Replying to Detecting Wirless Networks

I am planning to have setup a Bluetooth wireless network and build a application on that, but before that i want to know the drow backs of the bluetooth wireless network . So i need help from the guys who have alreday developed such network and developed some application on that.

Some of the drow backs that i have collected are.

-- security is the main concern, any one can hack such network by just knowing the MAC number of the Bluetooth device,

-- limited range, although there 100 mt range bluetooth dongle in the market, the quality of the data sent is the consern as there will be more data loss in this network.

--streeming over Bluetooth is a big issue. (Need help if any one has done this)

-- Most of the bluetooth dongle avilable in indian market has got same MAC number, this is big consern in building network.

these are the some issues with Bluetooth network.

If you have already experiance in such network you can help me to provide some of the solution to these issues and you can add some more issues to this list, so that will be aware of all this before i put my hand in this.

@ethergeek : take care, read the forum rules once more. I'm afraid you are at the outer edge of legal things with the things you write. If a mod happens to come around here, he would probably delete this post, at least.

If you have a linux or bsd box...just use Kismet for scanning for networks. It's alot easier and has built-in collection of initialization vector frames alongside scanning...so you can just run one application to do most of the hard work for you.

I'd recommend using two machines; one to capture IV frames while another machine conducts a deauth attack to keep the IV frames flowing. This is a bit more obnoxious to the legitimate users of the access point, but it's the only way to break into a non-congested network in a reasonable amount of time. Aireplay can handle the deauth attack for you.

Once you have a ton of IV frames, use aircrack to conduct various attacks.

If you're on a recent Mac, get KisMAC. It features most of Kismet's features as well as the ability to conduct attacks from within kisMAC.

But still, what'd you want to do with them? >_<. I think hacking unprotected networks is kinda pathetic.

Not if you're surrounded by Wi-Fi networks, all waiting for you to jump in undetected (mostly).

Think of it as a sort of free hosting.

The place I'm living in have a lot of wireless network protected and they are always on. Just thought of trying out the program you've mention and see whether it will work. Anyway its illegal here in my country and seems that now I hardly find any wireless network without WEP encryption. Seems that people get abit more technical here.

Anyway nice post. Cheers

Doesn't windows come with this????

Windoze doesn't protect you, let alone get pass other people's protection. Wifi is network connections.

When I added wireless on my dads computer, we found one open, ours and one locked (Bt home hub is really common, most of the country got it free) but I havn't got a card to try this.

Doesn't windows come with this????

Does this work with WI-Fi nettworks too?

WI-Fi and "Wireless Networks" are two different ways for saying the same thing : a network without cables, with a very precise protocol, which is embedded in most of recent laptops for example.
If your main home router has no WEP encryption your network is exposed to anybody having no knowledge.
The present topic explains that even if your network is WEP-protected, you may experience intrusions.
Regards
Yordan

Does this work with WI-Fi nettworks too?

In some countrys it's illegal to break the WEP encryption, doesn't matter what way you use. But yeah, these are some really handy ways to get WEP keys from your neighbours.

But still, what'd you want to do with them? >_<. I think hacking unprotected networks is kinda pathetic.