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aha, playing around with 'iw list' and 'iw set reg' to set country code has got injection working on 13, and has uncovered the other 5Ghz channels. No luck injecting on the 5Ghz range yet...
I've been testing on the 5Ghz range, currently iwlist wlan0 channel only allows (EU):
Channels 1-14 (2.4Ghz)
36-48 (5.18Ghz - 5.24Ghz)
149-165 (5.745Ghz - 5.825Ghz) - These are not allowed in EU!
It should be capable of the following (http://www.alfa.com.tw/in/front/bin/...egory=105483):
5.150-5.350 (Channels 34-64)
5.470-5.850 (Channels 100-165)
These are dependent upon country but channels 48-116, 132-140 should be available to Europe and America but are not showing up with current drivers. They have some restriction to do with dynamic frequency seleciton and tranmission power control between 52-140 but I'm not sure if thats why they aren't being picked up by drivers.
In Windows 7 it detects up to channel 64. Fails to see 100,116,136 (the highest my router will go to).
aha, playing around with 'iw list' and 'iw set reg' to set country code has got injection working on 13, and has uncovered the other 5Ghz channels. No luck injecting on the 5Ghz range yet...
I would buy this card but I'm a little confused surfing the web: many people say that it dosn't work...
Does this card works in monitor e injection mode in a Virtual Machine? Or is it required many custom settings to use it?
i'm interested in the card too...right now i'm using the embedded intel 5100 in my laptop and it works quite good, but there are some routers i can't fake auth to (and no chopchop attack too). so my question is: can alfa auth-fake auth-chopchop and everything else on any router? or is there a limited compatibility for this too?
Hi, I'm new here, but I'd like to share my experiences with installing the Alfa AWUS051NH USB Stick on Backtrack 5 R2. This is a tutorial which can be used for installation of any RT2870 based USB Wifi device.
I can't open a thread in the HOWTO Forum, so I'll post it here. This is basically this tutorial: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...s-adapter.html, but I added some things (1.8) or made some changes (2.0) for better understanding or for avoiding problems.
By the way: If you are a root user on Backtrack (default), you don't have to use "sudo". (That should be clear)
Tools: I always have used gedit instead of vi for editing files. You can use what you are more familiar with.
1. driver installation:
1.1. deactivate default driver:
in file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add the lines:
Save and close the file.Code:# for deactivating default drivers of RT2870 blacklist rt2800usb blacklist rt2x00lib blacklist rt2x00usb
1.2 if you have it: remove current driver
$ sudo modprobe -r rt2800usb
OR simply reboot the systems:
$ sudo reboot
1.3 Install Compilers
Genrally good: edit the file sources in /etc/apt and add the following line
deb http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
Do a apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.
Then type the following command to install required packages so that you can compile source code:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev
Finally, install Linux kernel headers so that you can compile kernel device drivers:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
1.4. Download Driver, extract + edit:
Visit this page: http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_supp...ort.php?sn=501 and download current driver RT2870USB(RT2870/RT2770)
extract your downloaded file. (In my case: 051NH_Linux_STA_v188.8.131.52.tar.bz2)
For Linux kernel 2.6.35 and later: (e.g. Backtrack 5 R2 and newer)
Open file include/os/rt_linux.h and replace
usb_buffer_alloc with usb_alloc_coherent
usb_buffer_free with usb_free_coherent
(do NOT replace rausb_buffer_alloc or rausb_buffer_free).
(Source http://www.linuxcrew.de/blog/2010/10...10-10/?lang=en). Save.
1.5. Compile RT2870 Wireless Lan Linux Driver
First, edit config.mk file as follows so that Network Manager can be used to set WPA2 auth info:
$ vi os/linux/config.mk
Set it as follows:
Save and close the file. To compile the driver, enter:Code:# Support Wpa_Supplicant HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y # Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Manger HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
$ make
Note: You may see a LOTs of warnings during the compilation, and this is *normal* so don't panic.
