What, if any are the negative points (aside from the loss of speed) of using visualization software, namely Virtualbox, instead of doing a native install or a Persistent USB install?
From the...

...are you messin with me?
what's goin on here?
mpg321 is a clone of mpg123...

It is in no way illegal for me to disconnect someone that is connecting to MY NETWORK.... and as I mentioned, mac addresses and all that jazz wasn't what I was wanting to explore here... if you don't...

uh... why?


what does that mean? i'm... very confused right now...

I was in the terminal... and this popped up:


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You know how when you're packet sniffing, and you deauthenticate the user to get the arp packet?
am i correct in that deauthentication disconnects the user from that network?
and if so is there a...

Thanks amael,
I had already registered for the forums, it's pretty unorganized with alot of questions and very few replies... I'll definitely look into irongeeks page. Thanks again.

have you been to their site? I've seen absolutely NO installation instructions... for linux that is... it's virtually dummy proof in windows... but I can't find anything on installing it on linux......

:) Let's just say there are some pretty nice perks to this one...

care to elaborate?

...but if you're booting linux off of that same USB device... you could totally bypass the machines OS. so the only way that I could see a machine actually seeing you make any transfers would be...

Am I correct in assuming this installation with work the same with BT4?

or even a USB with persistent changes install...

Has anyone looked into other pen testing OS's such as KnoppixSTD, PHLAK, or Nubuntu? if so what were your experiences with them, what sort of pro's and cons did they have and how do they compare to...

they can if they somehow manage to 'acquire' my property while i'm not around it... and my work sends me out often to travel abroad... and where we go, we usually don't stay at hotels... but more...

isn't that only if you are logged in under that OS?


look, i don't have to explain myself to you, if you think i'm doing some immoral or w/e then that's fine, don't offer your help, but i have my...

i'm not talking about a corporation... and i'm not talking about putting stuff on other peoples computers...
I'm talking about my private computer...

wow... i wonder...... if I could configure its trajectory just right..... what are the grid coordinates for PA?

Or maybe I work in a place that routinely violates privacy rights in order to secure 'sensitive' data...

My motives aren't devious... I'd just like to maintain my privacy in the wake of...

I like where you're going with this!... and thanks for your input, checkin out trucrypts site now.

What I'd like to do:
1. Encrypt the drive to make it at least harder if not damn near impossible to view the files on the drive.
2. When you plug it in I would prefer it not automatically mount the...

I have my USB set up to boot backtrack w/ persistent changes. Is it possible to encrypt the USBs files and still be able to boot from it without causing problems?

and if not that... is there a...

Hmmm, I wasn't even aware of this option... I'll check into this.

Well then, I must just be incredibly lucky all those times that I've successfully used this method to come across my network in the past then eh? So all this time airodump's just been a packet...

actually I've successfully used airodump-ng to do exactly that...
and you're wrong...
But i'll try it your way anyhow.


and kismet's not picking up my bssid either...

whenever I run a

airodump-ng <device>
I can't find the AP that I set up to run in wep. (correction, it just takes about ahalf an hour to show up)

But I can find it when I specify the channel...