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Products that do what Nethole – Soft-blocking WPA3 with ARP spoofing does
I created a small bash script called Nethole that uses ARP spoofing to break WPA3 connections—not by deauthing or capturing handshakes, but by silently killing connectivity. Since WPA3 uses Management Frame Protection, tools like aircrack-ng don’t work well for attacks like deauth or handshake capture. Instead, this tool sets up a MITM using arpspoof, then disables IP forwarding to cause infinite buffering on the victim’s device. They appear connected to Wi-Fi, but get no usable internet. It’s a “quiet” denial of service. Tested it on Windows 10/11 and iPads (works), Xiaomi phones…
- 1BR
Jul 2026 · github.com
- 2MU
2011 · radiosilenceapp.com
- 3MW
Jul 2026 · github.com
- 4NS
2013 · ngrok.com
- 5PK
based on the idea from ctrl_freak's comment :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4159644
2012 · paywall-killer.blogspot.com
- 6FE
I found evidence of autonomous mesh networking on iOS during Airplane Mode. What am I missing? Did forensic analysis on my iPhone during Airplane Mode isolation. Kernel stats show 2,657 packets transmitted and 84.5MB processed through mDNSResponder while interfaces report "inactive". Found a parallel utun2 tunnel bound to IDS framework that persists during isolation. Applied Shannon-Hartley theorem to verify the channel capacity supports this volume. Either I'm misunderstanding legitimate system behavior, or this is a covert channel. Reproducible steps and raw evidence included.…
Jan 2026 · github.com
- 7RE
2016 · radiosilenceapp.com
- 8IP
I built a user-space implementation of ping that constructs Ethernet frames, performs ARP resolution, builds IPv4 headers, and sends ICMP echo requests manually using AF_PACKET. - ARP (packet format, cache with aging, re-ARP, conflict handling) - IPv4 header construction and checksum - DF handling and ICMP Fragmentation Needed (Type 3 Code 4) - IP fragment reassembly - ICMP echo request/reply parsing - A basic ping loop with loss statistics The goal was to understand how packets actually move from Layer 2 upward.
Feb 2026 · github.com
- 9IB
Hi HN, I'd like to share a small Go utility I wrote called prxy. The idea was born out of my frustration with accessing my self-hosted services when I'm on the go. I use WireGuard to connect to my homelab, but I really dislike sending all my computer's traffic through my home network — it slows things down and is inconvenient. I wanted proper application-level split-tunneling. A tool I love, wireproxy, got me most of the way there by creating an HTTP proxy from a WireGuard peer. This is perfect for apps that let you configure a proxy. The problem was the other 10%: apps that don't. Think of…
2025 · github.com
- 10MN
Give a local MCP server a public URL with one command. No accounts, no signup — anonymous, ephemeral, OAuth 2.1-protected tunnels for MCP servers.
5d ago · terragohan.github.io
- 11CR
Hi HN, I'm Gzuuus, the creator of ContextVM this is my first post here, hope you find it interesting! I started building ContextVM some months ago, this is an open protocol that runs the Model Context Protocol (MCP) over Nostr. In practice, it’s a transport for MCP that lets you expose remote servers without needing a domain, inbound ports, or OAuth, clients, and servers only need an outbound internet connection. The problem I ran into: When deploying a remote MCP server you can feel the pain. You usually need a domain name, a static IP, TLS certificates, port forwarding, and some way to…
Feb 2026
- 12IW
Hi everyone, after months of hard-working, I'm glad to have something to show HN. It's an iOS app to help you directly capture and intercept HTTP/HTTPS Traffic from your iPhone/iPad with ease. It's suitable for any developers who would debug iOS without needing a computer. You can also share all traffic to Proxyman macOS via AirDrop for better previewing. - Please join a beta in TestFlight (iOS 14+): https://testflight.apple.com/join/nQ69eb35 - How it works if you don't have any devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpzpoTN8efM&feature=youtu.be…
2021
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- 14IT
Over breakfast, I thought about how to circumvent SOPA (as I understand it). Key problem: SOPA allows the government to tell DNS servers to stop linking certain website addresses to their IPs. Abstract Solution: Remove the need for DNS servers in the majority of cases. Idea 1: Have a list of IP addresses stored in each browser so they don't have to be resolved. Just have an associative array somewhere that contains a bunch of really popular websites. Every time the browser auto upgrades, it updates and expands its list of IPs. This could be done as a plugin for most modern browsers. Idea 2:…
2011
- 15TG
Is anyone else on HN participating in this FCC research project to measure broadband performance? [1] I signed up for more information when the project was announced, some time ago, but a few days ago the device arrived. Technically, it is quite an interesting little box. It's a generic consumer device, shaped like a wireless router, with an antenna and five RJ-45 jacks. But it works more like a bridge, plugging in between my existing ADSL modem/wireless-router and any wired devices that used to be plugged directly into the existing ADSL. No changes needed to be made to any of the…
2013
- 16FC
2015 · github.com
- 17PP
Hey Hacker News, My friend and I are building a network level adblocker based on pihole. We wanted to invite you to try it here - https://datajoy.us/try/ 1. Click "Try Now" 2. The results page will show you the IP of our DNS server (139.162.177.133). Put that IP first in your router or device's DNS settings. Don't remove the other DNS entries! Just put us first. 3. ?? 4. Ad free browsing on a single device or on all devices on your network. If you want to join out mailing list for future updates, just drop the /try and signup. If you like the performance of this…
2017
- 18DD
Apr 2026 · flowtriq.com
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Desktop packet capture with real-time mirroring from mobile
Jul 2026 · pcp.realsignal.com
- 21AF
Hi HN! I'm Nick, one of the cofounders of Bitping, and we'd like to share a tool that we've been working on for the past couple of years that lets you test network connectivity from real user devices around the world. We originally were part of a hackathon focused on building a product that is powered by micropayments and we settled on a network that could ping other network devices and users could be paid in fractions of a cent for performing said work. After winning the hackathon, we built an uptime monitoring service and discovered some discrepancies between our data and traditional…
2024 · developer.bitping.com
- 22PA
Hi HN! After several months of work, I'm excited to share ProKZee, a free and open-source network security tool built with Go and React using Wails framework. ProKZee allows developers, security researchers, and penetration testers to intercept, inspect, and modify HTTP/S traffic — similar to tools like Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, and Caido — but with a fast native UI, modern UX, and some unique features. https://github.com/al-sultani/prokzee
2025 · github.com
- 23RY
Hi everyone, I'm Ahmed, founder of LocalXpose (ngrok alternative) - a reverse proxy that enables you to expose your localhost to the internet. This is my first SaaS. I created LocalXpose for (developers, DevOps engineers, sys admins or even gamers) to reach their localhost server behind a NAT or firewall with a secure and fast tunnel. Check it out here https://localxpose.io. Bye bye localhost, Hello World. Support me and give me your feedback, please!.
2022 · localxpose.io
- 24BD
2015 · scan.patrolserver.com
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