1.6. Install Driver
Type the following command:
$ sudo make install
1.7 Update Network interfaces list:
edit file /etc/network/interfaces and add the following lines
1.8 Load the driver on startup:Code:auto ra0 iface ra0 inet dhcp
edit the file /ect/modules and add the following line
(1.9. Download Firmware (see http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...s-adapter.html) - not tested yet)
2. driver configuration:
You need to edit /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat file
Check out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._Configuration
For: Germany, WEP encryption, open authen., key 1 used (hex), wirelessmode=legacy 11b/g mixed:
Be careful with the Wireless Mode!Code:#The word of "Default" must not be removed Default CountryRegion=1 CountryRegionABand=1 CountryCode=DE ChannelGeography=1 SSID=ENTERROUTERSSIDHERE NetworkType=Infra WirelessMode=0 Channel=ENTERCHANNELNUMBERHERE BeaconPeriod=100 TxPower=100 BGProtection=0 TxPreamble=0 RTSThreshold=2347 FragThreshold=2346 TxBurst=0 PktAggregate=0 WmmCapable=1 AckPolicy=0;0;0;0 AuthMode=OPEN EncrypType=WEP WPAPSK= DefaultKeyID=1 Key1Type=0 Key1Str=ENTERYOURKEYHERE Key2Type=0 Key2Str= Key3Type=0 Key3Str= Key4Type=0 Key4Str= PSMode=CAM AutoRoaming=0 RoamThreshold=70 APSDCapable=0 APSDAC=0;0;0;0 HT_RDG=1 HT_EXTCHA=0 HT_OpMode=0 HT_MpduDensity=4 HT_BW=1 HT_BADecline=0 HT_AutoBA=1 HT_AMSDU=0 HT_BAWinSize=64 HT_GI=1 HT_MCS=33 HT_MIMOPSMode=3 HT_DisallowTKIP=0 IEEE80211H=0 TGnWifiTest=0 WirelessEvent=0 CarrierDetect=0 AntDiversity=0 BeaconLostTime=4
WirelessMode=10 (802.11a,g,n) can't connect to 802.11b,g Routers. So use WirelessMode=0 (802.11b,g) then instead.
By setting the correct WirelessMode, you will avoid the following annoying problem later when connecting with dhclient:
3. Reboot system to load the driver.Code:root@bt:~# dhclient ra0 There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 3491 killed old client process, removed PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/ra0/ROUTERBSSID Sending on LPF/ra0/ROUTERSSID Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.6 on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.6 on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 No DHCPOFFERS received. Trying recorded lease 192.168.0.6 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
4. Connecting to a network
4.1 (You connecting with the wict network manager. It doesn't work for me.) If wict can't connect, do the following instead:
5. Enjoy.Code:ifconfig ra0 down ifconfig ra0 up iwconfig ra0 essid "YOURROUTER ESSID" key YOURKEYHERE enc on dhclient ra0
I don't know if its necessary to know: I use BT not in a VM. I run it on a notebook which (of course) has another WLAN chip that runs as wlan0.
Hi, just thought I share my experience with Blueway BT-N9200 9dBi High-Gain B/G/N Wireless USB Adapter which has got exactly the same chip as in ALFAAWUS036NH card. It seems to work very well with my BT5 R2 64bit Gnome. I am using Backtrack from my HDD and not Virtual Machine. Please see the output as I run through air-crack-ng command suites.
Note my USB card is wlan1
Note the Tx-Power=30 dBmCode:root@bt:~# uname -a Linux bt 3.2.6 #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 10:34:20 EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@bt:~# lsusb ------snip--------- Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter ------snip--------- root@bt:~# ifconfig ----snip----- wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:a3:10:97:e2 inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:a3ff:fe10:97e2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:543301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:280946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:764439964 (764.4 MB) TX bytes:26757486 (26.7 MB) root@bt:~# ifconfig wlan1 down root@bt:~# iw reg set BO root@bt:~# iwconfig wlan1 txpower 30 root@bt:~# ifconfig wlan1 up root@bt:~# iwconfig wlan1 wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=30 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on
Note that I am using the standard driver with Backtrack (rt2800usb).Code:root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan1 Found 3 processes that could cause trouble. If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them! PID Name 2379 dhclient3 2599 dhclient3 5229 dhclient Process with PID 2599 (dhclient3) is running on interface wlan0 Interface Chipset Driver wlan1 Ralink RT2870/3070 rt2800usb - [phy2] (monitor mode enabled on mon0) wlan0 Atheros AR9285 ath9k - [phy0]
Now let's run some aircrack-ng suite tools.
