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  1. Sh!t I'm sorry I should learn how to use the forum one of these days. I'll just post the important part of what I've been posting in the last 12 hours here: Hi again! Sorry about the *really* long silence. I finally got my act together and ordered the first downconverter/antenna. I got it running basically by hacking some wires together, so I would have been surprised to get a signal at all, but I looked at the signal from the 2400MHz channel in gqrx and got this attached result: This was with the stock omnidirectional antenna; I haven't built my cantennas yet. As you can see in the picture, it looks like some sort of amplitude modulation. Does anybody recognize from the picture what precise encoding technique that is, and if they do, some existing software library to demodulate it in real time (in order to get the MAC address of the device)? I'm really sorry about the long silence, again. Thanks! P.S. Fugu, thanks for writing that software, but much to my dismay, when I tried to check it out, it appeare to no longer be on termbin.
  2. Here is maybe a better picture: As you can see there are now multiple distinct peaks.
  3. Shoot, I guess I still haven't figured out how to properly post pictures. Here it is, in a size that is legible:
  4. Hi again! Sorry about the *really* long silence. I finally got my act together and ordered the first downconverter/antenna. I got it running basically by hacking some wires together, so I would have been surprised to get a signal at all, but I looked at the signal from the 2422MHz channel in gqrx and got this attached result: This was with the stock omnidirectional antenna; I haven't built my cantennas yet. As you can see in the picture, it looks like some sort of amplitude modulation. Does anybody recognize from the picture what precise encoding technique that is, and if they do, some existing software library to demodulate it in real time (in order to get the MAC address of the device)? I'm really sorry about the long silence, again. Thanks! P.S. Fugu, thanks for writing that software, but much to my dismay, when I tried to check it out, it appeared to no longer be on termbin.
  5. Great! So if I were to follow this method, how do I go about coding it (i. e. Which language do I use? Do you know any reading I should do?) I assume I need a script for turning text into binary and vis versa, a script to search for all the possible sequences with a given sequence in it, and a script to make the graphics. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to write any of these. Thanks!
  6. I guess what I want help coding is a) something to generate all the possible combinations of characters for a certain length (but I guess you said the way to do this would be to take the binary 1-however many combinations there are of the length and turn that into text?), b) a method to keep these combinations on my hard drive, c) a way to search through them for a certain combination, which could be in the middle of a book and d) the graphics to visualize my "library" of "books". Thanks!
  7. Because the point of this is to have a huge bank of every combination. I could use a random number generator to get a number between 1 and 1 quadrillion, then write it out in binary and read the text, or inversely turn text into a binary number and then a decimal number, but that would be the same as just creating something and then being surprised it exists. I want what I get to be unpredictable. What I want is to be able to navigate around the library/fractal/whatever, click on a book, and read it, or search for a phrase and see all the books that exist for it. In other words, I want the book to already exist and me to find it. Would this not involve storing at least some amount of information?
  8. Sorry, maybe I wasn't being clear enough. What I'm looking for is every single combination of characters for a given length. Most books won't even have any real words at all, but since every combination of characters exists, some books with meaning will definitely show up, since all written information is just a sequence of characters. So I'm not looking to intentionally create coherence or meaning, only to let it occur randomly, in the middle of a huge amount of meaningless books that probably don't even contain any English words. Is that any better? Thanks and sorry about the lack of clarity again
  9. Hi, sorry about the vagueness. When I said I want something interesting, I was thinking that it would just show up randomly, since there is a book for every combination of characters of a certain length. So there is no need to intentionally generate something for any definition of "interesting," only to generate enough books that many of them will have interesting parts. My ideal definition of book would be something long enough to convey information in English, say about the length of a page in a physical book you might read, so about 30 lines and 50 characters per line. That's probably not very realistic though, as it would be difficult to get that much storage. Is that enough information? Thanks!
  10. Thanks so much for explaining all this to me! I'm sorry if it's frustrating. Basically what the ideal definition of "book" would be for me would be at least the length of a page you might read in an ordinary book, or enough room to convey some meaning, plot or idea. The problem with that, I guess, is that it would be extremely expensive to save that much information, which is why I was clinging to the on-the-fly generation idea. What I meant by arranging and coding was basically, what do I do? Basically what I want to have is this huge number of "books", most with gibberish, some with something that is interesting to read. I want to be able to visualize them, be able to search for a sequence, or randomly click on one and see what comes up. Thanks again for explaining mathematically what I would have to do to achieve this. The part that I still have no clue about is how to execute this on a computer. Thanks so much for all your help!
  11. Thanks so much for explaining all that! After much thought, I think I finally understand. I just a few questions. Assuming each 4-letter combination, is one character once interpreted, I still only have room for 24 characters. And assuming that a 4-letter combination is one character and each letter is 2 bits, I would have a total of 8 bits per character, and 42 doesn't divide by 8. Also, if I understand correctly, each "book" from the original library will be one page in the system you propose, and each book will only contain a few characters, which isn't that interesting to read (I was interested in getting long chunks). Would a possibility be to write a function that takes a random combination of books? Also, it sounds like in your search technique, you search for a 42-bit long number and after some searching around, the computer locates that 42-bit number somewhere in the system. Is there no way to search for a string (e.g. To be or not to be) and then get a list of the books that contain that string, one of which would contain "To be or not to be, that is the question"? Last question: how would I go about coding this and arranging my hard drive? Thanks!
