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Comment by yunohn

> wireless proximity of the Google Home (but does NOT have the victim’s Wi-Fi password)

Given this, I don’t fully understand the below:

> listening for MAC addresses with prefixes associated with Google

How do you scan MACs without being on the network? Is it like Bluetooth, where everything is constantly broadcasting?

> Attacker sends deauth packets to disconnect the device from its network

How does one send packets to 192.168.X.Y without being on that network already?

parent yunohn 3 years ago

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