The worst part about moving to a new city is most certainly the period when you’re Internet-less. I was lucky in that my corporate housing here in London had excellent broadband, with 802.11g to boot! Since I’ve moved out of there, however, my flatmates and I have been forced to sit in uncomfortable positions with our laptops delicately balanced to stay connected to our neighbour’s wireless. We were fortunate that one kind soul left theirs unlocked (BTVOYAGER2100-63, we thank you!) but after some heavy-duty late-night abuse (needed the VS 2005 Beta 2 bits), the poor guy decided to invest some time and learn how to lock his AP. (I feel no guilt about this — if anything, I did him a favour, because he hadn’t even changed his AP’s default password — I/anyone could have locked him out of his own AP!)
Anyway, I’ve been coughing up cash at our neighbourhood cybercafe ever since, and will hopefully get broadband set up sooner rather than later now. Until then, I did a bit of research on WEP cracking.
I’m sure there’s a lot of literature out there, but the most visible has been the guide on Tom’s Networking. This uses the Auditor security collection CD to do a step-by-step walkthrough of the process. It looks pretty good, but painfully basic — it takes them 9 pages to explain how to set up the hardware.
The Auditor website itself has a very interesting Tutorials page which looks much more promising. This thing has guides not only for WEP cracking, but also WPA cracking! If you’re not much of a reader, it gets better: their tutorials are Flash videos!
Now there’s just the little problem of downloading the Auditor CD…hmm…
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