ESPTool is the “Wi-Fi Security Swiss Army Knife”

Projects involving the ESP8266 module have been popping up all over the place. With its tiny form factor, impressive capabilities, and a…

Hackster Staff
8 years agoSecurity

Projects involving the ESP8266 module have been popping up all over the place. With its tiny form factor, impressive capabilities, and a price of well under $10, why not? Billed as the “Swiss Army Knife of Wi-Fi Security,” the ESPTool uses this device to demonstrate how easy it is to crack a wireless password or jam your Wi-Fi so you can’t access the Internet. Sounds great, right?

Besides an impressive array of hacking tools (which are still being developed), it also features several buttons and an OLED display for an operator interface.

The hardware is designed to be a relative generic and reusable Module around the ESP8266 WiFi Plattform. The Schematic is loosley based on the NodeMCU Project, however instead of breaking out all the free pins, all pins are used for a bunch of devices.

One should note that the project’s writeup claims that it’s illegal to use this on networks that you don’t own. Just because you can hack a network doesn’t mean that you should!

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