked recently and had passwords publicly exposed include LinkedIn, Adobe, and Myspace.
You, a person with an internet connection, can find these lists via Google. No dark web, no getting behind 7 proxies and insisting that your parents only call you by your “code name”, no nothing.
There are two kinds of home Wi-Fi networks: The kind that are called NETGEAR-7BDFC, which probably have randomly generated passwords, and the kind that are called Chris & Liz 2013, with passwords that are in these password lists.
I’m going to guess that your neighbour’s password is probably in one of the heaps big lists of passwords. But to find out which one it is, we’re going to have to encrypt 3b5ef (in this example) with every single password in the list as the encryption key2, and see if any of them match what we saw the Wi-Fi password encrypt to (b8%&G).
(If your neighbour has one of those randomly generated passwords, then you’re out of luck. JUST kidding click here for a fun time. )
Now that you’ve “acquired” these password lists, you gotta figure out which password is the Wi-Fi password.
Rapid-fire password guessing
Hashcat is software that can take a password list and a hash3 (“b8%&G”) and try to “unhash” it by comparing it to all the passwords in the list. To give you an estimate of how long this takes, my computer can check 10 million passwords in about 10 minutes. Specialised computers overflowing with graphics cards can do this in seconds.
You just plug the file containing the handshake that you got in Step 2 into hashcat, as well as your password lists.
And that’s it. Hashcat will likely just spit out the password, and you can just type it in the Wi-Fi “Enter the password” box. The main part is furiously guessing millions of passwords until we find the right one.
Why does this work?
Because people pick easy-to-guess passwords. English word with the first letter maybe capitalised then one or two numbers? That pattern covers a lot of people’s passwords and a computer can just quickly check all of them.
If you’re an average internet user, your password for everything is the same, and it’s your pet’s name followed by your house number. Even worse, it’s probably a password hackers already have in their password lists. What I’m saying is that on average, most Wi-Fi passwords people choose don’t stand a chance against these password lists.
You can check whether your password has been stolen by hackers (and published) by browsing to
So you can probably hack home Wi-Fi. What’s the point of doing it?
Finding your neighbour’s ISP password
Routers often store the password used to connect to the ISP in their admin pages.
This password would let you prove that you are your neighbour when talking to their ISP. You can cancel their internet all together. You can see their billing information. You are them.
Let me walk you through the complex process of hacking a home router.
First you open up the popular hacking software, Google Chrome, and go to 192. 168. 0. 1, which is usually the IP address of the router.
When you get there, you’ll see something like this.
Easiest admin/admin of your LIFE right there.
Once you’re in the router, the password is in the config page.
Oh no! The password is just dots! Your hacking career is over before it started!
Fear not, young keyboard warlock, for there is a deus ex machina that saves you in this cutscene.
You can Right Click > Inspect Element (hacker voice: i’m in) on the password field, and you’ll see this:
Edit that HTML to remove the type=”password” aaaaaaand
That’s right, the dots were only put there by your browser. The password was under them all along. You were trapped in a prison of your own mind.
Steal your neighbour’s data
So this one isn’t as cool as it used to be, but using ancient forbidden techniques like ARP poisoning (not nearly as cool as it sounds), you can spy on what your neighbour is sending to the internet.
This won’t work for websites with that lovingly hand-forged green HTTPS lock, since your neighbour’s data will be encrypted.
But, there are still plenty of sites that will ask for your password or credit card information over plain ol’ HTTP.
Even for some HTTPS sites (which do not use Certificate Pinning or HSTS or other Dark Rituals), you can force your victim to use plain unencrypted HTTP with SSLStrip.
It’s possible that reading the words on this hypertext page has made you question the bulletproof security of your own home network situation.
Here are some things you can do to stop worrying about your home Wi-Fi security.
1. Absolutely nothing
Don’t even worry about it. The pool of people who can attack your home Wi-Fi is limited to the people in physical range of it.
A website like PayPal is attackable by:
anyone with a computer
Your home Wi-Fi is attackable by:
anyone nearby your house
What I’m saying here is that the chance of someone with skills and motivation to hack your Wi-Fi actually doing it is… small. Probably your neighbours are just that nice family and that one guy who always leaves his beer bottles in your recycling bin.
Anyway that guy’s not gonna hack your Wi-Fi. This is why it’s not a total catastrophe that most people’s Wi-Fi security isn’t very good.
You might leave a spare key under the mat, or not bother to lock your windows even though someone could easily climb through them, because you’re not worried about someone physically breaking in. In the same way, your house probably doesn’t need extra-strong Wi-Fi security.
So don’t worry about it! Go to the beach! Work all day to make a rich dude slightly richer! He might thank you, but probably not! Eat a cupcake! Your Wi-Fi security probably isn’t worth worrying about.
2. Enable Paranoia Mode
“Wait what if there IS someone trying to hack my home Wi-Fi, like my local government or perhaps a particularly intelligent bird? ”
I mean the government has far easier ways to spy on you, but if you really want to tighten up your Wi-Fi security, you can:
Use WPA2-PSK, and change the Wi-Fi password to something unguessable but easy to share (for your guests, of course).
Good examples include fresh*life*fresh*mangoes and gday$one$internet$please. Or randomly generate one like [email protected]&*3Wj if you hate your guests and love typing.
Install custom router firmware like DD-WRT.
This has far fewer security holes than whatever 1997 PHP spaghetti your router came with.
Thanks for taking the time to read this blog post.
Big ol’ thanks to these heroes for their large brains which showed me how to do words more good.
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