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Thanks everybody for your replies... I'll be investigating C(++) for coding little tools under Windows on the "command line". Thanks!

I didn't expect anybody to be actually still coding in assembly. I still do. I'm curious for what you use it nowadays. I used to code in 80386 and a LOT in 6510, but I can't image a situation where I'd resort to assembly in this day 'n age. I think C is the limit for me.

I didn't expect anybody to be actually still coding in assembly. In what situations do you resort to assembly then, instead of a "low high-level" language like C?

I would like to know what your favorite "lowest level" programming language is that still properly works in Windows (XP). I am thinking good ol' C++, but I haven't touched that in years, and never under Windows. My aim is to have a small, fast, GUI-less application that can run on most Windows version. Any suggestions? edit: while you're at it, could you point me to sites with snippets or small source code examples, especially for C(++) since it's apparently hard to google for.

You did that on purpose!

You should go with wireshark (It' how ethereal is named now). It is at least quite easy to sort by IP address of type of packet. It helps you read a packet too. You also can read packets in monitor mode, so you actually don't need to be connected to the wireless network. But you do need at least the key . You should give it a try. It's a nice tool. Thanks Nico, that was the info I was after. The reason I hadn't looked into Wireshark was that it won't run on the specific platform I'm testing (Zaurus SL-5500 with Debian-like Openzaurus). Apparently you can get it to work with some tweaking though. The reason I started this thread was because this seems like such an obvious feature, I wondered why there weren't any sniffing tools around that let you just grep on anything the interface picks up.

Thanks for the replies. l0gic, that is how I understand it too, but I couldn't find a sniffing tool that does just that. With tools like ngrep and tcpdump you sniff packets pretty much the same way as you would on a wired network. Can you grep on any random packet your antenna picks up directly?

This question is not about passwords or auditing a network (mine or otherwise), but simply if packets can directly be sniffed for certain strings, without actually being part of the network. In other words: if I send an unencrypted e-mail while using an open hotspot in the city, does that mean that there are packets flying through the air for everyone to pick up, containing the text of my email?

I have a question about sniffing wireless traffic and I haven't really figured out one thing, despite reading manuals and howto's online. Can you sniff for certain strings (like plain text POP passwords, for instance with dsniff or tcpdump) directly on the packets you pick up, without actually being on the network? As far as I understand, these various sniffing tools recquire you to to connect to the network, which would mean you're not passively sniffing anymore and gave up your stealth. Edit: I'm talking about traffic on non-WEP/WAP protected networks.

predefined programs are opened, with predefined documents for those programs. That way you can click once, and have Word open with a document you use daily, Photoshop with an empty document which you use daily, etc... (Although it's probably overkill to do this in C)

Thanks for the reply, VaKo. I tried every option at every place I could think of, and still I just couldn't tell XP to leave all the fancy "Want me to get the pics off?"-fucntionality, and just give me a plain old explorer window where I could drop files in... I needed these files this evening, so getting a card reader wasn't an option. My friend will transfer the files for me now, so the problem is solved for now. I still hate the fact that XP just wouldn't alow me a very basic, low level connection to the camera, grrr! :oops:

I used to be able to connect my old Kodka DX3500 camera to my computer running Windows XP and it would turn up like a removable USB device. I could upload to it, and basically use it like any other storage device. Now I need to put specific files on a CF card, and I wanted to do this through my camera again, and now suddenly it only recognises my camera as JUST a camera. I can access it through Explorer and download pictures from it, but it seems to be read-only and I can't upload to it. Anybody know how to fix this? I tried googling but found no usefull information in the review/for-sale cluttered search results. ps. Ubuntu under VMWare recognises a camera, but also only gives me the option to download pics off of it, but not to use it as a removable device - or I don't know how to. Aargh!! :(

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Yes, thanks Cooper! I remember reading this thread while researching, I just totally forgot it was on this very forum. Basically it boils down to having my script query www.domaintools.com for the domains on a certain IP. I guess if you manually set up an account at www.domaintools.com, pass your login/password to the script, it could retrieve a list of domains that your have to strip from the HTML page, and have the script work with that. Good thing the weekend is near! :)

I'm working on a Perl script to scan websites for files that could affect their security, for instance the phpinfi.php file. If you scan a range and the phpinfo.php file is found, the script outputs the IP address and a warning the file is found. Ofcourse many sites can run of a single IP address, and to get these I'd need reverse IP lookup. I was wondering if anyone has ever coded something similar and knows of free, legal databases or sites to use (and how to interface with them).

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- doskey dir = logout -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

Cool! You must aslo have the first Hack-Tic where they announce the start-up of XS4ALL? A crappy photocopied ad for one of Holland's best and biggest providers :D Do you know if I can download the recently broadcasted interview with Rop Gongrgrijp? (Half jaar geleden denk ik ongeveer uitgezonden?)

I loved that one, anyone who was active in the cracking or hacking scene in the late 80's will get a kick out of the imagery in this documentary... I really liked this one!

I'm still working on getting my Eagletec wlan card to work on my Zaurus 5500 to make exactly the kind of mobile hack tool you're building, and I guess the list Metatron supplied will be my guideline for most of the software I wanna run.

Damn, I don't like my chose nickname here anymore

I'm really looking forward to how this project will turn out. Maybe a bit late, but here's an interesting C script for keylogging and mailing from Irongeek: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/keylogger . Probably not useful for this project anymore, but still interesting. Oh by the way, which C compiler did you use now, Darren?

In which language are you coding it? C++?

Blogs, forums - webpages that take visitor's input can be closed or taken offline at any given time. Setting up your own blog means that there's traces back to you, so you'd have to take an extra step to hide those. Visitors and bots on an IRC channel can be tracked as well. Which messages you read on usenet is practically impossible to track unless they're already keeping an eye on you, so that's why I feel newsgroups are the best solution of the five discussed here so far.

I think channeling the information to a third party like mentioned above is the way to go. In the days of dial-up access, we coded a little tool that would post the information to alt.test, a pr0n newsgroup, or any other group where the message would go unnoticed. Everybody had access to newsgroups with their dial-up accounts then, so you could ride on the owned user's account, and retrieve the information anonymously. A simple encryption and a flag to find it was all you needed. It beats having the info mailed or IRC'ed to a certain account because there was no account or channel to track back to.

So actually the easiest and fastest way of getting free pr0n and warez is setting up an FTP server and leave it open :P