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As an aside, I'm curious about wireless hacking but don't know whether or not I possess the necessary expertise. Can someone with no prior knowledge of pen testing or wireless networks benefit from this?

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Yes. But you'll have to learn a bit or two to make use of the more advanced stuff. It is indeed a great learning tool, as it offers almost everything you need to delve in.

There's good lectures out there, explaining the things you might not yet know and most of it is fun stuff to learn. Very much worth your time & effort. Hope you're fine with some advanced math concepts, though!

> advanced math concepts

Such as what, out of curiosity?

I'd say it's easier to start with an SDR receiver and passively listening to stuff. Figuring out remote control protocols and whatnot is relatively easy with those cheap tools. If you still enjoy it after playing with that, then jump to RX+TX tools like this, or a HackRF, or others, depending on what you want to hack.

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