Build a wifi scanner with Python
The other day I was trying to watch Mr.Robot and my upstairs neighbours were being extra rowdy so I did the neighbourly thing and knocked on their door to let them know, hoping they would calm down and well I basically got the door slammed in my face and resigned myself to live the remainder of my lease with upstairs elephants stomping around but it got me thinking what would Elliot do ? well hack their wifi of course.
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So the hypothetical hack I imagined Elliot would come up with was something along these lines: