Hacking on the hoof

WIRELESS ANALYSIS applications are plentiful across Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Netstumbler, PRTG Network Monitor, and Wireshark – all do the same sort of job. However, lugging around a laptop is not as easy as toting a slimline smartphone. Now the open nature of Google´s Android, coupled with the immense portability of smartphones, has created a new genre of wireless apps that do everything the laptop applications do, but on a wider scale.