How to Crack Wi-Fi Passwords with Your
Android Phone and Get Free Internet! Want
to take advantage of your neighbor's super
fast Wi- Fi connection? If they're smart, they
probably have it password protected
(otherwise you wouldn't be reading this,
would you?). But if you have an Android
phone, you can get back at them for always
parking in your spot and slamming the door
when they get home at 2 a.m.—by
stealing...er, borrowing, their connection. A
group of researchers came up with a hack
to get around hardware limitations and add
monitor mode to Android devices to allow
them to crack Wi-Fi passwords. Monitor
mode lets you see all the traffic going
through a network and how many devices
are connected to it, but it can also be used
for more nefarious purposes. If you're
patient enough, you can crack the WEP key
on a network by capturing data packets in
monitor mode. To add monitor mode to an
Android device, the researchers reverse
engineered the Broadcom radio chip. They
modified the firmware on the chipsets in
the Nexus One and Galaxy S II, which are the
same ones used in the majority of mobile
devices. The code is posted on Google Code,
but you'll need to know which chipset you
have and download the right one for your
phone. Once you've downloaded the code,
it's as simple as extracting the .zip file, then
running the setup and configuration files.
They've included instructions for each
chipset and a few different devices , so head
over there to find the specifics for yours.
After it's up and running, check out one of
our tutorials to learn how to use it to crack
the key. So, next time your neighbor wants
to borrow your power drill, rest assured
that you're "borrowing" something much
more valuable from them! Enjoy!!
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