Original idea by David Nelissen (twitter.com/davidnelissen) Thank to him for allowing me to reuse the idea!
This script scans for wireless probe requests and prints them out. Hereby you can see for which SSID's devices nearby are searching.
Copyright (c) 2012 David Nelissen & Xavier Mertens All rights reserved.
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- 2012/01/11 Created
- 2014/03/10 Merged OSX fork and made minor fixes (timestamp)
- Original source from https://github.com/xme/hoover
- OSX support from https://github.com/hermanbanken/hoover
- 2014/03/18 finished python version (same functionality as perl version)