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I find it interesting they go over what's considered "insecure" yet completely left out whether any of these networks were WPS enabled, which is crucial when considering the security of a wireless network. Not even the pie-graph shows it.

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I totally agree, WPS is devastating, but he can't use his motorcycle to attack those effectively. He'd have to stay in one place for a while to do a Reaver-style attack. Apparently he can collect enough data for offline cracking even at typical motorcycle speeds?

Beside brute-forcing the PIN with reaver, one can test for defaults first, a lot of people do not change them (or are even aware of WPS being enabled in the first place).

Title's a bit misleading, I clicked it expecting a some kind of a rpi+drone rig. This is still a drive-by, not a fly-by.

Agreed, I was hopeful to see some Wardroning ;)

I'm even surprised that he would be able to deauth and wait for the handshake given the speed of the motorcycle passing.

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