[HN Gopher] TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications fro...
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TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications from a smartphone
Author : sciurus
Score : 38 points
Date : 2020-12-03 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| mellosouls wrote:
| _TinyCheck allows you to easily capture network communications
| from a smartphone_
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| Somewhat disappointingly (and different to my understanding of
| "easily" and "from a smartphone") followed further down by:
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| _In order to make it working, you need a computer with a Debian-
| like operating system and two Wi-Fi interfaces. The best choice
| is to use a Raspberry Pi (3+) with a Wi-Fi dongle and a small
| touch screen..._
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| Maybe they meant easy as "once you have this setup, capturing
| traffic from this point forward becomes easy".
| paultopia wrote:
| By "two wifi interfaces" do they mean "two physical wifi
| cards/chips/dongles"? Put differently, is an "interface"
| defined in terms of hardware or software?
| simcop2387 wrote:
| It's going to be the ability to act as an AP and a client at
| the same time. Frequently this means two physical devices.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Looks very interesting. I wanted to try it out on my laptop but
| it's clear that you can't run this program without majorly
| messing up your system configuration in some way or another.
|
| Does anyone here know an easy way to maybe run this in a limited
| context, such as in Docker or LXC? I don't feel like having a
| script modify my systemd services+dhcp config+network adapters
| but I'm also very curious to try it out.
| sopromo wrote:
| What is the difference between this and Burp Proxy, Fiddler or
| Wireshark?
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