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The quickest and easiest way that I know of to accomplish 'anonymity' and multiple simultaneous
forum log-in's is to pay cash for a couple cellular broadband modems and anonymously buy pre paid bandwidth. That won't neccessarily stop anyone from identifying your unique information like your origin IP. It just stops most people from using that information to find out who you are. (Name, permanent residence geographical location, etc)
There might be a few other things a person would have to do in order to be pretty well completely safe from being identified or caught in the event that you made someone with rescouces come looking for you (such as the $%EFF_ BEE**I, or your countries equivalent). The CIA found Pablo Escobar (who pulled in up to a half million dollars US every day for many years), so they can find you if you're worth the rescources you would cost them. Granted, it's probably not your goal to hide from an agency like that, but that example pretty well proves that it takes a huge amount of dilligence, skill, and rescources to stay ahead of being detected in the world of electronic communications.
I've done some thinking on this general subject in the past, and I do think there are probably ways of being absolutely anonymous and un trackable, but in the thought experiment, the scheme never works with absolution for more than 10 minutes at a time, and that's going to a huge amount of trouble to make it that way. Also, the theoretical maximum amount of data that can be passed this way is so low that it's only useful for proving it can be done.
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Not really obscure. We had to learn it in the scouts.
I should have said "Obscure relative to most other communications languages/protocols". The odds of two people being able to use this to communicate across a distance greater than yelling distance without prior rehearsal (as in two Scouts taking a test for a Badge) has to be pretty low right?
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I believe it's still used in some Navies to signal ships that don't have radios.
If that's true its gotta be the smallest boats in the smallest Navies! I can't imagine how a Navy without radios could be effective at any operation.
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I thought you all might like this. It's called Semaphore. You use two small flags, one in each hand, and you position them in different configurations in order to communicate the English alphabet. I think you might have to spell the numbers out as in 5 would be "five' instead of '5', which seems a little strange to me, considering all the time you could potentially save. I think I will learn this language for fun!
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I've done this probably 5 times successfully now, but each time, I can not remember how, so I go searching and never find anything useful, and figure it out eventually on my own. This time I cant figure it out. I need to have a human readable hash from a .SAM in order to crack the hash and get a Windows password. I have the .SAM, SAM.LOG, but I just can not remember how to get a hash from that. I do remember that I have never used BKHIVE or SAMDUMP2 to do it, because I tried those several times and I am jus tnot good enough in with Linux CLI yet to make it work. So how the hell do I get from having .SAM to having a human readable NTLM hash that I can crack?
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If there is a way to set the drill up using a pig tail lead with aligator clips. Go to a high current then move it back till it is in range. Or use an auto ranging meter. I dont know if voltage drop means anything.
I don't quite understand what you mean...
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Just ease into the trigger on it and measure under load slowly as well. A quick pull or heavy load may pop the fuse.
I am not sure about combining the two 18v wall warts, but most will not operate at higher currents, but I would expect you to have difficulty finding an appropriate adapter. Under load I would see your drill could easily pull >10 amps.
Bummer!
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You will need to use the fused lead and select mA (milli-amp) as the measurement. On a side note, it would probably be far more trouble/expense in doing all of this work (it is not a common power supply to convert 110v to 18v at sufficient amperage (6-10A at least under load) to make this a practical solution. Even a cheap corded drill is likely cheaper and possibly more effective than this solution.
Ok I'm going to try fused terminal, set to milliamps next. The drill should run if I'm doing it right, shouldn't it?
For 18V DC power bricks or wall warts, what is the highest current that I am likely to find available? It seems like there would have to be some available. if they aren't readily available, could I possibly use two 18V wall warts, with each of them having half of the current I need to run the drill, and combine them to still have 18V and sufficient current?
I have probably a dozen 110V AC drills, and probably even more 110V AC screw guns, this is just something I want to do so I hope I can figure it out!
