[WIFI Kit]

I was just wondering where everyone buys their kit from?

I recently bought a few antennas from http://www.wifi-link.com and the quality is good.

So do you get a free usb adapter now?

I do see they have a 1watt usb adapter. That's quite a bit of power, not sure how it stays FCC legal with regards to ERP but it's something to look at.

[getting interceptor on fon]

is there a set of instruction to get interceptor on the fon like there was fon jasager any help would be appreciated thanks

You mean other then the full color install walkthrough _{with the circles and arrows and paragraphs under them explaining} that's provided by the author

http://www.digininja.org/interceptor/install_walkthrough.php

[Increasing the security of WEP?]

Shaman made an awesome java front end for the aircrack tools. Shame he's fallen off the face of the earth.

He's playing poker with Blackwave, Dutch and Chubbs ;)

[New Antenna for The Pineapple]

Hi Beakmyn

My enviroment consists of some office departments which is separted by different paritions . I plan to get something like this with a pig tail http://www.1powershop.com/en/computer-netw...p-smastand.html

Will this work ?

You'll loose 1-3 dB with the cable on those types of antennas. There's a reason they're so cheap. You'd be better off with a quality panel or patch antenna

I'd go with something like this:

http://www.fab-corp.com/product.php?produc...=250&page=1

You'll need a N to RP-SMA pigtail

or even

http://www.fab-corp.com/product.php?produc...=250&page=1

[American built PC's are better then China built PC's]

Then again Dell doesn't make PCs they're actually just a big huge inventory management company. They sub-contract out all the PC building.

Just as most laptops aren't made by the companies whose name is on it. Search laptop ODM. I have a Sager at home it's made by Clevo who is the actual manufacturer. Which was nice on my old Sager when I had a problem and I called Tech Support I got connected to an engineer not a someone reading from a script on a screen.

IBM <i>was</i> one of the last companies to make their own computers. A few years back they stopped that.

Anyway's they're all assembled overseas in "Asia" where labor is dirt cheap and people are willing to do the work without flex time, health insurance and other benefits.

Nowadays it's comes down to features, price and god me help if I need it, tech support. The last thing I want to be asked when I call tech support_{during that short period when business contracts were outsourced} is whether I tried turning it off and back on again. This stems from spending 2 hours running diagnostics on a machine before I called tech support only to be told to do it all again over the phone. Then spend another 2 hours (playing solitare) with tech support who, after the mind numbing two hours asked for the serial number and in 2 seconds replied. "Oh that model had a bad thermistor that would cause shutdowns above 80 deg F we'll send out a new motherboard". Yeah, I wasn't too happy to hear that and told them, "No you won't you'll have Hell rep on site tomorrow morning by 10am with the replacement parts and he will install and test the system."

[New Antenna for The Pineapple]

Hi Guys

I plan to get a new antenna for my pineapple , But im not sure what kind of connector or what is the best 10 dBi omni-directional Wi-Fi flexible antenna that will fit my pineapple

Sure need some advise ?

What are you planning do with the pineapple? I.e. what will it's evironment be? The connector is an RP-SMA. If you just want omni directional then pretty much any decent quality rubber duck will do. I would stay away from those with cables since most use a lossy cable. Of course higher gain generally means a larger physical antenna. Which can be cumbersome.

[Finally, Geoip weather]

I travel a lot for business and it's always been a pain to get the latest weather. I was working on a rainmeter config that would parse your geoip but then there was no way to put that into a weather query. Then there was that whole fiasco with weather.com and the rainmeter program.

So, finally on a whim I tell Google to find me geoip weather and up pops

http://geoipweather.org/

Awesome, now to create my a new weather config for Rainmeter.

[A plea to you I need a copy of Enterntainment Weekly]

I need a copy of the Entertainment weekly with the "Video in Print" ad. You know the one with the tiny video player in the magazine.

The problem is the magazine was only available to subscribers in NYC and LA. Someone's gotta have a friend, grandparent, etc that has a copy they don't mind parting with.

Let me know.

[Episode 6x07]

A large full scale tanker horn....one that is the 300 dB range......really wake them up! :)

Heh, heh there's no place for the air tank. A guy I know had real train horns mounted on his truck, He had a 50 gallon air compressor in the bed to power the horns.

Hellas are good horn, had them on my Subaru and they we're plenty loud on a car so they'd work great on a bike.

[Episode 6x07]

Hmm, I found Openvpn ALS

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn-als/

OpenVPN ALS is a web-based SSL VPN server written in Java. It has a browser-based AJAX UI which allows easy access to intranet services. OpenVPN ALS is a direct descendant of Adito, which was a fork of SSL-Explorer.

[How old is too old?]

I ran out of space to keep old useless shit, can afford to replace it and have a gf with very particular ideas about the number of computers I can keep in the living room. All of you kids with tons of old kit will find this to be true eventually.

Nope, I got something called "my basement". Sorry Barry.

[Increasing the security of WEP?]

Got an issue I'm trying to develop a potential solution to.

A client has a rather large wifi network at one of their production facilities. The problem we're facing is that it's WEP-based, and due to certain wireless devices, can apparently only be WEP. It's also a single network across the board, no DMZ's or anything.

Knowing that WEP is fairly easy to crack, is there anything that can be done to increase the security? This would have to be no cost at the moment as there is no budget for new hardware. I'm already planning on advising them to look into new scanners that can support at least WPA, but that wouldn't be for another six months until the new fiscal year.

The AP's are Cisco 1200's too.

Thanks!

By saying scanner and production environment I'm taking a leap and assuming that you may be using Symbol wireless barcode scanners. Perhaps the handheld units running WM5.0.

