Didier Stevens

Tuesday 11 September 2018

WiFi Pineapple NANO: Persistent Recon DB

Filed under: WiFi — Didier Stevens @ 0:00

The WiFi Pineapple’s recon DB (recon.db) is volatile, because it is stored (by default) in the /tmp folder.

I store my recon.db on the SD card to make it persistent (survives a reboot).

First the SD card has to be formatted:

Then the “Scans Location” field can be changed from /tmp/ to /sd/:

recon.db is an SQLite database, that can be browsed with tools like sqlitebrowser:

4 Comments »

  1. […] store the recon.db on an sd card, so this has to be […]

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  2. About sqlitebrowser tool I see some strange show on interface , but is working well – finally.
    Try selinux , selinux python packages , this will allow you good security on linux and network software, even sd card or databases.

    Comment by Cătălin George Feștilă — Wednesday 12 September 2018 @ 20:09

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