Re: How to track down a wireless hacker

["Nicholas Chapel" <nicholas.chapel () gmail com>]

On 11/7/07, ep <captgoodnight () hotmail com> wrote:
> So setup a duplicate of the previously vulnerable wireless configuration and
> from a secure linux laptop (only thing on the segment) simply every 15
> minutes pass some unique clear text working credentials to a internet facing
> service you can monitor, like a ftp server or pop3 account. Wait for the
> connection/authentication and log the ip, then get law enforcement and the
> what I think will be a local ISP involved.

We are talking about wireless, right?  Because in such a scenario,
logging the IP address won't make much of a difference since any IP
that the intruder has would be *one that your DHCP server leased to
him*.  There is no ISP to involve here.  Unless of course the intruder
accesses the FTP/POP3/whatever server from a different connection, in
which case he may very well be on someone *else's* WLAN and you'll end
up expending a great deal of effort and time (both yours and others')
and be no closer to knowing the identity of your malefactor than you
were before.

Yeah, I think hoping that the intruder would be daft enough to access
his Hotmail account is about the best you can hope for here.

--Nick

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