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One lead on battery v+, then other lead on wire that should connect to v+ on battery. You do have to be careful and select the current amperage rating or you can blow the fuse (unit if cheap) checking current.
battery positive terminal ----wire--- probe (red) probe (black) ----wire---- drill positive terminal
You need to make the current flow through the meter.
I tried this out, and I must be misunderstanding because the drill wouldn't work. The configuration was; Meters leads used to connect the battery's +V terminal to the drills +V terminal, so in other words, I used the meter as the wire between the battery and drill +V. I had a jumper cable connecting the battery's -V terminal and the drills -V terminal. The drill would not run. I switched the meters red lead from the meters "V/F/C/Ohm/mA/uA" terminal to the "Fused 20A MAX" terminal. I checked the meters fuse, which is good. I tried milliamps, as well as whole Amps settings on the meter. Drill still doesn't run. I plugged the battery in to the drill directly and the drill works. I tested a wall outlet with my meter, it reads AC voltage correctly........ What next?
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One lead on battery v+, then other lead on wire that should connect to v+ on battery. You do have to be careful and select the current amperage rating or you can blow the fuse (unit if cheap) checking current.
battery positive terminal ----wire--- probe (red) probe (black) ----wire---- drill positive terminal
You need to make the current flow through the meter.
Ohhh OK I think I got ya. My meter has a special lead terminal that says "Fused 20A MAX". I assume I need to use this terminal to check current? Will this tell me what kind of wall wart or power brick I need to run the drill?
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IIRC current must be read inline with a meter.
So both leads on +V?
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I'm not an elecrtical expert but wattage is voltage multiplied by current thus 2.49W (20.23*0.123) however I think your readings are wrong , the voltage could be on the money but I doubt your current is. How exactly are you taking your readings? i.e with the meter in series and what meter is it , i.e are you using it on a high current setting?
I had my meter set to read amps, with one lead connected to the +V battery terminal, and the other lead connected to the -V battery terminal. Is that the wrong way to test for current?
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I need a 110V AC to 18V DC adapter that can power an 18V DC battery powered drill. My problem is, I don't know all of the specs that I need to know in order to get the right 110 Volt AC to 18 Volt DC wall wart/power brick. I connected my meter inline with the drills main power circuit and put the drill under working load, using its battery as the power source, and I got a reading of about +20.23V DC and about 0.123 amps (And I don't know how to check for the wattage that the drill is using while it is operating). I then used an old 18V (1 AMP) AC to DC wall wart to power the drill, and the motor would barely turn, at about 3 RPM, but I got similar readings on my meter as I got when I used the drills battery to power it. I'm obviously missing some fundamental principle of electricity that is keeping the drill from running. Is the wall wart incapable of supplying enough wattage or what? Basically I just need a good estimate of the specs that a wall wart would need to have in order to power the drill reliably. If it helps, the drill has only two contact points that connect it to the battery.
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Have her go to ipchicken.com and double check the IP. Might have sent you the wrong address.
Usually, IIS is is something you would setup on Windows Server 2003/2008, but has to be manually setup. Its possible to do it on Windows XP, 7, etc, but not something you would find on most home users machines. If you are seeing that, might not be the correct IP. Investigate a little more, post back what you find.
She did, in fact, misunderstand my instructions (not sure how) and gave me an incorrect ip address.
That question has been answered, but now I'm curious to know more about IIS (which is a good thing). I have no idea what IIS really does or why it's needed. Wiki says that it's server software that is included with Windows Server and some desktop MS OS's, but that's not enough info for me to understand what it does. Does this software just hand out files, which are intended to be accessed by public internet? If this software is intended to turn a piece of hardware into a web server, then why don't we simply use IIS as our webserver instead of having to use lots of other server software?
