Marriott wifi blocking

Alistair Mackenzie magicsata at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 20:15:28 UTC 2014


You could monitor it with something like airodump-ng and send deauth
packets if its not associated with your own BSSID(s)

On 3 October 2014 21:06, David Hubbard <dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com>
wrote:

> Saw this article:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/travel/marriott-fcc-wi-fi-fine/
>
> The interesting part:
>
> 'A federal investigation of the Gaylord Opryland Resort and
> Convention Center in Nashville found that Marriott employees
> had used "containment features of a Wi-Fi monitoring system"
> at the hotel to prevent people from accessing their own
> personal Wi-Fi networks.'
>
> I'm aware of how the illegal wifi blocking devices work, but
> any idea what legal hardware they were using to effectively
> keep their own wifi available but render everyone else's
> inaccessible?
>
> David
>



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