WIFI Cards... I want to play :)

DeVore

Ok, I'm getting interested in wireless security as are some of the guys in Spin. Nothing bold you understand but we want to see what we can see.

Anyone got a spare wireless card they could loan us or sell us so we can play with this?

I've also got some ideas for bandwidth sharing (legal ones!) but I dont want to go into that now.

So, can anyone hook us up?

DeV.

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Sorry to go slightly OT.....

But there was this report on sky News last night about WAN security and the potential for it to be penetrated with ease- They put this guy in a car with a laptop and an aerial hidden in a pringles tube, and drove him around "the city" in London- The results were staggering !! Very interesting actually- might be on the website.

BTW the WAN in the Smurfit School in Blackrock was hacked into and AFAIK its down atm-

Let us know how you get on because its definitly a solution for net access once certain issues are ironed out:)

Coyote

WEP has been cracked but problem is loads of people do not even turn it on. To crack WEP you need to listen to a lot of network traffic to work out the key being used, but you can do it, as WEP dose not randomly change the key it uses.
This should be fixed in 802.11e with better bandwidth and more Security (128bit keys still not enuf) but with a small range at higher bandwidth.
If you’re interested in wireless security then you might like to read this.
A paper presented at 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, describing attacks.

What he used on Sky News was a handmade Yagis Antenna made out of Pringle cans. But you can use any type but some are better at picking up the signal.
What you need is a laptop, wireless network card, a pig tail for the network card and your antenna. Then drive around and scan and see what networks pop up

If your looking for some where for some more info and where to buy a card try www.irishwan.org and www.irishwan.org/boards there is people setting up wireless networks all over Ireland (me included with some luck)

If you want more info on how to brake the WEP i can post it up,
not sure it's too good a idea to give a guide to cracking WEP on the boads

Coyote

sisob

check out http://www.sputnik.com/ and this article http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/06/2226253http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/06/2226253

yellum

To stay off topic a lot of this hype about insecurity is gladly promoted by mobile and 3G companies who consider WiFi as serious competition.

Security is weak but it can be secured if the proper security measures are taken but it appears lazy sysadmins or cowboy installers don't bother to implement this.

Its actually quite fun to drive around and find wireless networks offering you an ip address and welcoming you to the corporate lan without any verification.

Kastro

i have a wireless card n do a bit of wardriving etc.. just wondering as i have a laptop and the card has an internal antenna is there any way as to madding the card to adopt a homemade antenna, bin messing with wifi for a quite some time now n found out coz of the card i have "Belkin wireless pre-n notebook network card. model number F5D8010" becuase of its intel chipset the drive cannot be re-written or changed for programs such as airopeek etc..
i aint bothed goin n buying a new one so.. im just seeing what i can do with it..

Gone West

heh.
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