crack thomson speedtouch wpa keys with your android phone

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 10, 2010

[ Thanks to J00p34 for this link.
]

“You can use your android for domotics that’s a lot of fun and
impressive. But here is another way to impress your friends with
your phone. There’s a scripting environment available for the
Android and that makes it possible to run python, which in turn
makes it possible to run the python version of stkeys.

“stkeys is a little tool demonstrating a weakness in the thomson
speedtouch wifi router default wpa key. The default wep/wpa key is
generated by an algorithm which is based on the serial number and
so is the default SSID. The algorithm was cracked a long time ago
and is a nice demonstration of what you shouldn’t rely on for
security. This is a very dangerous situation as wrongfully thinking
you are safe is even worse then running an open network.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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