Hello Reader!

Right now I’m sitting in a Cafe near my place, where I spend most of my weekends and was going through few of my old Powershell scripts, I saw the one which I’m sharing right now because it works well in public places, with lots of people 😀

So today we’re looking it a quick script to Identify Unsecure WiFi Connection nearby you.

Yes unsecure! that means without a password in an automated fashion 😉

HOW IT WORKS :

To make it work is a 4 step Process –

Find all Nearby Wifi connections and their properties using Netsh command . Convert the results from step one to Powershell objects , and filter out Open WiFi’s ( Without Password ) Log results to a File with Timestamps Display a Balloon notification in system tray

HOW TO RUN :

There two ways to run the script –

Run it On demand , whenever required by executing it in any Powershell host. Schedule the script execution in Task Scheduler to run it every 5 mins (Preferred approach

PURPOSE :

Purpose is NOT stealing your neighbor’s WiFi data 🙂 !! But, I wrote this script just for fun 😉 and to educate people to at-least keep a password on their WiFi.

Infact I just called out a name of Guy who was flaunting his open Wifi on his Iphone 😀 later got weird looks from him across the cafe.

SCRIPT :

Hoping you’ll find it fun!! 🙂 Happy weekends!

Prateek Singh

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