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WiFiFox
A menubar app for bypassing WiFi login pages.
WiFiFox is a menubar app for bypassing captive portals in wireless networks. It also includes a tiny network scanner. Works in OSX, Windows and Linux.
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Installation
npm install -g wififox
sudo wififox
Usage
- Connect to any open network (WEP, WPA and WPA2 are not supported).
- Click "Bypass" in WiFiFox.
- Wait for WiFiFox to bypass the captive portal.
- Browse the web. You can just ignore any captive popups.
How it Works
WiFiFox uses MAC spoofing to bypass the portal. It automates the following steps:
- Discovers other connected clients and their MAC addresses through ping scan or passively.
- Clones/spoofs these MAC addresses in random order.
- Checks connection by attempting to reach a known public resource.
Disclaimer
Only use this software on networks you own or have permission to use.
FAQs
A simple tool for bypassing WiFi gatekeepers.
The npm package wififox receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, wififox popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that wififox demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 10 Jul 2020
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