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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Probably 100-200km on foot, I try to get 10,000 steps a day, but don’t always hit it

    I probably go into the office 5 times a month and that’s about 10km each way, though I’ll mix up either using tram or taxi depending how late I am. So let’s say 60km on tram, 40km in a cab

    Probably do the same kind of split for leisure travel locally, though the cabs are more for late nights or areas not near a tram stop, so say another 60km & 40km.

    I probably travel across the country by train about 6 times a year to visit family and friends in near London, so that’s 2x 3km cabs to the station (the tram doesn’t go there yet) and 2x 350km of train travel. So half that for a monthly average amount, 3km taxi, 350km train. Probably add another 50km of trains monthly just for random domestic travel not to visit my family.

    Journeys involving flights probably more like 3 a year, usually to somewhere in Europe, 2x 8km taxi to and from the airport, let’s just say 2x 1000km as that puts me in the middle of Europe. So quarter that for average monthly and 4km cab, 500km plane.

    Average monthly totals:

    • ~150km on foot
    • ~120km on trams
    • ~90km on taxis
    • ~400km on trains
    • ~500km on plane

    =~1260km a month

    I don’t drive my own car and this is a reminder that I need to finally get my bike fixed. But hey, had no idea I was moving around so much.




  • I vaguely remember getting into a WPA network (that I owned!) using kismet about 15 years ago with relative ease, but I’m struggling to remember details about that process.

    I also remember reading that WPA2 non-enterprise was broken a while ago, however I just looked into it and both of the main exploits I can find were patchable (and have been patched) at client OS level (They were the KRACK and FragAttacks). Seems like there has already been something found wrong with WPA3 too that’s also been addressed.

    So yeah as you say back to brute forcing for the most part. Forcing reconnects was a pretty easy way to get more handshakes to record back when I last tried, so I assume that still has decent levels of success, given the prevalence of mesh networks. Looking further it seems people use a tool called hashcat today to get pretty rapid results doing the actual brute forcing using a modern GPU.

    But yes very good advice all in all, long passwords and the highest WPA version you can get away with are going to make an attackers job harder.

    Thanks for the reply, you got me to go back down an interesting rabbit hole I’ve not looked at in a while


  • Worth highlighting WiFi blasts all your data in all directions, and unless you’re using enterprise/WPA3 encryption with a strong password, someone determined enough can break in.

    If someone wanted to they could park near your house and run aircrack (or whatever the modern suite is called) without you ever knowing. FWIW this is why it’s good to set up a way of getting notified about new devices on your network (most modern non-ISP routers support a way of doing this)

    Conversely, I believe most ethernet NICs discard any packet not intended for it at hardware level, they’re super optimised for speed, it would be much slower to leave that for software. I’m not 100% if that’s universal however, so I’d try and double check that











  • For anyone that’s not twigged it yet

    They’re already turning this into another culture war to ensure they can continue to enrich the establishment.

    The petrochemical industry has a lot of money to burn on propaganda if it’s facing an existential threat.

    Remember this when you read anything other than “we should be decarbonising as quickly as possible”

    The best thing for everyone (in basically every possible way) except petrochemical shareholders is heavy investment in renewable technology and the ending of petrochemical subsidies.