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Point crocodilehunter, falcon and btlejack at their successors - #12

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Three tool pages describe superseded tools in the present tense while their successors are already in this catalogue. This points each one at the other, without adding any new tools.

crocodilehunter → rayhunter. EFF's README says the project is no longer maintained (since December 2022) and advises against using it in new projects. The rayhunter page already described itself in relation to it, as the "counterpart" — changed to "successor", since one replaced the other rather than sitting beside it. The LTE Wayfinder caveat already said the repo was archived; it now names Rayhunter as the current path, and notes it needs no SDR, which is the practical difference: Crocodile Hunter wants an SDR plus a host running srsRAN, Rayhunter runs as firmware on a cheap Qualcomm hotspot.

falcon → ltesniffer. FALCON is frozen since 2020 and tied to srsLTE 18.09. LTESniffer's own README says it is implemented on top of FALCON, so the lineage is worth keeping — the note now says which one is the maintained path for the same job. Same pointer added to its Wayfinder caveat.

btlejack → WHAD. This one does not die of code: it dies of hardware. It targets the micro:bit V1, only the V2 is sold now, and its author reported in 2023 that access-address detection does not work there. His current stack is WHAD plus ButteRFly on an nRF52840 dongle — whad and nrf52840-dongle are both already in the catalogue. The technique it established stands, and the note says so.

No controls were touched. btlejack appears in rfsam-ble-at-01 and rfsam-ble-ll-02 only as a bibliographic reference, which is correct — the jam-and-hijack technique is his work and the citation belongs there regardless of the tool's state.

One related page I left alone because it is a separate call: bbc-microbit describes the board as "the reference cheap radio for running Btlejack", which no longer matches what arrives if you buy a micro:bit today.

npm run validate, npm test and npm run build pass.

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