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Monitoring wifi access.

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My son is a normal teenager and i have a feeling he is accessing inappropriate sites. Is there a way i can see the sites he is accessing on his ipad by looking at my wifi?

asked 07 Apr '13, 10:35

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Yes, if you

  1. have a wifi card and operating system that allows Wireshark to capture the WiFi radio layer. On Windows you need AirPCAP, on Linux/Mac OS you may be able to do without
  2. your WiFi network is unencrypted or you have the decryption key and the skills to use it to have Wireshark decode the packets
  3. you know the ethernet/IP address of the iPad

answered 07 Apr '13, 11:27

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