I'm so far behind on this stuff because, as a kid, I didn't have very much opportunity to use a computer. As a consequence of that, I am still waaaay behind in my understanding of networking technology. I've said before that the one and only way that my parents really failed me as a kid was never recognizing my obsessive interest in computer and networking science/theory. I never had one, so I had to learn by using the computers at a wealthy friends house or at the schools I went to. Elementary school had a single Tandy 2000 (which was beautiful), and high school had two computer labs, but we were only allowed to use those for official computer class business (A rule which I categorically disregarded).
Anyway, this is a long way off my original topic, better stop typing...
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My sister wanted me to help her out wiht some stuff, and so I asked her to give me her ip address. I went to it, and I got the graphic you will see below. The image has an embeded link, which goes to the URL you will see in the picture. WTF?! The server identifies itself with an invalid certificate, by the way.
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I never noticed it much either until someone -1'd something of mine and my reputation went from neutral to bad. After I noticed, it seems like everyone started to use it right after that, but If I htink back to a few years ago, I'm pretty sure I remember seeing it then. I think the flaw with the system is the tendency of people to only pay attention to it when they don't like something you said, and to ignore it the rest of the time.
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Wasn't it Untangle? Or maybe Smoothwall?
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the Cubox is about the same as the pi. It more computer at a larger price but same great size.
The CuBox seems pretty cool, and it has a pretty reasonable price. The only problem is, it seems to be another one of these 'too good, cheap, and cool to be true' type of products, just like the $35 Raspberry Pi and the $99 Cherrypal netbook. I've found most of these products to be more of a mixture of good intentions and high hopes than something that you can actually acquire and use as promised. The CuBox probably has about the best hardware specs compared to the rest of the super cheap development/experminetation hardware platforms but I'm still skeptical that it will become a common reality.
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I've recently started learning the Linux CLI. It can be much more difficult than it seems it should be. I've been spending most of my free time for the past week or two in the command line and mostly what I've learned is that it takes a lot of time and dedication to really learn. It really helps to have a guru to ask for help. I am going to learn on my own (but also with help from people who know what they are doing) before I take any classes. I have found that the basics of the Linux CLI are much more expansive and specific than the basics of Windows or other graphical software. The point is, its probably best to learn as much as you can before you take classes, as you would probably be very lost in a short period of time in even a beginners class, if you are anyhting like me that is.
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The short cut for the terminal, can be added, just go to the menu and search for the terminal, right click it and add to desktop or add to toolbar or whtever the other option is. Either way, its only a shortcut, not so much a "backtrack" think, just the way they set Debian up. Its Debian based, shares some characteristics with uBuntu, but backtrack is not ubuntu and ubuntu is not backtrack. Backtrack is a customized, highly modified distro for specific tasks, mainly security and pentesting, and not everything that works under normal linux distros works the same way in backtrack. For example, installing native debian packages and programs, might have conflicts with the backtrack kernel and some hardware, as well as some software. If you want more user friendly, go with straight uBuntu or another dekstop linux distro, but for me, backtrack works. I have Opera and the latest version of Flash installed, so I can watch youtube and listen to grooveshark, so other than those two things, I don't worry about the rest of the bells and whistles or what normal desktop features it has or can do. Its not my main desktop, and to be honest, I rarely boot up my laptop anymore other than to mess with backtrack when I have to remember how to do something to answer someone's questions or if I want to learn something new, like reaver, which I haven't gotten to work properly. Windows 7 is my main OS, because its what pays the bill and how I earn my living doing web and graphic design, while backtrack, is more or less for fun/hobby when I can find the time to tinker.
I'm not so worried about having normal desktop functions or user friendly stuff as much as I am just learning everything I can. I'm still trying to figure out how to fix everything on the sudo desktop to the way it looks as the default root user. I'm trying to remember how I got the Windows key to open a terminal!
When I get that stuff done, I'll try to capture a WPA handshake and crack it, but I'm going to use another machien that has a chipset that matches exactly to one on the list of known working chipsets. I hope to get some help with that, but hopefully I won't run into a problem for every single command like I have on my netbook with the stupidass broadcom chip.
