I have an old sony vaio laptop running Backtrack5 as its primary OS, for the sole purpose of snagging wifi passwords from A-hole neighbors, just in case. It works, but it takes forever. I've seen anywhere from an hour to 10 hours.Feel free to hack their router...
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