I think I broke some public wifi, lol

[manna]

Just for a "lark" I was in a coffee shop today and while logged into their wifi, I cracked a a nearby router with a brute force wordlist  using airmon and then decided to try to crack 2 more and the coffee shops using reaver. Somehow it kept sending private keys to all the channels on the coffee shops one (that I was logged into) and I thought "huh that's weird" then looked around at people getting weirded out and frustrated. A guy went to the counter and told the clerk that the wifi was down and I packed up and left. WTF?

 How is this even possible?

I think reaver fucked up and sent private keys to all the chennels which overloaded it or something, maybe since I was cracking two others without lists at the same time it just raped every packet it could find, I dunno, weird.

How did this happen?

There was also a female cop in there earlier and I had a daydream about putting her in a sleeper hold and taking her gun. Someday...

Anyways, how is this even possible? I don't see how they couldn't be related, it'd be too much of a coincidence and it's never happened in that coffee shop before

[aldra]

it's hard to say without actually seeing the logs; I don't see an access point going down from being flooded with auth requests from a single client. did you spam deauth?

[manna]

it's hard to say without actually seeing the logs; I don't see an access point going down from being flooded with auth requests from a single client. did you spam deauth?

obv I can't post them but no, I didn't spam deauth (at least not on purpose), the channels were sending private keys and rejecting them left and right, it could be that it "locked me out" of the wifi and did something with the password (which is the same one everyone was on)

I dunno really. It's just something kinda funny/strange that happened I was curious about