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davedx on Jan 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is looking for Wi-Fi access points purely passive?

So for a secure WiFi connection that's saved in your phone: if you encounter one of these WiFi pineapples/rogue routers, what does your phone do once the router says "yes, that SSID is me, connect to me if you like!"? Does it try to authenticate to what it thinks is the secured WiFi router? Is this another vulnerability?

icebraining on Jan 17, 2014 [–]

If the WiFi network is WPA-protected, spoofing won't work, since during the 4-Way Handshake the client verifies that the AP knows the passphrase.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17935197/authenticating-c...

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