Pirate Trials and Wifi Hackery
I must apologize for the gap since my last post, I am severely disappointed in myself for letting this much time get by before I wrote on this bugger again. The server has been moved to a bigger and better server since the last post. We are now rockin’ a beast of an Alienware laptop that won’t slow down on the busy days this domain draws in every now and then. Since the server also provides services besides this blog, hehehe, I needed the extra power that the original junker I set this up on did not provide. Point being, it makes me happy whether you understand what I am talking about your not….which means you should be happy too 
 I have a few things I would like to talk about today such as the Pirate Bay trials, my Wifi hacking presentation, and whatever else I come up with by the time I get to the fourth paragraph. Here it goes…
So in case you didn’t know,the masterminds behind one of the most infamous torrent trackers, The Pirate Bay, started their trial earlier this week.  Movies and record labels worldwide rejoiced as they thought they were about to sink a titanic player in the torrent industry, they were very wrong. Not two days into the trial, prosecutors dropped the major charges of copyright infringement that would have nailed the Pirate Bay crew to the wall. If at this point you don’t know what a torrent is, it basically is just another way to download things on the internet. Think of a much more sophisticated limewire or Kazaa that is actually inteded to the dissemination of legal materials. The defendents also have developed an ingenous “i-dunno” strategy in order to make their case in court. According to two of the defendents, they don’t read the contracts they sign, proof the speeches they write, or have any idea what the law may say about anything illegal they may be doing. Fredrik Neij, owner of thepiratebay.org, who claims to be dyslexic, backs his site fully saying that he was under the understanding that everything he was doing was legal. Essentially, they guys made a mockery of the courtroom and further infuriated the media industry worldwide as they continue to evade any attempt at ending the pirate’s reign of the internet. They also made a good point in the process, Youtube has a significantly more copyright infringing material that the pirate bay, and even many other torrent trackers that are out there. According to s survey of 1000 torrents on the site, almost 80% of those included legally downloadable content. All in all these guys are fighting the man half the world around. You should follow their trial as they continue their awesome strategy of playing stupid and making judges and lawyers very, very angry.
On February 22nd at 7PM in Dreese 266 here at The Ohio State University, I will be giving a talk about how to hack most commercial Wifi networks’ encryption protocols at the Open Source Club meeting……you should come and watch this crazy shit and maybe learn a thing or two. I will be covering WEP hacking, WPA hacking as well as going in depth on the protocols themselves in order to show their strength’s and then their weaknesses….mostly by cracking them open like a little binary walnut. And, if there is time, I may even go into man-in-the-middle attacks and how they can be used to steal anything and everything you send over a network that has been cracked. This, of course, is just a proof of concept talk and nothing I talk about or show you should be used except for testing purposes and fun 
 You should come so I can make you a wizard in cracking dumb peoples networks who make their passphrase something like “wireless” or “hackmeogodpleasehackme.” Even if you are not computer literate you should still join b/c this stuff is cool and I will do my best to make it the best computer talk your eyes will ever witness. If not, its cool, you read my blog so you’re still on my A list.
Back in normal people world…..I would like to take this time to say that I hate people who have this idea that they have this God given right to drive in the left lane even though they are not passing anyone. This idea is completely ludicrous. I actually once saw a bumper sticker on a ladies truck (who was driving 50 in a 65 in the LEFT LANE) that said, “I can drive in the left lane if I want to.” NOOOOOOO!!!!! If i wasn’t traveling > 60 MPH at the time I would get out of my car and pound some sense into this idiots head. I know that in Kentucky you can actually be ticketed for driving in the left lane if you are not passing anyone…..this rule should be established worldwide to keep idiots like the bumper sticker lady in the lane that they belong. It drives me absolutely insane when I am in a hurry, or I just can’t stand being behind someone anymore, when I cannot pass a group of cars because one of these people who think it is their divine right to be in the left lane is in front of me. I typically set my cruise at 75+, which is a good deal faster than most cars on the highway, so I spend a lot of my time passing people……BUT, once I pass them I get right back into the right lane so that if someone is going 90 they can get around me with ease, problem freaking solved.  This drives me insane and happened like 6 times on my way back from Dayton this morning so I had to get it off my chest. I’m out for tonight, I have actual school work that I should be putting my thoughts into
And now, for your viewing pleasure……a really long but hilarious review of the NES game Back to the Future. Watch it, it’s way worth it