Cracking WiFi at Scale with One Simple Trick,
How I Cracked 70% of Tel Aviv’s Wifi Networks (from a Sample of 5,000 Gathered WiFi). In the past seven years that I’ve lived in Tel Aviv, I’ve changed apartments four times. Every time I faced the same scenario: the internet company took several days to connect the apartment, leaving me disconnected and frustrated while trying to watch laggy Netflix on the TV with my cellphone hotspot. A solution I have to this scenario is having the “Hello. I am the new neighbor” talk with the neighbors while trying to get their cell phone number in case of emergencies — and asking if I could use their WiFi until the cable company connected me. I think we all can agree that not having internet easily falls into the emergency category! Often, their cell phone number was also their WiFi password! I hypothesized that most people living in Israel (and globally) have unsafe WiFi passwords that can be easily cracked or even guessed by curious neighbors or malicious actors. The combination of my past experi...