More of a macro than an app, this anti-stalking app targets the onboard capabilities of the Mac to use the Airtool application to capture wireless packets without need for an external adapter to support monitor mode. A Windows-based machine typically requires a special adapter that supports monitor mode, for example, the AirPcap adapter.
Mobbing victims who’ve put 2 and 2 together may already sleep with the router off and operate their machines with the internal WiFi adapter disabled. For sleep, the computer of the mobbing victim is likely shut down. This app makes it easier and quicker for tired mobbing victims that mobbers tactically sleep-deprive to set up frame collection on a Mac-based machine. All the victim need do is boot the machine. The app enables the Mac’s internal wireless adapter and starts Airtool based on preselected settings. Airtool disconnects the wireless adapter and the collection is done in monitor mode.
This app can be manually opened and started or can optionally be set to open and start on boot (when the computer starts up). You can also optionally set the duration of the packet collection and specify a naming convention to be used to rename and save each collected file for later inspection or aggregation with others. The aggregated results can be filtered for devices like Tesla Powerwall, gaming machines, drones, generators, IoT-enabled major appliances and so on. For example, my own collections have documented devices like dash cams, WiFi repeaters, a drone, a Samsung range, and a PowerWall charging appliance. Aggregate and filter and you may surface patterns that correlate with malicious activity and help to clarify close-range monitoring and stalking.
This app would come in handy on early mornings like this one in Albany, when mobbers use generators, plumbing equipment and utility flows in pre-dawn attacks on sleeping victims through abandoned pipes, sewer laterals, and the low-pressure piping of victim homes.
