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Originally Posted by Paul&John
Does it cracks routers where clients MAC addresses are manually allowed? (so there is a permit list with all the MACs allowed to connect)
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I would say "no" (just an uneducated guess)
There are still plenty of little tricks just like that one in the admin of all new routers.
Stuff that used to take a degree in computer technology is now available in a very user-friendly interface gui to do shit like that at the touch of a button.
I have a D Link router. And I set it up manually of course...but it had an auto setup with some kind of "one button" click that you set up on each computer so it only allows the computers with the correct MAC onto the network.
I also was recently thinking about upgrading to a fancy-schmancy router so I was looking at linkysys and netgear websites at stuff too. They all have a version of that "one click" set up.
Can't get much easier than that. I suspect that as each day goes by and older routers are thrown away and more people want to get the faster "N" wireless...there will be more and more people with new routers using that "one click" set up to only allow the MAC addresses of their homes onto the network. And less and less "open" wireless systems.
Just go to Best Buy and buy a wireless router and you'll see what I'm talking about. They give you a big instruction poster sized paper with cartoon giant sized instructions warning you NOT to leave it open and how to click that one button to take care of it all. (and yes, it's a physical button on the router...and if you are using the corresponding usb adapter at the computer end...it too has a physical button on it)