Now injection test. This is where I have seen failure though injection does work.Code:root@bt:~# airodump-ng mon0 CH 3 ][ Elapsed: 20 s ][ 2012-06-08 10:57 BSSID PWR Beacons #Data, #/s CH MB ENC CIPHER AUTH ESSID 1A:52:4A:DA:52:5A -1 12 0 0 11 54 WEP WEP rosenburg 00:26:44:29:37:4D -1 0 68 2 158 -1 WPA <length: 0> 72:1D:67:A1:F3:9C -51 22 3 0 11 54e WPA TKIP PSK labrynth 6A:C7:14:14:7F:0C -52 15 0 0 9 54e WPA TKIP PSK simon 00:21:29:0C:65:A8 -68 25 0 0 6 54 . WPA2 CCMP PSK <length: 0> 00:24:D2:90:EE:70 -62 14 0 0 6 54 WPA TKIP PSK My Wireless Router E0:CA:94:97:B5:45 -66 14 0 0 6 54e WPA TKIP PSK WirelessHome 00:17:9A:12:4B:86 -68 8 0 0 6 54 . WPA TKIP PSK DLINK_WIRELESS 00:24:17:97:57:D3 -72 14 0 0 1 54 WPA2 CCMP PSK hiya C0:83:0A:4F:A1:59 -76 13 0 0 13 54 . WPA TKIP PSK random 72:C0:6F:6A:52:74 -77 8 0 0 3 54e WPA TKIP PSK penrith BSSID STATION PWR Rate Lost Frames Probe 1A:52:4A:DA:52:5A 00:00:48:DD:EE:AD -72 0 - 1 39 12 00:26:44:29:37:4D 68:A3:C4:BF:B8:70 -56 0 -24 259 84 (not associated) 00:11:D9:24:67:DE -60 0 - 1 0 7 alaska 72:1D:67:A1:F3:9C 78:A3:E4:E9:FD:41 -64 2e-18 0 10 6A:C7:14:14:7F:0C CC:08:E0:1D:9B:B7 -127 0 -36 0 5 simon 72:1D:67:A1:F3:9C 78:A3:E4:E9:FD:41 -66 2e-18 0 4 E0:CA:94:97:B5:45 70:DE:E2:CA:1F:D1 -1 1e- 0 0 1
So the question I am asking why do we need to use another driver? What is the benefit please?Code:root@bt:~# aireplay-ng -9 mon0 11:01:19 Trying broadcast probe requests... 11:01:21 No Answer... 11:01:21 Found 2 APs 11:01:21 Trying directed probe requests... 11:01:21 72:C0:6F:6A:52:74 - channel: 3 - 'penrith' 11:01:27 0/30: 0% 11:01:27 00:21:29:0C:65:A8 - channel: 6 - '' 11:01:28 Ping (min/avg/max): 2.650ms/8.545ms/29.472ms Power: -89.30 11:01:28 30/30: 100% 11:01:28 Injection is working!
Hey im using backtrack for a while now and i just bought the alfa AWUS051NH, I run backtrack trough parallels on my mac (that why i bought the alfa AWUS051NH it also works on the newer versions of mac) so i tried to just plug it in and it didnt work! I already tried allot also the tutorial a few post above, so my question is: is it possible to get it working trough parallels or is an other virtual machine better.(also parallels keeps crashing forcing me to restart my whole computer, with al kind of crazy annoying failures) So i prefer another virtualbox but wich will detect the usb? parallels does detect my mouse and an other wireless i own. so why not this one?
thanks for your time and effort,


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Prize law is that part of international admiralty law concerning the capture of enemy property at sea during war. Prize courts determine the legality of the capture and the disposition of the ship and its cargo as lawful prizes, usually distributed as shares to the captors. In 1794, the Supreme Court determined that all the powers of a court of admiralty, "both instance and prize," rested in the district courts. In 1812, there were 13 judicial districts, which had been established by the Judiciary Act of 1789.
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Images in each file may include court opinions, private and official correspondence, bills of sale for prize property, and letters of marque from President James Madison. Also included are British letters of marque, orders to sail, port of clearances, ship manifests, bills of lading, receipts, correspondence, indentures, bills of health, British licenses, logs, and other papers.
