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"Yo, man. My friend has been stealing wireless off of his friend for the past few months, but they firewalled that shit now!"
"OK... so he needs his own wireless router?"
"Nah, man, I need to know how he can hack that password!"
"... Well, sure! I'm sure there's a programme we could install for him! Assuming this programme doesn't have a virus or keylogger piggybacking onto it, and assuming this firewall doesn't have a shut-down for too many misses, he should have a 64 bit WEP code in about... fifteen years?"
"Oh..."
"Is that all?"
"Yo, is there an easier way?"
"..."
At this point, I decided that I'd explain to him that we can't just wave magic hacker tools; at the best case, I'd need physical access to the router in question, or a PC that accesses it. I let him know routinely that this is not something you can just *do*.
"Yo, I'm comin' over Monday, you gotta show me how to hack, dawg!"
"........."
"OK... so he needs his own wireless router?"
"Nah, man, I need to know how he can hack that password!"
"... Well, sure! I'm sure there's a programme we could install for him! Assuming this programme doesn't have a virus or keylogger piggybacking onto it, and assuming this firewall doesn't have a shut-down for too many misses, he should have a 64 bit WEP code in about... fifteen years?"
"Oh..."
"Is that all?"
"Yo, is there an easier way?"
"..."
At this point, I decided that I'd explain to him that we can't just wave magic hacker tools; at the best case, I'd need physical access to the router in question, or a PC that accesses it. I let him know routinely that this is not something you can just *do*.
"Yo, I'm comin' over Monday, you gotta show me how to hack, dawg!"
"........."
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Date: 2009-07-04 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 07:17 am (UTC)personally, I will *not* do anything questionable for the non-technical friends of mine- primarily because it may come back to haunt me and cost me my job.
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Date: 2009-07-04 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-05 11:48 am (UTC)I tested my eee-701 on a friends 128bit WEP AP and after getting enough packets, it took about 2-5 minutes with the latest aircrack :P
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Date: 2009-07-07 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 11:31 am (UTC)Yo Dawg Yo!
Date: 2009-07-04 07:36 am (UTC)Re: Yo Dawg Yo!
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-05 04:31 am (UTC)1. If he has a Theremin, you get to play with it for awhile.
2. You get to shift the conversation to talking about a Theremin instead of hacks that a first year undergrad in math could solve.
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Date: 2009-07-05 01:24 pm (UTC)