What we did was to disable DHCP on the router use static IPs and set a very restrictive subnet mask (max 6 devices) , turn off ssid broadcasting, turn on MAC filtering. Since these scanners were the only thing that was wireless we locked down the router to only pass traffic on the port(s) that were needed and then only to the IPs needed. We blocked HTTP(s),FTP,IRC, et. al.

We also put a policy in place to change the WEP key routinely.

[Episode 6x07]

Next episode looks interesting. I got to meet Bob Bruninga a few weeks ago in Maryland. I happened to be in town for a client and he was giving a talk at a local ham radio meeting.

[nmap ?]

Exactly what needs to be done. The DHCP Clients table will see what IPs are assigned from the router. WPA2 is still breakable so the whitelisted MAC address is way more secure.

You've got to be kidding. WPA2 while it is breakable it's hardly a trivial task. Sure you could create a rainbow table but that takes lots of time. You could use parallel processing to brute force the key but again, that still takes

MAC filters are about as good as cloaking the SSID. Both are easily circumvented and aren't very secure.

For cloaked SSID just passively monitor with Kismet within a minute you'll get the SSID

For MAC filters one only has to spoof the MAC of an already connected client.

Me, I leave my wifi wide-open. However,

wireless clients are isolated from the LAN on their own seperate physical network and they are also isolated from each other.

Wireless clients must also login to the portal using ssl, in order to gain access to the internet. I'm not concerned with encrypting the normal data streams.

I'll be implementing a Radius server once the snow starts falling.

[Unhackable Netbooks]

Melt it with thermite, enclose in concrete block and bury in the back garden and you come close to unhackable.

Nah, concrete is porous so given time nature will hack it back to it's elements.

[Mag-stripe readers]

The mag.c program is a console app, you need to run it from the command line. The command "mag decode sample.wav" will output: ";6006491630003757904=161211069586096?4".

mag.c is quite limited, it only understands track 2 data, I wrote it as a learning exercise - don't expect a lot from it. (but if it helps you understand how the data is stored on a magstripe, great!)

I don't know about anybody else (I'm quite surprised how many people have downloaded the file from my post in this thread), my interest in this was just to see how easy it was to read magnetic data with a magnetic head.

I agree that buying a reader is a better way to go about reading the data from most cards. But I still like to be able to do it this primitive way, just 'because I can'. :)

Ok the just because I can, is valid. After all I programmed a Motorola in assembler to decode the raw flux reversals, in forward and reverse swiping directions and then displayed the data on a serial display.

If you want a cheap reader watch ebay and the business section of craigslist for POS terminals. You'll need an off brand name for to get less then $50. Anything from Magtek is pricey.

[How old is too old?]

My pfsense box is a 500MHz Celeron. I've got some older Pentium 100Mhz laptops that function well as single purpose devices (picture frames, kismet, etc).

Even small hard drives are useful to keep around if all you want to do is a quick install and test. A 2.5GB drive is great for that.

I repurposed an old power supply to use as benchtop supply to power my ham radio gear.

Now, the one thing I can't get rid of is the old CRT monitor I have. That is useless now.

[Mag-stripe readers]

Ok, this is a bit confusing for me. With magnetic card readers so inexpensive now. You can get some surplus for less then $10. I got mine free from a manufacturer, back when companies gave out free samples. I have to ask why are people trying to re-invent the wheel? Cheap hardware is out, not only readers that decode the standard tracks but also ones that export track 3 data in raw format.

So, what is everyone doing with their card readers? I mean cards that are interesting (hotel keycards, etc) use non-standard encoding.

Just curious.

[Why I'm happy with Linux instead of windows sometimes]

They going for the low hanging fruit. Those that run Windows in they default mode who aren't smart enough to know better. It looks real to them so they think it must be legit. It's the same group of people who think they're 100th visitor and have won a prize. If they get a 0.1% return on the ads/malware they've got better then 0%.

[Consumer B Gone]

While this is the first time in a telephone I've seen it on instructables where they lock and entire row of carts at once.

[Fonera+ Replicate traffic on second ethernet port]

Did you do any testing with having Daemonlogger replicate traffic from WAN to LAN? When I tried the above I lost all comms to the router. So I'm thinking I could try just replicating the traffic without having to set it up in client mode and having the VPN.

[Content Control blocking websites]

Maybe you'd already proven your age to them in some way? For instance by registering a card with them for top-up purposes?

When I log in at online.vodafone.co.uk, there is a link labelled "Manage settings for call barring and content control". But when I click on it, I get the message: "Unfortunately your request cannot be processed". From reading the faq I have concluded this is because I need to prove my age by giving them a credit card number. It's definitely not due to some temporary glitch in teir web site - I've tried clicking that link many times on many different days over the past few months.

I don't know about where you live but here in NY a credit card cannot be used as the sole means as proof of age/ability to pay. It goes back to a lawsuit against Rental car agencies that required a credit card in order to rent a car. Now you have to have 2 forms of ability to pay (utility in your name, checking account, rent, etc).

I don't know if you'd be able to do something similar "on your side on the puddle".

[Cats vs. Dogs]

Yea, but pets have a lower monthly fee to keep using.

True but there's a catch once you've owned a version for 7 years instead having to get a new one it starts working for you. That is, until it's 15 and from what I've read the fees go up.

[Cats vs. Dogs]

Pets are deprecated, I have upgraded to children 2.0 instead...please install the latest version.

Careful about those upgrades. I went to get the 2.0 upgrade and ended up getting 3.0

Which comes bundles with stress 5.3 and downgrades you to cashflow 0.1 and it's incompatible with all versions of freetime.

Oh yeah we got a cat, lazy good for nothing.....

[is this possible]

It does really neat things to my tilt. The one time I tried it, it hard reset my phone.

Ooh, It seemed to work fine for me. Then again my Axim now runs WM 6.1 and has 128MB of RAM.