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So I found this tutorial online that is supposed to explain how to create an unpriviliged user in BackTrack 5R2. This is a good example of how useless the tutorials seem to be. I haven't found the first online tutorial that actually works. I follow them, exactly, and I haven't found the first one that actually does what it is supposed to do. I understand that BackTrack is not intended to be a distro for anyone to use to learn Linux, but if I were the kind of person that let that kind of thing stop me I would have no business posting in a forum for hackers.
Anyway, here's the link to the tutorial that doesn't work for me.. There are many others that don't work just as well as this one doesn't work. I've gone over the commands and other instructions several times, and made sure I followed it exactly and there's always something that goes wrong. This is why I need a teacher.
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My bad, thought you were using it in a VM for some reason. Either way, seems to be issues with that 8187 card, it has two different drivers you can try with it to see what works best. Worst case, startx under the new user, ignore the error for now, then once in the gui, get yourself online via wicd, and then do the update and reboot and the error should go away. As for not being able to do the sudo command, what was the error? Was it a sudo error, or connection error for getting online. Remember, after doing the wpa supplicant part, you need to then get an IP from the router via "dhclient wlan1" or whatever the NIC id is. You can try the airodump/airmon stuff later once you get the basics down.
I plugged the Realtek into a Windows machine, and it came up as a RT8188S chipset, ang not an 8187. I'm not sure if that could be part of the problem or not. Either way, I'm not going to worry about trying to learn command line WPA cracking until I can at least assoicate with the AP from terminal.
As for fixing the issue of having a default Ubuntu desktop instead of a BackTrack one, I thought the fix of running sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session had to be done before starting the x server. I have just tried running the command frm the terminal after logging in as sudouser, and I get the same error as before which is "E: unable to fetch some archives, amyb erun apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?" Running sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session --fix-missing doesn't work. I logged out and logged back in, ran the command again and it fixed the error message, but I still have the default Ubuntu desktop. Changing the theme changes some of the desktop elements to BackTrack defaults, but the background is not right, there is a blue question mark in the place where the terminal button should be, and there are a whole bunch of other small things that don't seem right.
I can't remember exactly what happened when I tried to use the terminal to associate with the AP. I will have to try that again and report back. For now I would like to figure out why my sudouser desktop still has a lot of Ubuntu like elements still lurking around even after changing the theme to "Dust".
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Most broadcom chips, only work for connection to access points, and don't work well with injection. As for the realtek 8187 there seems to be a bug in VMware with this card because there were two versions of the card with different radio types/drivers see here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Rtl8187_vs_r8187
These are tested and working cards: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Drivers#Tested_and_working_cards
I'm not udnerstanding what VMWare has to do with the wifi card. To my knowledge I'm not using VMware, unless BackTrack defaults to using it silently for some things. I know I didn't install it intentionally.
Anyway, I'm still feeling like the issue is with me and not the hardware, since I had airodump working before with the same hardware. I want to fix the problem with the defualt ubnutu desktop before I figure out why I can't get airodump-ng working, but before I fix the desktop I have to figure out why I can't get sudo apt-get install sudo-applet-session to work.
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Thats my bad, take out the .= sign in -c.=/home/sudouser/wpa.conf
Should be "-c/home/sudouser/wpa.conf"
I got connected to the AP, according to "CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to (MAC Address of router) completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]. The problem now is that I don't get a prompt after that so the only thing I can do is quit, which closes the connection, so I am unable to issue "sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session" to fix the problem with the defualt Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. If I Ctrl+c and then run "sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session" I get e: unable to fetch some archives. If I run "sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session --fix-missing" I get "Something wicked happened resolving '32.repository.backtrack-linux.org:http' No address associated with hostname. Fuck this is complicated! It's still great fun learning this stuff though.
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I just renewed my drivers license on a completely open ipad 1 at the Department of Homeland Security over WiFi. That is all.