Government SIGINT or just a skid? (lemmy.ml)

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Hey everyone yesterday I was at a grocery store and I noticed suspicious WiFi networks and Bluetooth networks. I am quite tech savvy so I decided to investigate thinking it was probably just some skid. But when I opened Wireshark I saw the mac addressees for Cisco Merkari (A relatively advanced DPI program) , along with multiple other enterprise grade tools such as Fortinet and VMware. I have collected pcaps for both my Bluetooth and WiFi interfaces with Wireshark(available upon request). Does anyone have any idea could this be a government contractor? Or could it just be spoofed cause its relatively easy to spooph Mac addresses.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Neither https://www.spectrum.net/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm fully aware spectrum is a actual company but due to the spammy nature of these networks. I'm not sure these are legitimately spectrum.Especially with the Bluetooth packets and Cisco Merkari Mac addresses.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't see anything spammy nor suspicious. To provide wifi you need network equipment and some of the equipment offered on spectrum's website are cisco network equipment. Seems more like a misconfiguration than malicious intent.

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