Month: December 2005

[satire]Because there is no other important things to do research on [/satire] Does My Bum Look Big?

Thanks Jess for this submission
YouTube – Jay Leno Phony Photo Booth
fun ensues at a “free photo booth”
An amusing card… americangreetings.com I’m not exactly sure if it’s amusing, or annoying…

Where’s darwin when you need him?
WRAL.com – News – Girlfriend Gets Phone Stuck In Throat During Argument
What would posses someone to be this intelligent; trying to swallow a bloody phone. Either this person has a very suppressed gag reflex… I don’t think I need to elaborate on this.

Weird… very weird – Polite Bank Robber Waits to Be Arrested
I was once in this bank…

CHILD: Dad, where did I come from?
DAD: Okay, we had to have this conversation some day!.. Listen… Dad and mom met in a chat room on the net. I set up a meeting with your mom and we landed in the bathroom at the CyberCaf?
Then, mom did some downloads from dads memory stick
and when dad was ready to upload, we discovered that there was no firewall.
Seeing that it was a bit too late to cancel, I just carried on doing the upload.
Nine months later, the damn virus appeared!
CHILD: Huh?

This article from Daily Wireless – Hacking Starbucks, is pretty interesting.
I don’t think a proof of concept is needed, as I think it is blatantly obvious. However, it does make you think for a minute or two about the possible injection of a deauth, and reassign the target via dhcp.
Another thing that I’ve been reading up on, wireless security, with WEP. I can’t understand why people even bother with wireless if they don’t secure it. Especially in areas with high traffic, like Starbucks. There’s a WEP encrypted system which is just asking for trouble.
Use a randomly generated password for WPA, here’s a good starting point random generator at Steve Gibson’s website www.grc.org
Another tidbit of fun, just as a honeypot, fake AP.