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  • #46
    Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
    That seriously depends on the size and complexity network they are administrating and the number of people they are managing. Most programmers are pretty low on the totem pole.
    Programmers, yes they are.

    I haven't been a programmer since I was a student, though.
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    • #47
      What I said is that it does not work on wireless interfaces promiscuously. As in it can only detect traffic that is not to/from your machine on wired networks, and then, only from machines on the same network segment. On wireless networks you are limited to outgoing and incoming packets.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
        What I said is that it does not work on wireless interfaces promiscuously. As in it can only detect traffic that is not to/from your machine on wired networks, and then, only from machines on the same network segment. On wireless networks you are limited to outgoing and incoming packets.
        Also something that needs to be considered. Even if you can promiscuously snoop on the network, you're not necessarily in range of every device. You might be in range of the WAP but not the lights or the thermostat or home alarm or whatever, so even if they are silly enough to run on the wireless network (which is RIDICULOUS for something like a home alarm--a burglar could basically disable it with an old cordless phone), then there's still no guarantee you can snoop on those devices.
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        • #49
          Originally posted by Asher View Post
          Programmers, yes they are.

          I haven't been a programmer since I was a student, though.
          But you still need to know how to program. Someone who is in charge of net crap for a big business would be well advised to understand networks, even if he is not in charge of actually reconfiguring Cisco switches.
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          • #50
            Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
            But you still need to know how to program. Someone who is in charge of net crap for a big business would be well advised to understand networks, even if he is not in charge of actually reconfiguring Cisco switches.
            No ****?
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            • #51
              You implied that people who need to know about that stuff are all low-paid community college grads?
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              • #52
                Don't let him get away with thinking that wireshark can sniff other people's wireless traffic.

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                • #53
                  How much gay porn did you drop on his computer Asher? I'm curious as to why Asher targetted this guy and spent two hours of his day.
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                  • #54
                    My passwords are all based on Dance Dance Revolution performed on a telephone keypad.

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                    • #55
                      Was it a mixed case dictionary word with letters replaced with symbols/numbers, like P@ssw0rd?
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                      • #56
                        I'm assuming you mean when you setup the network and type in a word, password, or whatever, then the router converts it to numbers, which becomes your actual password?

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                        • #57
                          My passwords have traditionally been a random set of numbers, letters (Various cases), and symbols.

                          I recognize that it would be better to switch to a long phrase with a few numbers/letters/symbols thrown in.

                          Maybe it is time to change.

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                          • #58
                            My passwords are mostly combinations of space-separated ordinary words with a trail of numbers and symbols to satisfy password policies. When that's too long I use 8-16 character randomly generated strings. I wrote up a script a while ago to pull values out of /dev/random, and then mod them into the printable ASCII space.

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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Asher View Post
                              How this geek spent today during his vacation: Seeing if I could crack my neighbour's WPA2 wireless password and gain access to his network. Very educational - I learned all about 802.1x, EAPOL, etc. It was surprisingly easy with all of the free tools out there now. Knowing what I know now, I could probably crack 50% of people's WPA2 passwords in an hour or so (using some premium cloud compute services, though). The scariest part is - my neighbour had a really good password. Mixed case, 12 chars long, letters & numbers. He's also a senior systems administrator for a very large web-based company, so he knew his security stuff in general.

                              The problem was it still was based on a dictionary word.

                              If you care about your wireless security (and you should!), make sure you are using WPA2 (not WEP, which can be cracked in under a minute with the click of a button) and ensure that it's not based on dictionary words. It's only going to get easier to crack as computers become more powerful.
                              Thanks for the heads up. I went and looked up information on WPA2 because Neal and I have a wi-fi connection. In looking up information about WPA2, I also came across information on disabling SSID broadcasting to make our wi-fi more secure.
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                              • #60
                                Disabling SSID broadcast makes your wifi exactly 0% more secure.
                                If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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