Hey everyone yesterday I was at a grocery store and I noticed suspicious WiFi networks and Bluetooth networks. I am quite tech savvy so I decided to investigate thinking it was probably just some skid. But when I opened Wireshark I saw the mac addressees for Cisco Merkari (A relatively advanced DPI program) , along with multiple other enterprise grade tools such as Fortinet and VMware. I have collected pcaps for both my Bluetooth and WiFi interfaces with Wireshark(available upon request). Does anyone have any idea could this be a government contractor? Or could it just be spoofed cause its relatively easy to spooph Mac addresses.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Cisco makes the devices and the network management software Meraki. If you have service from Spectrum, you could probably run the service through to those devices, and then to keep track of what they are for an administrator probably altered the ESSID’s via Meraki to reflect it and this is why they are named as such.

      It is a bit strange there is that many if they are serving some service from Spectrum, but this warrants further investigation to the immediate physical area. Does the grocery store or a nearby business have a lot of TV’s or some such? It’s hard to say what the devices actually are for, but my best guess as to where I might see something like this is a place like a sports bar where there are many multiple TV’s with their own boxes so that they can show multiple sports broadcasts simultaneously.

    • Bldck@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Sagemcom produces white label networking equipment for Spectrum. I used to work in the industry and Spectrum was a customer, so I worked with Sagemcom directly.

      This looks like a business setting up new networking equipment. Either as a complement to the existing network (extending) or replacing what’s there.