Letters of Marque
Rather than an original letter of marque, usually an endorsed copy is found in the file. However, in the files of John Cazeaux (Expedition) v. Adeline a blank Letter of Marque form is found for letters issued by the Port of Baltimore. (Image 1)
Manifests and Freight Lists
Image 2 is one of several freight lists of the ship Susannah captured by the USS Constitution on 16 February 1815, after the close of the war.
Court Papers
The USS United States, under the command of Captain Stephen Decatur, captured the British frigate HMS Macedonian on 25 October 1812. It was the first salvageable British frigate to surrender to an American in the War of 1812. When the ship was brought to the port of New York, it was taken into the custody of the court on 03 November 1812 in order that all parties concerned could prepare for a court that would convene on 20 January 1813. (Image 3)
On 20 January 1813, Captain Stephen Decatur and members of the crew of the USS United States, and the prize crew of the captured HMS Macedonian, appeared in court to present their cases. (Image 4)
The court relied on referees appointed to represent the Navy Department (in this case Jacob Lewis) and to represent the captors (in this case John Bullus) in order to affix the value of the prize. Using general naval calculations, the HMS Macedonian was determined to be of equal force to the frigate United States and was valued by the referees at $200,000. (Image 5)
Findings of the Court
The court found that the HMS Macedonian was a good and lawful prize, and ordered that the captain and crew of the USS United States be paid $200,000, the value of the vessel as determined by the court, at the time the ship was turned over by the court to the United States. (Image 6)
The HMS Macedonian was immediately brought into the US Naval service as the USS Macedonian. The USS Macedonian was decommissioned in 1828. A new USS Macedonian, built to almost the same specifications and rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian was placed in service in 1836. She was sold at auction in 1871 to Wiggin and Robinson. Eventually, she became the City Island Casino in the Bronx and burned to the ground on 9 June 1922. Today, the Alexander the Great figurehead and four of the 18-pounders from the original HMS Macedonian are on the grounds of the US Naval Academy.
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Monday mornings are not as toxic to me as to others, to hear them tell it. In fact, I have a healthy indifference to Mondays; on a work-week landscape where my first day of the work week at the newspaper is a Thursday, Mondays essentially are my "Fridays." All of which is to say, that's not so bad.
Still, coffee would be nice, and while sipping a Kona blend, we can review some of the recent past's events and articles, like . . .
It's dead, Jim . . . finally: Novell came up the winner in the SCO case, according to Groklaw, and it looks like this is the end of the line for a one-time tech company turned litigation machine. Judge Ted Stewart ruled that Novell's claim for declaratory judgment is granted; SCO's claims for specific performance and breach of the implied covenant of good fair and fair dealings are denied. Denied. Did I mention it was denied? Also SCO's motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial: denied. Deeee-nyed! So that's game, set, match. Also, on a personal note, as a MoFo — as in a Morrison & Foerster alum, having worked for the firm in Tokyo — I have to say I'm proud of their work in this case.
Well, duh! Chapter One: Dell, which offers Ubuntu (if you want to wait for it — more on this in a minute), gives those thinking about ordering an Ubuntu machine some reasons for making the switch. While those ordering Ubuntu Dells wait — ask me about ordering one for a client and getting a shipment date in about a month, versus a few days for an identical Windows machine — they can take a look at Number 6 on this list: Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows. You think? Sheesh.
Well, duh! Part Deux: What's the weak link in the national security in relation to cyber war? Easy question, according to a recent ars technica article: Microsoft Windows. Richard A. Clarke's new book, "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It," is still making quite a splash. A quote from the article: "While it may appear to give America some sort of advantage," Cyber War warns, "in fact cyber war places this country at greater jeopardy than it does any other nation." The enormous dependence of our financial and energy networks on the 'Net open us up to potentially devastating online attacks. "It is the public, the civilian population of the United States and the publicly owned corporations that run our key national systems, that are likely to suffer in a cyber war." Yep, that sounds like Microsoft Windows all right.
What's that? The sky is falling? It figures that the likes of PC World would take a story involving a relatively obscure IRC server, give said IRC server undue credit for popularity, exaggerate the seriousness of the situation and exaggerate how long it went unnoticed all in one article. But that's what happened when — HORRORS! — an announcement was made on the Unreal IRCd forum that the Linux version of the popular IRC server Unreal IRCd was contaminated with malware in November 2009, without anyone noticing it. Of course, what the article conveniently fails to mention is that unlike the infections automatically started by the mere presence of Windows, this one had to be downloaded, installed, and configured. That point was glossed over. Another glaring omission: How many in the wild security breaches have there been due to this? I'm not linking to the article — PC World is not getting hits from me — but you can go to LXer and see the article, with responses, if you wish.
