Yeah, but there are plenty of cases where that isn't feasible. Imagine one of these being used to collect passwords, credit card numbers and so on at a coffee shop's wifi network, for example. Also, people are stupid and leave networks unsecured or use WEP when they really ought not to.
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So if you have proper Wifi encryption in place then this device is useless?
Yeah, but there are plenty of cases where that isn't feasible. Imagine one of these being used to collect passwords, credit card numbers and so on at a coffee shop's wifi network, for example. Also, people are stupid and leave networks unsecured or use WEP when they really ought not to.