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Story
What is the project about?
R4TKN Ghost Deauther explores how clients and access points behave under management-frame stress. On the Ai-Thinker BW16 (RTL8720DN), your firmware demonstrates dual-band (2.4/5 GHz) behavior, UI on a small TFT, and button-driven modes to evaluate Wi-Fi resilience. The point isn’t to knock networks offline; it’s to study how protections (like 802.11w/PMF), WIDS/WIPS, and client stacks respond—so admins can harden their setups.
How does it work? (High level)
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The device crafts or listens for 802.11 management frames (beacons, probe req/resp, deauth/disassoc).
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The UI lets a tester choose a lab scenario and observe AP/client reaction latencies, retry patterns, roaming, and whether PMF is enforced.
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Results inform mitigation: enable PMF, tune roaming thresholds, deploy WIDS policies, and educate users.
Why it matters to the community
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Education: Makes radio-layer behavior visible and teachable.
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Resilience testing: Helps teams confirm whether PMF and WIDS really catch management-frame anomalies.
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Safety: Encourages consent-based, lab-only experimentation instead of blind trial-and-error in the wild.
Features
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Deauth per client / per station
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Deauth all
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Random SSID
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Beacon + Deauth combo
Step 1 — Flash the board (before soldering)
Step 1.5 — Trim excess pins for fit (Optional)
Step 2 — Solder the BW16 onto the PCB
Step 3 — Solder the 3 × 6×6 tactile buttons
Step 4 — Solder the 1.8″ TFT (SPI)
