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Wi-Fi Pineapple Mark VII Tutorial | Let's Learn

10:081,605 words · ~8 min readEnglishTranscribed May 11, 2026
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This video guides users through the unboxing, physical assembly, and initial firmware setup of the Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Mark VII. It establishes the baseline configuration needed before deploying advanced wireless attacks like Evil Portals or MITM modules.

The Mark VII is a staple hardware tool for wireless penetration testing; understanding its initial setup and web interface is the prerequisite for automating rogue access point deployments.

Section summaries

0:00-1:00

Introduction and Unboxing

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General hype and showing the physical box contents.

1:00-3:00

Assembly and Reading Material

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Primarily focuses on putting antennas on and discussing the creator's book; low technical density.

3:00-6:00

Theory and Module Overview

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Breaks down the PineAP workflow and the importance of learning Wi-Fi basics before deployment.

6:00-9:00

Firmware Setup Walkthrough

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Critical step-by-step for the actual software initialization and internet tethering.

9:00-9:00

Conclusion and Future Modules

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Sneak peek at future videos regarding Evil Portal and TCPDump.

Key points

  • Hardware Evolution and Interface — The Mark VII succeeds the Tetra and Nano models, featuring a simplified design with USB-C power, a single multi-function button for setup verification, and a specialized antenna array for 2.4 GHz auditing.
  • The PineAP Workflow — The device operates through a structured workflow: Recon (scanning), Filter (targeting), and then executing attacks via the PineAP engine which handles rogue AP broadcasting and client association.
  • Dual-SSID Configuration — The setup process requires defining a management SSID (to control the device) and an open/target SSID (to attract victims), emphasizing the separation of control and attack traffic.
it's basically if you don't know what it is it's a wi-fi auditing tool and you can do a crap ton of stuff with this thing it's super cool Blue Cosmo
the pineapple suite again is just the engine for the pineapple's hacking abilities Blue Cosmo

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hey hackers blue cosmo from ccs here

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welcome back to the channel today i'm

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wearing a pineapple shirt which only

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could mean

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we have a wi-fi pineapple mark seven to

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unbox let's go

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pro if that isn't the stupidest thing

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i've ever heard all right

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see y'all next monday peace

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so this is the wi-fi pineapple mark 7.

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um the previous version was the tetra in

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the nano but now they have released the

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pineapple mark 7. supposed to be really

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cool have a lot more features it goes

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for about 100 us dollars um and it's

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basically if you don't know what it is

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it's a wi-fi auditing tool and you can

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do

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a crap ton of stuff with this thing it's

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super cool so i guess we should actually

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you know check it out buy it and dive

0:44

into it i've had this for about like a

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week week and a half now and i haven't

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been able to use it yet so finally

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let's use it right so this is the wi-fi

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pineapple mark 7. let's go ahead and

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open the box

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and we got

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stickers that came with it pretty dope

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and we got the actual little index card

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thing that kind of tells you all the

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information about the wi-fi pineapple

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um we'll kind of use this once we're

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going to actually get into how to use

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this right all right so

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these are the antennas

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it's pretty dope

1:23

all right in here we have

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the actual wi-fi pineapple

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oh that is awesome bro that is awesome

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let's put the antennas on it

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[Music]

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all right there you go

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oh that's awesome dude

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you can see we have a few ports here we

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have a button usb c and usb a

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there's a

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usbc cord in the box

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all right hackers so now that we finally

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have the mark 7 all assembled and

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everything i'm not actually not going to

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dive into it just yet i'm going to read

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this book about the wi-fi pineapple it's

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created by darren kitchen and there's a

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lot of useful information in here i

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would dedicate it towards the tetra and

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the nano but there's still a lot of

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stuff that can help me out with the mark

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7 right now so i'm gonna read this book

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take some notes and kind of review those

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with you all right let's read this thing

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all right hackers so let's check out

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some of the cool stuff that you guys

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have been putting in the self promo

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section of the discord server if you

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want to join the discord server it will

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be linked in the description as always

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so you guys can join that but let's go

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ahead and check out some of the cool

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stuff you guys been throwing on there

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all right hackers so i just finished

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taking the notes off of the book great

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book by the way definitely check it out

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but i am unaware if high-fives actually

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still selling them so if they are

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definitely check them out but if they

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aren't um i will try to do a giveaway

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sometime in the near future so if you

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guys are interested in that let me know

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because i do have like two copies of the

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pineapple book and stuff like that so

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let me know anyways let's kind of dive

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into the notes here i have all my notes

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on the github which will be linked in

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the description and any links and such

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will also be linked in the description

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as well or on the github page here

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now

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if we go on to our book notes right