I need a refill.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
June 15, 2010 at 7:46 pm
OK, from the top: The Colonel has nothing but weekends. And coffee.
I roast my own here and will ship a batch to LtFSG if he provides an address.
SCO? Beware the zombie apocalypse.
Dell and Linux or maybe Linux as Dell sees it? Been there, will never go back. I am sure so many people were turned off by Dells broken Linux offerings that we have a long fight to win them back.
The next one? It is just like chocolate covered cockroaches, I don't and you shouldn't either.
Tech writers? Digital Pundits? May the fleas of a thousand, nay, a million
camels live in their nostrils. If you cannot do, teach, if you cannot teach, become a tech writer.
Serious about that coffee Larry, you just have to tell me where to point
that little brown truck.
June 15, 2010 at 7:51 pm
TYPO, Larry the Free Editor Guy, please fix that last line:
Serious about that coffee Larry, you just have to tell be where to point
that little brown truck.
It should be: Serious about that coffee Larry, you just have to tell ME where to point that little brown truck.
I only do that when my editor is watching.


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Wilcox Named Second-Team All-Pac-12, NWG Earns All-Freshman Team Honors
SEATTLE – University of Washington senior standout C.J. Wilcox and freshman Nigel Williams-Goss picked up Pac-12 Conference regular season honors as voted on by the league's coaches, commissioner Larry Scott announced on Monday. Wilcox was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team for the second-straight year and Williams-Goss was one of five newcomers named to the All-Pac-12 Freshman Team.
Wilcox, who was second-team in 2013, honorable mention in 2012 and a member of the 2011 All-Freshman team, led the Huskies in scoring, minutes played, 3-pointers made and blocks. During the season he set the UW career record for 3-point FGs and is currently at 299, which ranks sixth in Pac-12 history. Additionally he moved into second all-time at UW in scoring with 1,866 career points.
His 18.5 points per game ranked fourth in the Pac-12 and he led the league in 3-point FGs made with 2.8 per game (88 total). Additionally, he was second in FT percentage (86.8) and fourth in minutes played (34.9). Wilcox is also one of just three players in Pac-12 history to post 1,800 points, 275 made 3FGs and 400 career rebounds.
Williams-Goss becomes the 10th freshman under head coach Lorenzo Romar to earn All-Freshman team honors. The newcomer out of Findlay Prep High School led the league's freshmen in scoring with his 13.3 points per game and was the top frosh in assists (4.4) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.6). Williams-Goss set the UW single-season assists record with 137 and led the league with 14 double-digit scoring efforts during conference play.
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The suspect - Adolph Guadalupe Mireles, 38, of Huntington Beach - is considered armed and dangerous, Costa Mesa police Lt. Tim Schennum said.
Mireles is accused of fatally stabbing 43-year-old Robert Jay Liken of Long Beach just before 6 a.m. Tuesday in a home in the 1100 block of Atlanta Way. The victim died at the scene of several stab wounds to the upper chest.
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(NEWSER) – What has a former Navy SEAL calling Edward Snowden "very naive"? This fairly wild statement, plucked by Business Insider from a letter Snowden wrote to a US senator that was published by the Guardian:
- No intelligence service—not even our own—has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (ie, China). You may rest easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture.
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A 23-year-old drinker stabbed by a gang of masked men who stormed into a 'quiet' pub has been released from hospital.
Up to 12 men armed with machetes and bats launched a "targeted" assault on the victim in the Victoria Hotel in Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe, at 8.30pm on Saturday.
The man was stabbed several times before the group ran off just 30 seconds later. The victim suffered several deep lacerations, requiring urgent hospital treatment.
Police say he has now been discharged and is recovering at home.
A worker at the pub, who did not wish to be named, said the man had been in before but was not a "regular".
The pub's landlady said: "It all happened so fast and we are still very shaken up.
"The attack was during a quiet lull so it was hard to know what happened."
Regulars at the pub say the attack was "in no way" a reflection on the pub.
