Well it broke, so I bought another one!

It even has the original stickers. But.. Its slower than I remember. So I’m trying out different Ubuntu versions to see what boots the fastest. Here are my methodology and results.

Methodology:
The first number is the ammount of seconds from the 0 in the grub countdown till the X in the initial X-server. The second number is the seconds till the firefox screen pops up after I click it while its booting (with auto login enabled.) The reason for this is to account for the total time till my computer is usable. (internet) This is with no performace tweaks, and keeping the default settings. (except enabling auto-login)

Yea so I got tired after all those versions. Maybe I’ll come back. So far though I like xfce (I use it on my eeepc (which has numbers of 1:39, 2:05 on xubuntu 8.04….)

You also may not know that all Wikimedia Foundation projects (like Wikipedia) run off of a opensource piece of software called Mediawiki.

The software is the bomb, and I’ve had my own for a number of years to keep track of my own project documentation (like a notebook.) But I’ve never made it public. Well….

My good friend Pete has his public, so I’ve decied to make mine public too, for the sake of competition of course

Mine is more personal, for my own projects, his more more like a Linux/General knowledgebase.

Click on the picture to go there.

That is what n2n is. The supernodes are NOT servers. They merely function as a way to punch holes in firewalls. Once the firewalls are open, the edge servers (think of them as clients) can talk directly with other edge clients. Cool!

I’ve tried this, and so far the only draw back is the speed, it just doesn’t seem to be as fast as you would think it would be. I can’t find any other people complaining about it, but I’ll look into it. But so far this is the simplest vpn I’ve ever setup. Its a single command!

You can see that because it is his birthday, he asks that you email him. I happily obliged.

Ettercap is an amazing tool. Not only does it have a console, curses, and graphical versions, it can be scripted, hacked, used with plugins, and the list goes on. Here is a screen shot of it in progress:

Here is the everyday use senario:

1. Find a network
2. Scan for all hosts on that network
3. Start a man-in-the-middle attack and pose as the gateway
4. all your traffic belongs to us!
5. …….
6. Load wireshark and profit!

But seriously, Ettercap has many tools and features to help you explore networks, for malicious or research purposes.

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.

Games we played:

• Gate 88
• Halo
• Open Arena
• Nexuiz

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://kyle.com/other/pap/output.html

And the mixed reactions from Cenceptis:
http://www.conceptispuzzles.com/forum/fb.aspx?m=28503

This past Tuesday I hosted a DNS training seminar for all the employees at Sago. It went over great! The curriculum involved:

• The difference between Caching and Authoritative DNS
• All the different types of DNS Records
• How to use dig and how to interpret it
• How to troubleshoot dns problems
• Secret DNS Tricks!

I recorded the AUDIO (sorry the audio sucks) and the BASH history for those poor souls who want to listen to me drone on for an hour about dns….

action on detect = “/etc/scripts/arp-alert”

Its so simple, it just runs that script sending the information about the alert as certain arguments. With this I have more control over the formatting of arpalert messages:

In order to do this, I had to write that script, and make it executable of course. Also I had to change the running user of arpalert to root, because the “arpalert” user didn’t have permission to notify my user “kyle”. This is a much more clean solution, allowing me to make different types of alerts look different, having different timeouts and such. If you want my /etc/scripts/arp-alert you can download what I have so far here.