  12. So there's no way to have each book generate randomly when you select from a set seed, then delete the file when you're done reading? I don't know if you've heard of the game No Man's Sky, but it has a huge amount of data and that, as I understand it, is approximately how they handle it. Assuming the 4 character language is the only way, is there a way to interpret 4 characters as a full alphabet (with combinations I guess?) Thank you for the AVL tree, although I'm not entirely sure how it would works, especially given that if I chose the random on-the-fly generation from a seed option, it would have to open each document. Thanks for all the help! P.S. What do you mean by a fractal to visualize the set of documents? How would it be organized?
  13. Oh... That's a shame. I guess what I'm wondering is if there is any possible way to make this library, with say 10-page manuscripts. If I were to lower my standards and use a wordlist, would that help? But I guess that might take some of the fun out of it. A friend suggested generating the books on the fly, based an a seed associated with the file for each book. This way, each individual book would stay the same, and I could bookmark some. Of course, then the search function would take an extremely long time, as it would have to individually open and close each book, to search for a sequence. Do you know how I would go about trying this system? Also, do you have any idea how to create the graphics I described? Thanks again!
  14. Hi, I don't know if that's really cool or really disturbing. I guess it's not possible on that scale. However, if I were to modify it, the number of combinations can change. For instance, with 25 characters, 50 characters per line, 30 lines per page, and 50 pages per book, the number is "only" 104846 digits long. This still seems somewhat unreasonable, but a little less. What do you think are the largest parameters I could have, storing the books in plaintext, on a reasonable number of hard drives (not much more than 4)? Thanks, and sorry about the overly-ambitious project.
  15. Hi all. I recently read a story by Jorge Luis Borges called the Library of Babel. If you haven't read it, it's about a huge library. Each book of the Library consists of 410 pages, each one of 40 lines of 80 signs. The original character set includes 22 letters, dot, comma and space. The books are disposed in adjacent octagonal rooms, with a stairwell every few octagons. The special thing about this library is that it contains every single combination of 22 letters, dot, comma, and space, that are possible within the length of a book. In one of the books, there is an accurate 410 page summary of your life. In another, this post is written repeatedly for 410 pages. So I was thinking it would be fun to simulate this on a computer. Can anyone estimate how much storage it would take, in plaintext? I assume a huge amount, but 1-terabyte hard drives don't cost too much anymore. I was also wondering if there is an easy way to make a visual 3-d simulation of this. I was thinking of a simple, wireframe tower of single hexagons stacked on top of each other, and you could click the hexagon to enter it and scroll around the shelves, and click on a book to open its file. The books would have numbers on the spine. I was also wondering about a search function perhaps. Thanks! P.S. Here is a link to a pdf of the story if you want to read it: https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf . you really should, it blew my mind for several hours straight.
  16. Hi Guys, So I found this slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/rob.ragan/cloudbots-harvesting-crypto-currency-like-a-botnet-farmer (which is actually the presentation from blackhat in case you didn't open it) and I was trying to follow the "instructions" and ran into a few problems. First of all, I got a few domains with freedns.afraid.org, and pointed those to mandrill servers. I then added a route from the mandrill servers to the google app that I attached in the first post. Now when I sign up for it, the email gets processed when I say my email si *@appname.appspotmail.com (the google app), but not when my email is on one of the freedns domains. Anybody use mandrill? Secondly, there seems to be a list of cloud services that you can use on two of the pages, and on some of the last pages about controlling the botnet they say to use fabric, an ssh framework. The problem is that I don't know how I would ssh into any of theses cloud services that they referred to (e.g. cloud9, sourcelair...) Does anyone know how I would set up fabric between all these services? Thanks again!
  17. Hi again, Here is a more detailed article: http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/08/08/mining-cryptocurrency-free-cloud-botnet/ I don't get the point of registering all kinds of free domains and MX records of all you need is to sign up with free vps services. Also, they make it seem like you might not need a full vps. If not, what kind of services would they be using? Sorry if I am asking really obvious questions. Also, how would you receive mail to your own domain with the google mail handler? Thanks!
  18. Hi, I just don't get the point of this. I still have to sign up and do everything except for click on the activation link for all of these cloud services. Also, are the intended cloud services application hosting, or VPSs? And how would I control them all together, assuming I did sign up for enough?] Sorry about the newb question!
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    Hi guys, So I was reading around, and I found this article on the internet that looked really cool, and like a fun project: http://www.darkreading.com/cloudbot-a-free-malwareless-alternative-to-traditional-botnets/d/d-id/1297878 I was wondering, exactly what does this do and how would I carry it out? Would I still need to do the whole signup process and just avoid clicking the activation link? Once I had tons of free space on different servers, how would I control it? Are we talking about VPSs, or VMs, or just domains? How would I use this to " supercompute", as they say, or mine for bitcoins? Thanks! P.S. I attached a framework from the Github of the researchers that would enable this automated signup, but I don't know how to use it. Has anyone had any experience with this framework, or something similar?
  20. Hi, I just realized that the image doesnt show up if you are not logged in. Here it is again, hopefully. I hoper this works!
  21. Hi all, I was reading through xkcd and came across this comic. It seemed like a good idea, and I was wondering if something like that might be possible, and if so, how. I would need specifics, like how to set up connections. Thanks!
  22. Hi everyone, I'm back from summer, and although I don't have most of the stuff, I no have the sdr's. There are two questions that come to mind: 1) I'll be able to figure this out once I have my MMDS downconverter, but does anybody know how often a device sends out a wifi connection request? This would be helpful for figuring out the servo speed. 2) Does anybody know how strong that connection request signal is? I'm assuming not very strong, meaning that even with a good antenna like the long-range cantenna in the video, I would only have about 200 meters of range. Thanks!
  23. Hi, thanks for the response. I was just wondering, assuming the mac adress is not encrypted and regularly broadcasted on 2400mhz, how would I demodulate/decode it? Thanks!
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