Guess who’s learning to hack………. WEP February 6, 2008
Posted by novaaesa in Linux.Tags: hacker, internet, LAN, laptop, school, WEP, wireless
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I was at my brother’s school for a parent-teacher evening last night and I happened to have my laptop with me. I was bored out of my arse, so I cracked open my lappy and was fiddling around with it. I noticed that the school had like 6 different networks all encrypted with WEP. I remembered reading somewhere that WEP was really easy to crack with Linux.
Anyway, that got me thinking about how cool it would be to be a ‘real’ hacker – being able to hack into networks. I spend about half an hour googling and finally came up with a hacking suit called aircrack-ng. I’ve been playing around with it all of today and have almost been able to hack into my own wireless LAN setup I have at home. I have a feeling I’m going to be there soon. xD
Just in case anyone is wondering, I’m only doing this for interest and academic curiosity. I have no intention of stealing anyone’s Internet.
I got a new laptop xD February 2, 2008
Posted by novaaesa in Linux, Uni.Tags: coffee brown, dell, dux, inspiron, laptop, scholarship, Uni
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Well, as the post title says, I have recently gotten a new laptop. It actually happened a about two weeks ago now but as you may have noticed I haven’t really been writing much lately here. I got it pretty much because my desktop is kinda old and I’m heading off to uni this year. I figured that a new laptop would make things easier at uni so I could take custom compilers and my own IDEs and stuff wherever I got (I’m doing software engineering). In case you are wondering, I got the money from a scholarship I won for getting dux of me school w00t!
Anyway, I’m sure you want to hear the juicy details about it so here are the specs:
It’s a Dell Inspiron 1525 with a Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz), 2GiB of RAM, Intel X3100 (Yes crappy I know but I don’t plan on doing any gaming) and a 15′ WXGA+ (1440×900) screen. Also, it has a microfibre finish which is made of metal but feels really soft. I got the finish Coffee Brown to show my support for Ubuntu. The rest of it is pretty standard with wireless, bluetooth, webcam etc. It came with Vista so that was the first thing to go. It’s now sporting a new Ubuntu Gutsy 64 bit install xD. Best thing was, it only cost me AU$1300 (with a 2 yr warranty). Computer’s can be expensive here compared to the rest of the world, so I thought it was a pretty good bargain.
Anyway, all-in-all very happy with my purchase xD
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