Post AcHebf9IKlyPUBy6VM by Lando@infosec.town
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 (DIR) Post #AcHebf9IKlyPUBy6VM by Lando@infosec.town
       2023-11-28T19:18:42.064Z
       
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       I remember setting up a linksys 802.11g router in my house 20 (‼️) years ago and trying to get the wireless adapter we got for the Xbox to connect. The router came with a default WEP password that was absurdly long. I think it was 128 characters. It worked for our pc with a wireless card. It worked on our laptop. It did not work with the Xbox. We tried case sensitive. No luck. All caps. Nothing. All lower case. Nope. We changed the password, removed the password, reset to factory. Xbox didn’t like it. 6 months of daily attempts later I found a network mapping app that had a tool to convert WEP passwords to hex, and that worked for some fucking reason. Then in grad school I learned how to perform a replay attack on a WEP network with aircrack, but it took hours. Then I remembered the hex thing and it took less than 5 minutes. Not sure why I’m thinking of this now.