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evil yet hilarious geektool
Authored by: gerry81611 on Sep 28, '04 01:11:22AM

ok, this takes no skill to do (alert, scriptkiddies) but provides me with endless hours of entertainment. (yes, i am easily amused)

first, go get a copy of dsniff. the place that used to host the osx port is down, if you can't find it, reply and i'll post it somewhere.

when you boot up, open a shell and type:

sudo ps

and then enter your password, then

sudo dsniff -i en1 >en1.log &

en1 is of course the airport interface.

the ps part is because apparently if you launch a background task with & and it requires input, you will never see the prompt. I'm sure i could set it up somehow to automatically start with the computer (and if you know how, please tell me), but its not like i reboot all that often anyway.

then take the en1.log file and use it as the input to geektool and a screensaver like lotsofwords.

voila! all the plaintext passwords flying around on your local network show up on the desktop and as the screensaver.

hilarious lowbrow fun! secure ipfw properly and open up your WiFi network to the world! you could probably do the same thing with nmap too, if you were really motivated.. note that you should check your network policy before trying this at work.. passive sniffing is undetectable but might be against the rules, port scanning is usually detectable, and is almost certainly against the rules.



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evil yet hilarious geektool
Authored by: gerry81611 on Oct 14, '04 05:23:27PM

in response to requests, dsniff is posted at http://dsniff.geraldkoh.com. enjoy!



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evil yet hilarious geektool
Authored by: nachobel on Dec 08, '04 05:40:09PM

Hey, I downloaded the build you posted, but I can't seem to find anything that it has installed...

so, help?



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