For those that dont know KisMAC is is a wireless network discovery tool for the mac. Similar to Kismet for *inux and alot better then Netstumbler for Windows.
It is now no longer under development because the German goverment passed a new law makeing such programs illeagal since they can be used for hacking password protected wifi networks (WEP hack). KisMAC was being developed in Germany and the developers didnt want to risk lawsuits or jail time. Hopefully someone outside Germany will pick up their work since its a very good program.
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Well there goes everyone's hope of it supporting Airport extreme. I wouldn't be surprised if someone else picked up the project though.
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Is KisMAC open source?
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It is/was under GPL License.
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We're going through the same thing with gun control in the us right now
And to think we had a revolution over taxes -
There is a beta copy out which does support airport extreme. Google to find it.
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does kismac work 100% with a macbook?
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Technically it works. Depends what you want to use it for I guess. iStumbler is a good alternative if you use it to search for wireless signals.
KisMAC no longer in development
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by wave, Jul 30, 2007.