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Archive for April 5th, 2007

Cracking Wireless WEP-104 in record time

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

 
Cracking 104 bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) itself is old news. However new *cracking speed* is mind blowing.
According to new research it takes less than one minute to break a common 802.11 104-bit WEP encryption:

WEP is a protocol for securing wireless LAN. WEP therefore uses the RC4 stream to encrypt data which is transmitted over [...]

Open Source Technologies are Paving New Channel Inroads

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

 
The first thing that naturally comes to mind is Linux and then maybe the Apache Web server project. But all across the landscape, there are a number of less-ambitious, open-source efforts under way that hold a lot of promise for solution providers looking to shore up their profitability. One class that is beginning to get [...]

Creating hackergotchis using the GIMP

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

 
A hackergotchi is a picture of a person’s head that’s used as an avatar for identification on a blog. Any region below the neck is cut out, as are any portions of the picture that don’t include the head. You can create a hackergotchi easily with a…

 
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