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08-04-2016, 03:39 PM
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Victim's devices send out probes asking if known Wi-Fi networks are available. The devices are trying to quickly connect to networks that they've already seen before. The evil access point simply responds to each and every request with "yep, that's me!

and more &raquo; (http://news.google.ca/news/more?ncl=dmvN4h8AmsgCQ0M&authuser=0&ned=ca)



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