A drinker, who did not wish to be named, added: "It is business as usual here – like nothing has happened. The community has rallied around the pub. I come in occasionally and there has never been any trouble before."
Witnesses can call police them on 0161 8568222 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


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stdin = Standard Input (the information you give to a program while it's running). By default, this is connected to your keyboard.
stdout = Standard Output (the information you get from a program while it's running). By default, this is connected to the terminal you're using on-screen.
Typically, there's two ways of supplying a program with input. The first one is stdin. Here's an example of how stdin would be used by a program:
There's one other way though of giving info to a program, and that's by giving it command Line arguments whereby you specify extra stuff at the command line before the program actually starts to run, an example would be:Code:Please enter your username: (you type your username here and it goes into stdin) Please enter your password: (again it goes into stdin)
In this example, the program name is "iwconfig" and the command line arguments are "wlan0 essid MyNet key off".Code:iwconfig wlan0 essid MyNet key off
Just to be clear from the very beginning: The arguments you supply at the command line do not go to stdin. stdin is a different thing altogether. stdin gets the input you give to a program after it has started running, for instance if the program asks you for your username and password, then the stuff you type in goes into stdin.
So if you're writing your own program that needs to take input from the user, you've got two options: Command line arguments or stdin. Of course you can do some fancy like write a GUI program, but we're gonna stick to the basics here.
Now on to output. You can write output to stdout, and by default it gets printed on the screen. In my original example above, the text "Please enter your username: " would get printed to the screen by sending the text to stdout.
Before I being with the following example, I have to be honest and say I've never had much of an interest in making big dictionary files for doing password cracking, but I do find it fun to write the programs that make the dictionary files (I think there's a diagnosis of Aspergers in there somewhere ).
Moving on...
The great thing about the Linux terminal is you can redirect stdin and stdout. The output of one program can become the input for another program.
For this example, I'm going to write two different programs to do with creating dictionary files. First of all though, I wanna start off with a small dictionary file as follows, here's "in.txt":
If we want this file to become the input to a program called "appnum", then we do the following at the terminal:Code:cat dog frog
This is referred to as "piping", we say that we're piping the output of the cat command into the appnum command (as if the text is going through a pipe between the two programs).Code:cat in.txt | ./appnum
So now let's write a very small C program called "Append Numbers", its purpose is to append the numbers 0 through 9999 to every line of text it gets from stdin. This program does not take any command line arguments, and you know this because the "main" function has "void" as its parameter list. (If you want to take command line arguments you need to write the main function signature as follows:
int main(int argc, char **argv)).
So here's appnum.c:
You can copy this code into a file called "appnum.c", and then compile it as follows:Code:#include <stdint.h> /* For types such as uint_fas8_t */ #include <stdio.h> /* printf */ #include <string.h> /* strlen */ void PrintCombos(char const *const str) { uint_fast16_t i = 0; for (i = 0; i != 10000u; ++i) { printf("%s%u\n",str,i); } } int main(void) { char line[62]; /* 59 for password from file 4 for the numbers we're gonna append, 1 for new line character, 1 for null terminator */ while ( fgets(line,sizeof line,stdin) ) { uint_fast8_t const index_of_final_char = strlen(line) - 1; /* If there's a new line at the end of the password, get rid of it */ if (line[index_of_final_char] == '\n') { line[index_of_final_char] = '\0'; } PrintCombos(line); } return 0; }
You gotta remember, this program doesn't take any command line arguments, so you need to give it information via stdin after the program has started running. A handy way of supplying it with one line of text at the command line is as follows:Code:gcc appnum.c -D NDEBUG -O3 -s -o appnum
Or you can shove a dictionary file into it as follows:Code:echo iliketowatch | ./appnum
As you can see if you run this, the output gets printed to the screen (because stdout gets sent to the screen by default). If you want it to go to a file instead, then do:Code:cat in.txt | ./appnum
This is another form of piping, we use ">" to take the output of a program and create a text file from it.Code:cat in.txt | ./appnum > out.txt
You can use the Kate text viewer to check how the output file looks:
Code:kate out.txt &
To read more, scroll down to post #3 in this thread, I had to split it up coz I was having problems with posting.
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But the fun doesn't stop there. You can string a load of different programs together.
