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80% of WiFi Networks are still Insecure, Kismet Author Says
acz writes "The brain and guts driving the development of Kismet is Mike Kershaw alias Dragorn, who works during the day on IBM mainframes and hacks code at night. Kismet is simply the best war driving tool out there plus it's free as in GPL and can even run on your linux PDA. In a recent interview posted on HERT today, he says: 'I've become entirely jaded towards security as a whole (or rather, people's complete lack of it) and not much surprises me when it comes to open wireless networks. ... the overall percentage of unencrypted networks is still at about 80%.'"
Shouldn't that be "insecure"? How someone could make this mistake in the day and age of internet dictionaries is unpossible to contemplate.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
Ahh... digital extortion. "I secures dis here network, see, or Clamps here breaks into yous guyses computer and steals yur credit card numbers. Capice?"
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Yes...same here...
why? because I was taught to share growing up...
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
LOL, I went to high school with 'Kersh. I remember how he showed me the first UN*X I've ever seen, mkLinux on his PowerBook 3400. The man is single-handedly responsible for both my affection for Apple and for getting me into Linux. Not to mention that he showed my friends and I 'South Park' long before it was ever on TV (it was '97 or '98 when he showed us jesus-vs-santa).
:-)
Now he's the guy behind kismet, which I use to monitor WiFi at work.
Thanks 'Kersh! I wish you much success with career and hobby, and hope you find a real-life anime chick to settle down with. Send me some tentacle-shots when you do.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Wireless networks have a lower Totacl Cost of 0wnership (TC0) !!!
I took extra care to lock down my WiFi network, just to be sure that none of the skr1p7 k1dd13s out ther could hacATZ#4#R%F^AA@!@5[CARRIER LOST]
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
even though it's not a poll. My network doesn't work well enough to break into. I can't keep my own boxes connected. I guess the correct words are "incompetent clods" - meaning the people who made my router and my ISP.
Simon's Rock College
Do you share your wife, your home, your momey...
yes, he does...but shhhhhh...don't tell him...
...water is still wet.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it! --Longbottle
More specifically, you can ping the dedicated NIC on the paranoid OpenBSD server that lets through connections to my Squid server (which requires authentication), my mailserver (which requires authentication), my DNS server, and my NTP server.
What????
You provide WIDE OPEN completely UNAUTHENTICATED access to NTP and DNS?!?!? Do you have any idea how much damage a serious cracker if enough people take this devil-may-care attitude about network security, and just hand out accurate time information to anyone who asks? Not to mention name service <shudder>.
You, sir, are exactly the sort that is making it possible for malicious script kiddies to ruin the Internet for everyone.
You should be ashamed.
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You are right. Most people out there are as outlandishly geeked out there as you, yourself, and you! It's all about you and how everyone should be like you you you! If only I could be like you!
Completely imbelievable.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
powers my home internet right now. My neighbor of course is oblivious, as long as he gets his pr0n. I am friendly enough to make sure his access point gets its firmware upgrades on time ;-)
That's as stupid as saying that if someone taps into your phone line (note the "unsecured" wires coming into the side of your house!!!) and calls in a threat that you would be liable.
I tried a similar phoneline analogy with my old roommate. He simply refused to believe that tapping into a phone line was as simple as hooking two alligator clips up. For some reason he had this notion in his head that a phone was far far far more complicated than it was...And this coming from a guy with an engineering degree...*shrug*
If he thought it was any more than four alligator clips, you should see into having it taken away. ;)
It's been a long time.
you dont lose anything tangible if you share an internet connection properly.
Ditto for sharing your wife properly. Who knows, she may even learn a few things.
An AC telling an AC "I'm so glad you're not my neighbor."
That's cute fellas.
The unofficial
I live in an apartment complex and I got broadband for myself and my roommate. Well eventually i gooked up a wireless router for his laptop and when I plugged in his wireless card there was no less than 20 open connections. So i bought myself a wireless USB adapter and cancelled the ISP.
I like this no security thing
I've left my window open all day hoping people would put porn in my house!