[WIRELESS] AP Scanning detection

[Mike Kershaw]

> Well, MAC adresses can be forged (e.g. iwconfig eth0 MAC 
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx), so you could first passively listen for a MAC 
> address and then start scanning.

true enough

> So if I understand correctly it is technically possible to scan for 
> networks and be totally undetectable but this is not the way the orinoco 
> driver (in its very latest edition) implements it.

on linux, Snax has patches to do pure rfmon with orinoco cards.  Stuff
like Kismet and Wellenreiter will work with the patched drivers to do
network detection.

-m

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