Timeline for Is it possible to "fake" being connected to a router?
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 15:24 | answer | added | Zypps987 | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 1:12 | comment | added | transistor1 | Use the Innernette! | |
| May 1, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | B00TK1D | Wow. That is truly craptacular. It would be so much fun to run aireplay-ng in that room. Just kick everyone off the network, that way he won't know who is doing it. And by the way, I wonder if he ever changed the default credentials for the admin page on his "secure" router... | |
| S May 1, 2017 at 14:36 | history | suggested | ron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
use of word 'their' and ambiguity in first sentence, modification of 1st paragraph only
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| May 1, 2017 at 12:28 | comment | added | ron | you need to provide more detail on the location, environment, and conditions where this exam is happening, and whether connection to the professor's router is by hardline (cat5 lan cable) or by wireless. Because if by wire, then most laptops also have wireless. First thing that comes to mind is If your phone gets signal then you can just tether your laptop to your smartphone which never leaves your pocket, and unless the professor physically checks everyone and uses a wifi scanner to detect the tethering then the professor would never know. | |
| May 1, 2017 at 12:19 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 1, 2017 at 11:20 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| May 1, 2017 at 8:20 | comment | added | user147106 | Bluetooth connection to a mobile phone with Internet sharing (tethering) enabled. | |
| May 1, 2017 at 6:59 | comment | added | Mast | If the router is accessible by hand, plug the router into another router that is connected to the internet. All of a sudden, everyone has internet. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 14:27 | answer | added | Serge Ballesta | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 12:17 | comment | added | eckes | @lex the link state on directly connected equipment would change. So either it is a switch not a router or there are only a few machines and all directly plugged into the router. | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 21:10 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | You might change the word "router" to "access point" or "wireless access point". I did not at all understand that you meant a wireless access point until I read the highest voted answer, and from a networking standpoint (my field) it didn't make a lot of sense. | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 15:22 | answer | added | kurtdriver | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 9:39 | answer | added | Pranav | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 19:46 | answer | added | AnoE | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 17:09 | vote | accept | Ryan | ||
| Apr 27, 2017 at 16:38 | answer | added | UTF-8 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 13:43 | comment | added | Arminius | If the professor leaves the room - why doesn't every student just pull out their smartphones? | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 13:42 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Technically, "foolproof" means only that a fool can't break the system, right? | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 12:27 | comment | added | DasBeasto | Unplug the router when he leaves. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 11:54 | comment | added | Mawg | And he is a professor? | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 10:01 | comment | added | Drag and Drop | After more than 10 Years, I'm giving you my 1rst cheat. Step1. Get the same mouse as your Computer Lab Step2. Get usb Micro SD only card reader, usb wifi dongle. Step3. Put them into the mouse. If you have time you can add a controller in it. And even click monitoring to activate the rogue dongle. If the mouse is a M90 or older version. You can easly make the card reader usable with out opening the mouse. You now have a mouse with 32Gb of storage, portable Vm, wifi connexion. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 9:37 | comment | added | jpmc26 | Does he fail you for cheating if your battery dies? If he's not even in the room, I don't see how his system would even stand up to scrutiny if you came up with a plausible excuse. Heck, sometimes network connections just go down for no apparent reason. How could he prove that didn't happen? And what if his computer experiences a problem and loses all the connections? | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 7:28 | comment | added | dandavis | how do you take the test? in a browser? the quiz webapp can easily just try to ping an outside site and if it replies (using a 2nd net connection to the wan), you're busted. of course, this can be blocked, but how many undergrands can setup custom routing and a 2nd nic? | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 7:28 | comment | added | SchreiberLex | How would you ever know a computer is connected or not? Just by default OS-network traffic? Seeing a number of IPs taken by dhcp and those IPs talking? | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 7:06 | comment | added | Pavel | I do hope this question has been asked purely for referential purposes, otherwise humanity is apparently doomed. If students these days can't fool an exam system with this level of security themselves, I don't dare imagine what they actually do learn:) | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 5:14 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 27, 2017 at 3:33 | comment | added | Ryan | I don't believe there is a textbook for the class, all the material is purely based off lectures. That being said, and as others have mentioned, there are plenty of ways to cheat that don't involve directly interacting with the router. I just thought it was interesting to see how you could directly beat the intended safeguard. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 3:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/857434718937247745 | ||
| Apr 27, 2017 at 2:35 | comment | added | Ryan | They take the test on their own personal PC's. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 0:56 | answer | added | Arminius | timeline score: 117 | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 0:56 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 54 | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 0:22 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 27, 2017 at 0:18 | history | asked | Ryan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |