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document updated 15 years ago, on Jan 2, 2009

See here, Wi-Fi security is pretty bad. Part of the reason is that the primary stakeholders (homeowners, hotspot users) don't know how bad it is, while the people who have the knowledge to fix it (standards body[IEEE], equipment manufacturers) aren't pressured to do so.

So, it would be a good idea to contribute to wifi-cracking tools. Mainly, I'm interested in making them 1) easier to use, and 2) more widespread. The problem isn't even that a few elite underground hackers know the secrets and nobody else does. Rather, the problem is that lots of experts have been complaining about the problems for a while, and nobody is listening.

Places to contribute to (even if I don't contribute code, just testing out the latest versions, and providing accurate bug reports would be a help too):

Aircrack-ng
- the tools are there, but if it was much more automated, more people would be able to use it (already started with 'wesside')
- dev links:
  - trac.aircrack-ng.org — most of the dev work goes on here
    - bugs (duh)
      - all changes
    - dev wiki (devteam)
  - morenews
more network driver support