I’ve become a semi-expert on wireless networking and their security features.. and how to get around them. Before I continue I want to emphasize:
The act of cracking encryption is not illegal just like picking a lock is not illegal. It is the unauthorized access of that network which is illegal, just like breaking and entering is illegal.
So. To sum it up, there are two types of encryption. There is the weak kind (wep) and the strong kind (wpa). WEP can be broken in about 5-10 minutes. WPA can be broken in about 24 hours (as long as their password is in your password try-out list).
The actual process or hacking into a network like this requires a suite of tools called the aircrack-ng suite. You can read their tutorials and such, and I highly recommend you do if you want to get into this sort of thing. It’s a lot of FUN! Be prepared to learn linux while you are at it….
But, once you understand what you are doing, you will appreciate the tool I have written. It automates the process of getting the keys. I wrote it as a type of “set-it-and-forget-it” tool that I could just leave running. It isn’t too clean, but if you can read bash scripting you can figure it out.
Here is a screen shot of my tool cracking wep
Remember! Don’t try to just run this tool without understanding what it does and how to read it. If you haven’t breaking a wep key manually you don’t want to run this. It does WEP and WPA cracking (saving the handshake for later). Good luck! I will provide minimal support via comments on this post. Don’t forget to have your radio in monitor mode first, and if you are going to do wpa you need the mdk3 tool.
Here is the download link to Kyle’s Wireless Cracking Tool.
Published on September 29, 2008
in Personal.
On Saturday we celebrated a my belated birthday by having a LAN party at my work Sago Networks.
Games we played:
Published on September 29, 2008
in Personal.
My girlfirend likes to do these puzzles called Pic-A-Pix from ConceptisPuzzles.
They use a matrix of numbers to hint the puzzler to to filling in pixels to create pixel art. Sometimes there is color. Every week four new PAP’s are pushed out, and I’ve been told that the answers are somewhere on the website…. but that would be cheating. 
So I wrote my own program to decode these and make images using html tables. I have it in my crontab.weekly and I have it set to email them to my girlfriend to annoy her.
Here is the link:
http://a.xkyle.com/cody/output.html
And the mixed reactions from Cenceptis:
http://www.conceptispuzzles.com/forum/fb.aspx?m=28503
So lots of people use computers, and lots of people have harddrives.
At my work I deal with lots and lots of computers and lots and lots of drives. So during a week I see plenty of failing drives, just because of the statistics.
So now-a-days I run a “smart test” on the drive to see how it is. Unfortunately most drive testers and smart tests are crap. So I made my own and I want to share it with you….
It runs in Linux of course, and all it needs is a program called smartctl. (If you don’t have it and you are running Ubuntu, just run “apt-get install smartmontools” )
Here is how you can get it and run it:
$ wget a.xkyle.com/smarttest
$ bash smarttest
Thats it! Just give it about 2 minutes to run. Here is an example output:
Hours: 27519
SMART Errors: 0
Reallocated / Pending: 2 / 0
Read Speed: 41 MB/s
WARNING: This drive has over 26,280 (3 years) hours on it and should not be used as a Primary
WARNING: This drive has some reallocated sectors, this shouldn’t be used as a primary and requires judgment if it is to be used for a secondary
Its pretty self explainitory if you know about drives. If you want to know more about smart paramaters, check out the wikipedia article.
Published on October 9, 2007
in Personal.
Now hear me out, I used to be a hater. It seems that the more people blog, the more the internet is loaded up with wasted bandwidth and ad space. The truth is that blogging has a very small marginal cost, and usually blogging occupies time that would not otherwise be spent doing “productive” things.
But! What if all of humanity blogged, and then we could aggregate all blogs on the internet. Now, what if a mother of a special-needs child is having a hard time putting her child to sleep, so she blogs about it. Then the blogging software analyzes the blog and finds similar posts from other authors (Google plugin?) and she reads about the other experiences of other mothers. Can you see how the sum of human experiences, not just book knowledge (like Wikipedia) are tagged, sorted and searchable.
That is what I think blogging is all about, not hits. I don’t care how many people read my blog. None for all I care. Its the sum of all blogs that adds to our collective experience repository called the internet which is important.
Another way to think about it is like this: imagine a graph where number of reads is the Y axis and you lined up webpages on the X. Sort it and it would look something like this:
(From the Wikipedia Article)
So most people read the most popular websites. My blog, your blog, your moms blog, they are all in the yellow. Guess what? The sum of the yellow is more than the sum of the green! (Sometimes) That is the true power of the internet, is the capability of supporting an infrastructure for the tail end. How? You guessed it: blogs, wikis, and other user generated content. (I hate to say, web 2.0? ::shivers::)
