I know I’m late in mentioning this, but I’ve been very busy in both professional and personal life, so things like spewing bile on a blog have to wait.

Anyway, Kismac has been moved away from it’s German roots, due to draconian and rather pathetic laws that have been passed there, from the Kismac team;

“As you may well be aware, we have moved this part of the site offshore to Switzerland. The German politicians have shown their lack of understanding of security matters by deciding to ban anything that can be used to breach security.”

The new site is located at http://kismac.macpirate.ch/ so drop by there, and if you can program, get involved!

Trip to Santander, via the Alsa Supra, stops in Oviedo first, then onto Santander. Total trip time about 3 hours.

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Gijón is pretty much uncharted territory on wigle.net, so I brought my GPS, laptop and USB wifis with me this trip. Since I didn’t have a car to cruise round in, I set up my laptop up on my son’s walker and pushed him down to the beach for a stroll in the evening…

I was pretty amazed by the results, a helluva lot of APs, and a lot of the were unprotected or just WEP.

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I’m on holiday in Spain, Gijón to be precise. It’s a lovely town, right by the sea, very hot, affluent and safe… and lots of APs. So what does a geek do? Get the laptop and wifi gear out for a scan!

From a walk through the apartment, into each room, I collected 124 APs. Not bad going! The placement of the APs is all over the place, because the GPS unit was indoors and probably lost it’s signal. But here’s the results of a 30 second walk!

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I had a meeting in north Manchester today, and needed to take my laptop to go see
property developers Dylan Harvey. Cue hoping in the car and rigging up the kit to look like NASA control…

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I didn’t go the ’scenic’ route, through Rishton and Clayton-le-moors, maybe next time…

Honing in on office space, so you can make an educated guess as to where we’re going from this map.

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So we’re moving offices soon, and are looking at business parks around the area, so the stumblin’ gear was set up in the car and off we went
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I got a Linksys WUSB54G v4 off Ebay last week, with the intention of modding it for an external antenna, but took it for a drive earlier today.I was picking up a lot more SSIDs during a drive around town, routes I’ve travelled before and I’m pretty sure I was picking up SSIDs from both sides of the street, as opposed to the houses on the side I’m driving. It’s done my wigle.net stats the world of good

Looks like the WUSB54G is a good, receptive bit of kit. Can’t wait for the modding!
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We went over to Manchester for a D&AD lecture evening at the PrintWorks, guest speaker in question was Hillman Curtis, and damn fine it was too… but what would a trip to Manchester be without a scan?
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An article on The Register proclaiming WEP is dead. A group of 3 German students have refined the methods and developed a faster method for cracking using ARP packet injections…

“So to make it a little bit easier for the reader we can say that 60 seconds are enough to collect 40,000 packets and crack the key with a 50 per cent success rate.”

Basically, this kicks down the already shoddy house that is WEP encryption, and really, if you have no need to hook up your PSP and Nintendo DS,you should be using WPA authentication on your networks at least.

The obvious question, (when packet reinjection is done) when can we see this in KisMAC?