For a hacker, there are a lot of advantages to creating a fake network. One advantage forces nearby devices to use their real MAC address if you happen upon a network that's stored in their preferred network list. There are a lot of tools out there for creating fake access points. Spacehuhn has designed one called the Beacon Spammer that's based in Arduino and allows you to create hundreds of artificial networks, all spammed out regularly using different MAC addresses. We can even create fake...
