{"id":473,"date":"2010-07-08T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/07\/08\/wednesday-night-hazy-hot-and-human\/"},"modified":"2010-07-08T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T05:04:00","slug":"wednesday-night-hazy-hot-and-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/07\/08\/wednesday-night-hazy-hot-and-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; hazy, hot and human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_536836991\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"left\">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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve lived in other hot places.. but no place htat&#8217;s as un airconditioned as Vermont.. Here&#8217;s the weird thing&#8230; I think I&#8217;m actually enjoying the hea for the first time in my life &#8230; .. wonder why ? <\/p>\n<p>Just look at the haze.. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul0710\/jul0710007.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I spent the rest of my day in\u00a0 a heat induced mental haze..\u00a0\u00a0 My one triumph happened early in the day.. before work<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been messing around with computer security\u00a0 lately and it&#8217;s got my old hacker genes excited again.. I did my first WEP crack on a wireless network today just for fun (Don&#8217;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<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the key<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul0710\/jul0710003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Here I am doing the injection attack and capturing responses.. <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul0710\/jul0710004.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Et voila !.. Hre&#8217;s the decrypted key.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul0710\/jul0710002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">And proof it works !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul0710\/jul0710005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Tomorrow I&#8217;m going to attempt a crack of a WPA protected router using a dictionary attack.. wish me luck.. or not..<\/div>\n<p><\/center>Moral of this story.. if there is one&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>1) hacking is fun and wholesome entertainment.\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>2) don&#8217;t lull yourself into believing your home&#8217;s wireless network is safe.. <\/p>\n<p>OK.. all for todonight.. <\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite Sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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