Wednesday night – hazy, hot and human

It was like a hot wet blanket today.. everyone and every thing reverted to slow motion.. When it gets hot and humid like this I feel like I am crawling through some sort of primordial swamp.. I make no unnecessary movements. I think at half speed…

I stayed at work until 7 just to savor the air conditioning there.. but even that was turned off at 4PM to save power.. I got out to my car to find t was still 99 degrees.   I’ve lived in other hot places.. but no place htat’s as un airconditioned as Vermont.. Here’s the weird thing… I think I’m actually enjoying the hea for the first time in my life … .. wonder why ?

Just look at the haze..

I spent the rest of my day in  a heat induced mental haze..   My one triumph happened early in the day.. before work

I’ve been messing around with computer security  lately and it’s got my old hacker genes excited again.. I did my first WEP crack on a wireless network today just for fun (Don’t worry it was my network).. I used an off brand wifi adapter that allows monitor mode hooked to my linux machine to do a packet injection attack on our wireless router. I collected about 50,000 I/V responses then used another program to decrypt those responses to decode the 128 bit WEP key

Here’s the key

Here I am doing the injection attack and capturing responses..

Et voila !.. Hre’s the decrypted key..

And proof it works !

Tomorrow I’m going to attempt a crack of a WPA protected router using a dictionary attack.. wish me luck.. or not..

Moral of this story.. if there is one…

1) hacking is fun and wholesome entertainment.  
2) don’t lull yourself into believing your home’s wireless network is safe..

OK.. all for todonight..

nite all, nite Sam
-me