Originally Posted by
DMSFCA
So I'm in a conference in San Francisco today and watching a presentation and some guy sitting in front of me is tryping away on his netbook.
I look a little closer since it looks like he is tooling away in Linux and I can see clearly he is using tcpdump to capture wifi traffic here in the room and keeps trying to snarf mac addresses over-the-air to clone onto his machine and keeps trying different ones he finds to se if it gets him out the hotel network.
Am I too old fashioned that I consider this guy a total tool? Is this something all the cool kids do now and I'm just not so easy going?
I would definitely consider him a bit of a tool, but it could be MUCH worse than trying to avoid paying the $9.95 (or whatever) fee the hotel wants for network access.
Go to Defcon one of these years if you want to be truly frightened, but I would NOT recommend using any wireless networking while you're there. WiFi and Bluetooth at Defcon are like walking thru a bad neighborhood late at night wearing a jacket made out of hundred dollar bills. 3G is safer (but still not totally safe).
Bob