Here's a slightly more complicated C program, its purpose is to get all the uppercase and lowercase combinations of every line of text it gets from stdin. Again, this program does not take any command line arguments, instead it reads from stdin. You can copy the following text into "updown.c":
Compile as follows:Code:For some unknown reason I can't post the code here, I'm getting a webserver error when I try to post the code. Anyway you can see the source code here: http://virjacode.com/uplow.txt
You can try it out with one word as follows:Code:gcc updown.c -D NDEBUG -O3 -s -o updown
Or give it a dictionary file as follows:Code:echo dog | ./updown
The real fun comes though when you string a load of programs together, such as the following:Code:cat in.txt | ./updown
The great thing about this is that you don't need to create a ginormous dictionary file on your hard disk. You can take the final output and pipe it into your favourite brute force program:Code:cat in.txt | ./updown | ./appnum
stdin and stdout are the best thing since sliced breadCode:cat in.txt | ./updown | ./appnum | cowpatty -d - -r wpa-01.cap -s NETGEAR
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I do something similar for my targeted brute force attacks. For example if I want to run John the Ripper's incremental mode which uses markov models, but add a little logic I just use
Using this John the Ripper outputs a markov model generated alpha string, and my script takes it, capitalizes the first letter and adds one special character followed by one digit to the end. Aka it makes guesses like "Myguess!2". I then pipe the guesses back into John the Ripper to actually try and crack the password. You have to use the -session option on one of the JtR instances otherwise they both try to write to the same crash protection file.Code:./john -incremental=Alpha -session=i_alpha -stdout | ./middleChild -cap first -append s1d1 | ./john -stdin -format=raw-MD5 ./targethashes.txt


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I've got the same error with the ALU MacbookPRO.
Hey there.
Today I wanted to Install/Boot Backtrack3 on my MacBook.
After the Boot Screen the Error "BT3 Data Not Found" appeared.
The problem is probably the SATA Drive. But I don't have a clue how to fix this problem.
I've got the same error with the ALU MacbookPRO.
Today I tested wifislax.
Same Problem.
But a Ubuntu Live CD worked without a problem.
It seems that there's a problem wit Slax/Slackware.
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
i HAD the same problem when i tried to install it on my own (no tut). I found that the boot process was looking in the wrong drive for the data needed. I had it on my HDD but it was looking in my CD-RW drive. What tut did you follow on your installation?? I have BT3 on my Toshiba T2080 which has a SATA HDD so that is not the problem. However i don't know anything about the MacBook or anything from Apple for that matter.


text: The OJ case took about a year to come to trial, didn't it? (ETA: I was wrong, it started earlier than I remembered) The case here is high profile and considering how things have gone so far, I am sure the police and prosecutors will want to make sure that the investigation is done right (or at least looks to have been done right). Re famous murder/kidnapping cases - The Black Dahlia was a notorious Hollywood murder with a brunette victim, but that was a long time ago. Lacy Peterson was a brunette, and IIRC Jessica Lunsford was not a blonde. Those are the ones I can recall, and it feels kind of ghoulish to go looking for others. But I agree that certain crime victims seem to be much more interesting to the media than others.


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Have you ever had a hard time opening a nut?  Maybe you can learn a thing or two from these guys!
I'm Lucie McNeil and this is National Geographic On Assignment—your link you to thousands of Nat Geo Explorers around the globe.
Today, we're off to the Brazilian Cerrado, Where bearded capuchin monkeys use large stones to crack open palm nuts.
National Geographic's Dorothy Fragaszy has been trying to figure out how these monkeys do this.
Capuchins are the only monkeys that use stones to open nuts and it's a finely honed skill.
SOUNDBITE: Dorothy Fragaszy: It takes young monkeys years to be proficient at cracking nuts, they have to be between 3 to 5 years old before they're any good at all.
Among adults, there's a lot of competition to find the best stone for hammering...as well as the best place to set the nut.
Since other food sources are plentiful in the forest, these palm nuts must be quite a treat for the capuchins ... one worthy of all the effort.
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If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
As some people have said above, I've now been paid. It's been a bit of a saga but I've received payment.
I just wanted to say something, and I'm banned from the Irish board (muahahaha) so I'll have to say it here- It's not about the money not being paid. It's about dishonesty, disrespect, and a lack of trust.