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this is kind of where

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all the notes i got from the book are

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going to be placed okay

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so the first chapter or module as i'll

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call them is kind of

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this was the name of the chapter

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pineapple white and it just gave a basic

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description of what the pineapple is

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module 2 kind of talked about the audio

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workflow so kind of like the stages of

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an ethical hack but more specific to the

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wi-fi pineapple the pineap workflow kind

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of talked about all the modules that are

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available to the pineapple as well as

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the actual like engine that allows the

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pineapple to hack and do all the things

4:19

module three um basically told you the

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basics of wi-fi and um i couldn't put

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all that information here because it

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would be plagiarism however take the

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time to learn the basics of wi-fi and

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internet and wi-fi hacking and things

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like that before you just jump in and

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use this tool the pineapple suite again

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is just the engine for the pineapple's

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hacking abilities by the way if i skip

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over anything because it's not important

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or if it was specific to the tetrahedra

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wi-fi pineapple setup which was module

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6. we're going to go over this in just a

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second so we can actually set up this

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awesome

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uh you know hacking device uh module

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nine was the web interface so you can

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once you have your pineapple set up you

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can actually access it anywhere on the

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network through the internet right

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and um module 10 was just talking about

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the different modules you can use for

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the pineapple and people can actually

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contribute and make their own modules

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and upload it to this github repository

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here so you guys can check them out and

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you know add them to your own pineapple

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or things like that

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and module 11 talked about remote access

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and as far as i know the mark 7

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with remote access is carried through

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cloud c2 which is hack 5's cloud remote

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access program

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and the web interface that i've linked

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up here i am unaware of ssh and serial

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still eligible for the mark 7 but if it

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is i have the settings right here

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um i would also

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link the um

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documentation specific to the pineapple

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so if anything here is too specific to

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the tetra or nano you can go ahead

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straight to the hi-fi documentation

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and make sure you're doing everything

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everything right otherwise let's

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actually get started and set up the

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pineapple because i've been waiting to

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do this this whole time so now that we

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have my actual wi-fi pineapple plugged

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in it's booted option

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we should see a pineapple

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a82 now if your number may vary that's

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the one that i have so i'm gonna click

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that and hit connect alright great so we

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are connected and

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let's go ahead and navigate to

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this

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ip address all right so i'm gonna hold

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it down for four seconds so i have my

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pineapple over here it's plugged in i'm

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gonna hit the button and hold it down

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for four seconds

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so you would select the whatever network

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you're going to use

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and the password for that network so

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i think that's

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correct you can see the red and blue

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led going on so i guess that means it's

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updating

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so it seems like my pineapple

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um got the firmware update and upon

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rebooting it probably got disconnected

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so i'm going to reconnect it to the

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wi-fi

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and see if that's going to fix anything

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and refresh it all right there you go

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so

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begin setup so i'm going to hold it down

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for four seconds again

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continue with radius enabled continue

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so

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we need a password

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right in our time zone

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we'll call this cp for cosmo pineapple

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the password

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oh yeah so this is the one we can use to

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manage the wi-fi pineapple and this is

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the one our targets are going to be

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connecting to so we can call this

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free wi-fi 103

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wi-fi

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and that current country is our united

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states we're not going to hide it either

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we'll hit next

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yeah we'll deny any of these there you

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go

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yep we'll um those dark mode for sure

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and we'll accept let's blindly accept

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the terms

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set up completed and we will be

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redirected shortly awesome there you go

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so it says root and we type in our

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password

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and

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there you go

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looks like your wi-fi pin up wasn't

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connected to the internet since i'm

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going to use a wireless connection so

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we'll put my password for my monitor in

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here

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so now if i go to like get news i should

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there you go

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we did it awesome all right so now we

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are actually successfully connected to

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the wi-fi pineapple um where on the

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internet we

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are able to

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undo all this cool stuff if we actually

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check

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our um

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wireless networks you can see

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a cp right here

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and a free wi-fi right here

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um so it's pretty cool so we have like

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evil portal tcp dump

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and map

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oh this is awesome

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htcpp

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cool so we're going to try some of these

9:16

out and um

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i'll kind of keep you guys updated on

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that but we're going to try these out

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throughout the next couple of videos

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so let me go on my face real quick

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so that's going to be it for this video

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hopefully you guys were able to

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successfully set up your pineapple the

9:31

same way i did and throughout the next

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couple videos we're going to be trying

9:35

out some of the modules i just showed

9:36

previously so make sure to leave a like

9:38

subscribe and do the whole youtube

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algorithm thing i'll see you guys in the

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next one so stay happy stay positive and

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as always

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happy hacking

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you

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