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We’re expecting!

Loui is, to paraphrase a good friend, ‘like an orange in a sock’ at the mo Current estimate is for October the 3rd. Baby was kicking back and relaxing during the scan with his/her feet crossed so we couldn’t tell the gender. Next scan soon so we’ll see then.

Baby pics will be in the gallery as they appear.

I popped the question and Loui did me the honour of agreeing to be my wife

No plans for a wedding just yet – I probably won't beat my friend Steve's 11 year engagement though!

Tews, Weinmann and Pyshkin have published a paper on breaking 104 bit WEP in under a minute. While anyone who knows wireless security will argue that you shouldn't use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) anyway due to insecurities found back in 2001 by Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir, it’s not always an option. For example, the Nintendo DS uses WEP security and won't be upgraded.

The latest flaw requires 40,000 frames to stand a 50% chance of cracking the WEP encryption. 85,000 frames will generate a 95% chance of being cracked. Note on low-traffic connections you needn't wait too long for the relevant frames to be generated. Using tools like aireplay can help this though, by causing frames to be generated.

Getting the madwifi patches installed for my Netgear Atheros card. The card is discovered and used by Ubuntu anyway, but this allows packet injection and changes in the transmit rate.

Remove the original:

ifconfig ath0 down
rmmod ath_rate_sample wlan_wep ath_rate_onoe ath_pci wlan ath_hal
find /lib/modules -name ‘ath*’ -exec rm -v {} \;
find /lib/modules -name ‘wlan*’ -exec rm -v {} \;

Now get the new:

cd /usr/src
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng-current.tar.gz
tar -xvzf madwifi-ng-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-nf-r*
cp /usr/share/doc/aircrack-ng/injection-patches/madwifi-ng-r1886.patch .
cd ath
patch -Np1 -i madwifi-ng-r1886.patch
cd ..
make && make install
depmod -ae