Thanks for this! I haven't really played around with packet captures since back before HTTPS was widespread but I've heard a lot of people gripe about it over the years.

Big shoutout to one of the poor bastards who had me as their student back when Pitt segmented the school of information science away from the rest of the network.

I have no idea if that's still the case, because those moron librarians added a card reader, and I don't know how to parkour onto the roof of that building.

I got hung up on the fact an extra credit question go marked wrong because I said based on the SSID, the packets were from a BSD operating system. The TA marked it wrong and said "no, it's from an OSX system"... I ended up in the actual professor's office, with a listout of the various codes for manufacturers and pointing out there's no "OSX" specific one.

(In retrospect, it was a situation where I was rules lawyering because I was pissed because I kept bumping into a string of people who'd tell me "It's not my job to teach you" only... they weren't some cute woman from Iowa in town for a book signing meeting me for espresso, they were literally a professor teaching, in one case, a "statistics for psychology students" course I selected EXPLICITLY because their students also haven't had Calculus... and they were tanking my GPA.

Anyways, I'm re-hash-ing very old gripes, but it felt like something fundemental shifted when https went widespread, while universities seem to focus on weird CTF bullshit.

(You can just message them on a dating application, though then they'll make a show of refusing to hire you and reporting you to the FBI as a possible cyberterrorist... like uh, I get that it's spooky season or whatever but if someone made an offer I wouldn't be a cyberterrorist anymore!!)

Anyways, I am looking forward to playing with this after I clear my todos. Thanks for the hard work.