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Comment by 9dev

5 hours ago

…and yet it doesn't help at all if a laptop sees an AP with strong signal in its vicinity and connects to that instead of the meticulously configured AP that sits behind the counter with a slightly weaker signal.

You’re not actually making the point you think you are. This comes back to the original comment stating you need to compromise a lot to MITM here.

So you need to somehow trick macOS into remotely connecting to the wrong bssid, and then arp poison a user who happens to be using a macOS cli tool that’s using https.

Sounds pretty targeted and unlikely to happen.

  • Go to a random coffee shop that allows people to work at the tables, and you’ll find a few developers with MacBooks there pretty soon. They will be connected to the local hotspot, which either has no password at all, or WPA2 with the password written on a billboard behind the counter. Spin up an evil twin, then wait for the connections to roll in.

    I don’t think that’s either targeted or unlikely?