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Seems a bit complicated:

1. Find some one to steal a key from but which I don't care about. 2. Locate a third person that I want to target and move close to them in non office hours. 3. Create a clone of their wifi and try to spoof some website. Hopefully I can be close enough to their device that it would join my clone instead of their other preferred networks.

At step 2 seems like a better idea to move close to the office and start probing around?

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To get that close to the office would be very obvious. You'd have to loiter all day or set up a remote host with some power.

To get near a target in the wild isn't that hard, especially if you know where they like to go on a regular basis.

It's lot easier than a lot of other methods, especially for a high level target like a C-level exec who might have access to bank accounts with millions of dollars and like to work at a local coffee shop on weekends.

> You'd have to loiter all day or set up a remote host with some power

Or park a car outside

You usually can't park close enough to a corporate office to get on the wifi and not be noticed by corporate security.

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