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Arjun was a third-year cybersecurity student, and his wireless security practical was due in forty-eight hours. The assignment was straightforward: demonstrate a successful dictionary attack on a WPA2-protected network. The problem was that his lab environment was a mess. His virtual machines kept freezing, Aircrack-ng was throwing cryptic errors, and his laptop’s internal Wi-Fi card refused to go into monitor mode.

The tool began its dance. First, it de-authenticated the single connected client—a process so aggressive it made Arjun wince. A real user, somewhere in the building, just had their video call drop. Then, Fern listened for the four-way handshake. That magical cryptographic exchange that, if captured, could be brute-forced offline. fern-wifi-cracker

It wasn’t a home router. It wasn’t a coffee shop. It was the hospital across the street. And Fern had just captured its handshake. Arjun was a third-year cybersecurity student, and his