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I’d briefly jam a network… | blogjou

Edward Snowden

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p. 253
12 Nov 2019

I'd briefly jam a network...


I’d briefly jam a network, causing its legitimate users to be booted off-line; in their attempt to reconnect, they’d automatically rebroadcast their “authentication packets”, which I could intercept and effectively decipher into passwords that would let me log on just like any other “authorized” user.