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Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes
xs3 writes At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) meeting in Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes. Special Agent Geoff Bickers ran the Powerpoint presentation and explained the attack, while the other agents (who did not want to be named or photographed) did the dirty work of sniffing wireless traffic and breaking the WEP keys. This article will be a general overview of the procedures used by the FBI team.."
Note to self: change WEP key to something other than "DEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDE".
Damn those feds are good.
It takes me longer than 3 minutes just to type the WEP key from my router into my client!
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
I live in the middle of nowhere. I think I may notice two men sitting with a laptop in an ominous black car with government plates, as the only place they could be close enough is my driveway.
Still, it may be time to look at running an IPSEC tunnel over the wireless network.
None of the agents could be reached for comment, as they were all busy arresting eachother citing the Patriot Act and the DMCA.
-Peter
So now when the feds are parked out in front of your house waiting for you to leave your apartment, they can leech off your neighbours wifi...
Actually, the Password was 1-2-3-4-5.
I found that to be rather disturbing, since I have the same combination on my luggage.
What is surprising is that such a l33t cr3w used powerpoint for their presentation :/
Glad I didn't go through the effort of locking mine down. Who has the last laugh now, Mr. "You gotta lock that thing down"?
Adventure City Tours
Nah, they have the manufacturers build in a backdoor! Didn't you watch 24 last night? All they needed was the manufacturer ID and they got root access!
DECAFC0FFEEBADBADBADBADBAD
Bull. They just walked around looking under keyboards.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Just simply combine words from different languages. "Gandalf said 'mellon,' and the doors to Khazad-dum opened wide."
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is one of the 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell \/14grA
dictionary-attack that, G-man!
The other is the PowerPoint guru :-P
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
640 bits of encryption ought to be enough for anybody.
Marques Johansson
I'm not so sure. Wireless security has been historically so bad, every bit of key randomness we can get is probably worth it.
It's like the old joke about the two hikers who encounter an enraged, ravenous bear. The first hiker quickly strips off his hiking boots and starts pulling on his running shoes.
"You fool, an adult bear can run 30 miles per hour," the other hiker says, "you can't possibly outrun it."
"I don't have to outrun the bear," the first replies, "I just have to outrun you."
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I'm suprised you're not using shielded VGA cables to prevent direct snooping of your screen, Steven.
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