I think this is still covered on the CEH exam. Or at least mentioned along with war dialing, wardiving, etc.
Can't think why, given that it was little more than a short lived LARP.
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#12Related: are there wifi password cracking apps for iOS and Android?
There are couple of local terminal emulators in the App Store. I'm sure if you could source the binary you could run one of the linux tools. You could probably even build it from source if that's your jam.
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#13The reference to WEP makes this sound pretty dated. Has anybody encountered these in the wild?
(I went to a restaurant recently that had its WiFi profile on a QR code, which I found very convenient.)
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#15Related: are there wifi password cracking apps for iOS and Android?
There are couple of local terminal emulators in the App Store. I'm sure if you could source the binary you could run one of the linux tools. You could probably even build it from source if that's your jam.
didn't know about this, installing a-shell now. thanks!
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#16I think this is still covered on the CEH exam. Or at least mentioned along with war dialing, wardiving, etc.
Yeah it was when I was going through a university class based on CEH about ten years ago. It includes war chalking and a bunch of other questionable subjects (BlackBerry Bluetooth stack attacks?). The whole experience left me feeling the certification is a waste of time unless an employer is asking for it (I'm on the swe side so certs are not applicable to me thankfully).
When I looked into war chalking and how it's discussed, I found that most of the news at the time was based on an FBI notice to businesses, which was picked up by the media as the ridiculous story it was. I honestly doubt it actually happened, beyond the two or three Usenet posters that inspired the notice.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
wigle.net is really handy for finding open wifi networks when you want to work outside or use the internet without a data plan.
Agreed, although they seem on a mission to eliminate open wifi networks; the homepage has a prominent graph celebrating the growth over time of secured APs.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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#19This isn’t something anyone used, it was a meme.
See, in 2005 John Hodgeman (PC in the old Mac vs. PC Apple ads) published “The Areas of My Expertise” [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Areas_of_My_Expertise#Th...], including a description of hobo signs and 700 hobo names. Hodgeman was on The Daily Show and the hobo thing took off for a few minutes.
I went to one of Hodgeman’s signings during that book tour. Jonathan Coulton was there during his his “Thing a Week” project and traditional Hot Fries and brandy (or bourbon?) were served. I bought a copy of the book and some hobo chalk for my brother.
We were talking when Hodgeman went to sign my copy of the book. He asked my name and started to write “To Mike”.. I blurted out “No! It’s for my brother!” He looked up at me and let out a sigh before looking down and continuing without pause: “To Mike — If you wish you may give this to ”. Always wondered if he had that one chambered or if he came up with it on the spot. Either way, brilliant, and, 100% in character given the tone of the book.
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#20Wardriving is something necessary when you are too broke in America and every McBurgerHut has wifi. I wish I came across warchalks too. That would've been a great help
In Europe it's way cheaper to buy mobile data than paying for fuel to drive to an open access point...
Don't forget: we have those crappy UPC routers everywhere. In every street, at least 5-10 are still upcgen affected and 1-3 usually never change the default passwords.
It gets worse once you dig deeper and find out how T-Online, vodafone and o2 hotspots work.
[1] for the curious: https://github.com/yolosec/upcgen