Hacking a commercial airport WLAN. Posted on 30/8/06 by Felix Geisendörfer Welcome lifehacker.com & hackszine.com visitors. Read this follow up post if you care about the story of this article. Update 06:20pm: My luggage just arrived - I'm happy ; ). Yesterday I left Atlanta, GA after having spent 6 weeks of my summer there to visit my host family that I was staying with the year before as a foreign exchange student. The flight back wasn't all that great, it had 4 hours of delay, I missed my connection flight, had a long waiting time at the Düsseldorf aiport and when I finally got back into Dresden my 2 big suit cases were missing - and still are. But oh well ... they'll show up, eventually. Meanwhile I want to share a little hack I did when I was waiting at the Atlanta airport. I continued to try a couple other things, like checking if they eventually forgot some ports like 21 (ftp) or 110 (pop3).
--Felix Geisendörfer aka the_undefined Update: Read this follow up post if you care about the story of this article. Top 10 Secret Agent Security Tips and Tricks. When dealing with computer security, an often overlooked security risk is so-called "deleted files". When files are deleted, nothing is actually done to them aside from marking them as "free-space". The OS may get around to overwriting them sometime when it needs the space, but a deleted file could sit on a drive completely intact for weeks of usage (the bigger it is the bigger the chance it will be at least partially overwrited).
Encryption applications that do not involve real-time decoding (a special driver decrypting files on-the-go vs an application decrypting and re-encrypting files), often do not have secure methods of wiping files (or the user is unaware of them), and hence the files are left in an unencrypted state on the drive when deleted. The only way to assure deleted files remain that way (or at least make their recovery very difficult and time-consuming) is to have an application overwrite the drives free-space with random 0s/1s, ideally multiple times.
Five Best File Encryption Tools. How to Vanish with a New Identity. Dark Side or not, it's always good to say, "Hey, folks. Don't forget, this is illegal. Do it at your own risk. LH is not responsible for any trouble you may cause/get yourself into! " First of all, Dark Side articles have a completely different vibe than almost every other article. Adam Dachis, however, is spinning it to advocate identity theft. Let me make this final point clear: I am not against these types of articles in general. Presenting both ways to protect yourself from identity theft and then ways to steal another person's identity (with a joking tone or not)? They should probably create a separate site dedicated to Dark Side posts.
Amen. Cracking WEP Using Backtrack: A Beginner’s Guide / Ryan Underdown. This tutorial is intended for user’s with little or no experience with linux or wifi. The folks over at remote-exploit have released “Backtrack” a tool which makes it ridiculously easy to access any network secured by WEP encryption. This tutorial aims to guide you through the process of using it effectively. Required Tools You will need a computer with a wireless adapter listed hereDownload Backtrack and burn it’s image to a CD BACKTRACK is a bootable live cd with a myriad of wireless and tcp/ip networking tools.
Tools Overview Kismet – a wireless network detector and packet snifferairmon – a tool that can help you set your wireless adapter into monitor mode (rfmon)airodump – a tool for capturing packets from a wireless router (otherwise known as an AP)aireplay – a tool for forging ARP requestsaircrack – a tool for decrypting WEP keysiwconfig – a tool for configuring wireless adapters. Glossary of Terms Monitoring Wireless Traffic With Kismet kismet NOTE: We use kismet for two reasons.
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For example, for a lot of people, a VPN logging exactly what time they turn the VPN on or off might not be a matter of much concern: but our unwillingness to do even that hopefully signals just how earnestly we protect the data that is generally viewed as more sensitive. Bearing in mind that it takes considerable effort to reduce logging, and even costs us a not-inconsiderate amount of money to pull off, the value of underlining our commitment to your privacy comes down to illustrating our principles as much as bolstering our marketing.
It’s proof that we mean what we say and say what we mean. BitWise IM - Encrypted Cross-Platform Instant Messaging. Guardster - Welcome to Guardster - Your Privacy Headquarters. Send Anonymous Email. How to hide emails from government snooping. By Jack Schofield, The GuardianMonday, April 2, 2012 21:38 EDT Despite coalition proposals to monitor public email, there remain numerous free or low-cost methods to keep messages private You already know how to keep messages private: you just encrypt the contents using a password. But although this kind of technology has been freely available to PC users since Phil Zimmermann launched PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) in 1991, hardly anyone uses it. The benefits of email and online messaging are that they are fast and relatively frictionless – you don’t need to address an envelope, find a stamp, walk to a post box and so on – and encryption becomes an annoyance.
The problem with the latest government attempts at snooping is that they are not concerned with the content of messages, but their existence. If you have found some suspected criminals or terrorists, then you will want to know who their friends are: the people they email or message most frequently.