It didn't look broken because the same approval was 2 places, but only one sent out an email...
Forum: News and Links

Looks like I fucked up the admin console a few months back and it wasn't sending out emails for new registrations...so that's fixed and I just approved a lot of old registered users and deleted a fuckload of spam. I probably deleted users as well, just reregister and I'll try and pay attention to what I'm doing this time.
Forum: News and Links

The proper terminology is probably too boring for the most part, though one can hope.. And though I agree hardware hacking is often portrayed unrealistically, I think it has a far higher chance of being closer to reality than hacking a website.
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That's cool, I've been hired to test security for games, but never to show them how to make hacking realistic. I bet they get bored fast... Hardware hacking is probably more realistic for a game, lockpicking/rewiring, etc.
Forum: News and Links

made up information is still information. information.
Forum: OMG Ponies

Please design me a mutant hacker slave that doesn't need sleep.
Forum: OMG Ponies

If you really need your account approved RIGHT NOW. email me, I don't look at the admin console all that much.
Forum: News and Links

Anyone coming out to Austin next month for SXSW?
Forum: OMG Ponies

dhcpcd is basically the same as dhclient, though it seems to be a little less configurable. It does seem that it is configurable enough to at least chance most of the information it is leaking. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man8/dhcpcd-bin.8.html
Forum: Privacy

I don't know about Linux, but on FreeBSD you can send whatever you want via the /etc/dhclient.conf. Worst case, hack the source code, I doubt it's hard to figure out where the client is gathering/sending that info.
Forum: Privacy

There's a million programs out there that do that. I'd look for ones that are following standards such as ITIL and ISO27k.
Forum: Vendor Talk

Merry Xmas, holidays, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, whatever your made up holiday is.
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Probably best to ask this question on the stunnel or PAN website, I'm not familiar with PAN at all, mostly because I am lazy and don't ever use Usenet anymore.
Forum: Privacy

I've cracked my way into a mid-size (~400M) trading firm's data center via biometric thumb scan using a pencil, tape and a copy machine. The first thing out of their security guy's mouth was "you're fuckin fucking me fuck, fuck fuck". It was supposed to be active biometrics, using both the fingerprint and checking for blood flow or heat, I'm not sure which, but it turns out my thumb push
Forum: Privacy

old thread, but PC-BSD rocks, I don't use full desktops, just 2x27" monitors filled with term windows (12 virtual desktops each), but if I had to set my mom up with a desktop it would be PC-BSD.
Forum: OMG Ponies

shit, hope someone showed up lightos. I'll be around until noon on Sunday.
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It's alwasy fun to hang out with sla.ckers in RL, ping me
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most likely an issue with the wireless chip driver or hardware.
Forum: Wireless Security

Once you've got the OIDs figured out use snmpset and change what you want. man snmpset
Forum: Networking

on any *NIX system you should have a command called "file", it uses something called "magic" (not joking). Basically it looks at file headers to determine the file type by querying a database. man file man magic
Forum: OMG Ponies

it's a zip file, I'm not even sure it's encrypted.
Forum: OMG Ponies

Nice job! you might also want to add John the Ripper has support for cracking DB passwords. you can also get there using Metasploit: http://www.metasploit.com/modules/auxiliary/analyze/jtr_mssql_fast
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good deal. I'll be building a new wireless pentest rig in a month or so. What card did you use? I'd like to find a decent one that works with N.
Forum: Wireless Security

btw, I'm ignoring anything from: qq.com yeah.net trash-mail.com 163.com that's 90% of our spam.
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There were 3 more spam accounts deleted, all created before the change. Sorry I've been neglecting my admin duties, but id is busy!
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I just disabled about 100 accounts that were set up before the change, but I'm sure I've missed a few so there's probably going to be some more spam until they work themselves out.
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so you think you're not good? I'd agree.
Forum: SPAM

Sorry I had to turn on Moderator confirmation for registration. I'm tired of the spam though, so all new users will have to wait for a moderator to approve the account. sucks, but o well
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your PC power supply has 12 volt lines going to the hard drive, that's a pretty common way to power LEDs. Another alternative is to just use an old power supply from a discarded electronic gadget like an old router or whatever you can find at 12v. I probably ~20 just laying around, you just need to make sure it is the right amperage. or just buy the right one: http://www.ledstrips8.com/wholesa
Forum: OMG Ponies

I have no idea if it works via VMware, but if it does I'd imagine you would have to make sure that VMware was bridging between the physical wireless interface and the emulated interface in the VM. What do you see when you do an "ifconfig" from the commandline?
Forum: Wireless Security