Cracking WiFi passwords with your Android phone

The WiFi adapter in your laptop has a special mode – monitor mode – that can be used to listen in on WiFi traffic and, with a little patience, can be used to crack a WEP password. Surprisingly, this monitor mode can’t be found on any Android device due in part to the limitations of the hardware. A group of three researchers, [Ruby], [Yuval], and [Omri], decided to spend their vacation adding monitor mode http://sciencestupidity.blogspot.in/to their Android smartphones, allowing for a much more portable version of WiFi pwnage tools.