I own Kyuzo Gym in Ireland, but that's not my job really. I'm actually self employed, a freelance Strength and Conditioning coach, and I'm well used to issuing invoices and getting the run around before getting paid. Cash flow, in this economy, is always an issue with businesses, so when you issue an invoice you always have to chase it up to make sure you're the first on the guy's list when he gets the chequebook out. This is especially important with small businessmen and sole traders. I've even been down the road of liquidating a company that experienced those same problems. It's not easy but you try to do right by people. That's not just your moral responsibility, that's the law. So I have some sympathy for guys who have over-stretched their business. I've been in the position of not answering the phone in case it was a creditor. It's tough, but you either end up coming clean or you sort something out.
Now where it's different is that this time out, I was given a cheque that bounced and told it was some foreign exchange cheque issue (ie. the type of cheque was a problem). I rang my bank and they said the cheque was pretty standard and it bounced for lack of funds, then told the money was transferred, then I find out no one else has been paid (and was publicly outed by Chris) which kind of got me a bit pissed. I mean, if John had called me, explained the cash flow issues, and said he'll look after me when it comes in, I would have probably have worked with him towards a resolution. Instead he bullshits me. That's a guy I've worked with and always been professional with for 3 years. Then I hear he's made a large equipment purchase in the past few weeks through one of my suppliers. So what this means, if true, is that me, Chris Stringer, Dave Jones, Joe Clifford, John Redmond and everyone else owed cash money from the last show in the NBA have acted as his interest free bank. That's what it amounts to. That's not "financial mismanagement", or a "cash flow issue", if that money was handed over between the show and this controversy, then the cash flowed, it just flowed somewhere else while the little people waited. That would at best be bad business practice, and at worst, trading irresponsibly.
Now let me state this for the record. I don't have a personal issue with John Ferguson or Cage Contender. Our relationship has always been cordial and professional, and I've enjoyed the work on the TV show. I also don't have a problem with people who are just in MMA for the money. You don't love the sport? Fine. But be a good businessman, trade responsibly and ethically, and I'll work with you. I'm also in a position that 250 (that was what I was owed) is not going to make or break my finances, however knowing this economy and the hurt that's going around, I understand that there are guys who will have had palpitations when a cheque bounced, or will have been desperate for the transfer to arrive so they could cover bills.
I actually think our expectations are pretty low when it comes to promoters. I think we actually in some way expect to be fucked over at least once. Cheque doesn't arrive when promised, or we get less than we were told, or you ask to see accounts and they don't exist, or you have to run around a building after a guy or go hammering on his door? Forget it Jake it's Chinatown. No one is immune from screwing up once in a while, but at least there used to be trust. Now the money chasers are around the sport like flies around shit, and we may now have to start using ESCROW or some other means to make sure promoters do as they promise. I mean, in Ireland at least, this is pretty small time. You have a field of maybe 50 or 60 pro fighters supplying every show, most shows have between 200 and 400 people attending, and some get better numbers. No one can afford to play Don King here. There's no Golden Boy going to spring out of Ireland. Promoting shows is going to have to be part-time affair, or you're going to have to accept you're going to have a decent payout once per quarter.
I've nothing to say for other people and I don't care what others do. I speak for myself. You bullshit me, tell me fairy stories about phantom cheques and mystery bank transfers, then you burn your bridges. I'm not working for you again whether you're a corner shop or Microsoft, and if people ask, I'll tell them the truth.
I said I was done with this issue, that I wouldn't speak about it again, but last night I read an article in which John (without being quoted or going on the record) intimated that it was basically a hatchet job by other promotions to get him out of the game. I've no doubt that some promotions benefit from this, and I do think some of them may have a direct and aggressive agenda to get CC out of the promotions game in Ireland, but this isn't about them, and they aren't responsible for this.
I'm done with this now hopefully, but I suspect this won't be the last post on the issue. I'm sure there'll be guys in Ireland running over it with a fine tooth comb looking between the lines but this is all it is.
Hard to argue with that
Andy Lillis, Former Cagewarriors President
Good post Barry.
That post by barry.oglesby is probably the most sensible post I have ever read on here!
he said sensible, not cynical
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
I think the technical phrase for some of what Barry referred to is the practice of 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'. This is particularly bad when the thief in question is actually Paul!
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I will keep an eye out Rob T!
At last! The word sensible and my name in a sentence. Wait til I show my mam.


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