[ProgSoc] how to program to try password of wireless

Daniel Bryan danbryan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 17:00:41 EST 2011


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tina Ng <rosareven at gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt that can happen. Ethical issue aside, you don't know if the
> password requires activation by the help desk before it is usable. In other
> words, the passwords might not even exist in the first place until the help
> desk starts it up.
>
> The help desk / technical department may also be tracking all wireless
> connections for unauthorised access, namely connections that happened
> without checking in with the help desk first.
>
> Of course, there is always a chance that your favourite library has none of
> these safeguards implemented, but I don't think it'll worth the effort to
> brute-force the password than simply asking for access at the help desk.
>
> - Tina
>
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, bangdao hu <bangdao.hu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, guys. Hope you all had a great time!
>>
>> I have been to local library very often these days, and the wireless
>> password changes everyday and I have to ask the help desk to get the
>> password everytime I went into the library, which is quite annoying.
>>
>> I found that the password is quite easy, with a fixed length of 9
>> characters. And inside it, there always got a "library". So the password
>> pattern is like **library, *library*, library**. Quite easy to got the 2028
>> possible results.
>>
>> Now the problem is I don't know how to write a program to try the
>> password. I bet you guys have heaps of ideas and experiences of doing this.
>> Please help! Thanks. The OS is windows 7.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards
>>
>> Bangdao
>>
>>
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"Ethical issue" indeed. Surely respecting the security policy of a public
library outweighs the minor inconvenience of having to ask for a password to
access free internet? If it's so bothersome, get a smartphone and tether it
for your internet access.
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