[HN Gopher] Bettercap - Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 a...
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Bettercap - Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6
networks
Author : punnerud
Score : 179 points
Date : 2022-12-03 12:59 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| snvzz wrote:
| Definitely a pun on Ettercap[0].
|
| 0. https://www.ettercap-project.org/
| usr1106 wrote:
| Sounds interesting. So far I am mostly happy with Ethereal and
| mitmproxy. But maybe better stuff is out there? Experiences from
| users?
| rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote:
| Bettercap is very different than Wireshark because it's
| specificaly built with attacks in mind and it's not just a
| generic packet sniffer.
| alanfranz wrote:
| In fact bettercap is a very obvious pun on the venerable
| ettercap, I suppose.
| rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote:
| Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by
| people with very questionable behaviour(do a google search
| for Hacking Team company).
| dontbenebby wrote:
| >Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by
| people with very questionable behaviour
|
| I mean, how far are we gonna take this type of logic,
| considering the foundations of statistics (eg: Chi-
| squared distribution) were invented by eugenicists? :-)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson#Politics_and_e
| uge...
|
| At least they open sourced the code so it can be used by
| good people as well -- it's better to remove the RCEs and
| leverage them against your enemies than to keep the
| knowledge esoteric so that only the privileged can
| attack.
| rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote:
| What is this weird jump to politics, eugenics nazis or
| whatever? You're the second person that went there.
|
| I just wanted people to know that ettercap is a tool
| written by people that can't be trusted when it comes to
| writing open source software.
|
| Will you run any tools made public by NSO or any other
| company like that???
| anigbrowl wrote:
| You said it was built by sketchy people but didn't
| explain what people were supposed to conclude from that
| (though you have since mentioned 'bugdoors.' So people
| projected their own guesses onto it, thinking your moral
| terms (bad people) were a clue to the mysterious hidden
| subtext.
|
| You'd have been better off saying 'I don't trust
| ettercap, it was built by xxxx and seemingly innocuous
| code might exploit obscure vulnerabilities, backfiring
| severely on those who try to use it.'
| dontbenebby wrote:
| > _What is this weird jump to politics, eugenics nazis or
| whatever? You 're the second person that went there._
|
| Two thirds is a supermajority in most democracies, so
| you're the weird one.
|
| > _Will you run any tools made public by NSO or any other
| company like that???_
|
| Not only would I be ABSOLUTELY willing to use NSO's code
| (or anyone else's) to make a list, check it twice, then
| go out into the real world like the hit 1984 action film
| "Terminator" if I felt that was necessary to avert loss
| of innocent life and I felt that the local police, state
| police, federal bureau of investigation, and the national
| guard were all refusing to deal with the issue. (Though
| I'd do it from a VM so if they try to hack back, I can
| just roll back to a known good snapshot and save whatever
| they threw at me to possibly sell at a profit to fight
| another day.
|
| The United States of America (where I'm posting from for
| now) is a two party presidential republic, not a
| multiparty parliamentary democracy, human rights are not
| "political", and the mother's menu for abusers in a post
| COVID world is to with the program, or get in the ground
| with Jeffrey Epstein.
|
| There is no more " _third way_ ", and if you don't want
| some chicken fingers loving autist making comments _you_
| are _choosing_ to _perceive_ as weird on Hacker News, be
| the change you want to see in the world and give said
| autist something better to do on a Saturday.
|
| - Greg.
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| ... That makes the code worse how?
|
| I'm not going to stop using or talking about Jordan
| algebras, say, even though Pascual Jordan was a literal
| Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of
| the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental
| physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise
| of the American one). It bears mentioning, certainly, and
| subtracts from the scientific merit (among other things)
| of the _person_ , but has nothing to do with the
| scientific merit of the _notion_.
| rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote:
| >That makes the code worse how?
|
| I don't trust the authors to have the best intentions
| anymore, I would assume there's "bugdoors" they know
| about.
|
| A moot point anyway because ettercap has not been updated
| for years.
| zweifuss wrote:
| > "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant
| participant in the destruction of the centuries-old
| German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and
| the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one)."
|
| That's an oversimplified account of his role in the Nazi
| era.
|
| https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.8828
| 58
| [deleted]
| antegamisou wrote:
| I was about to suggest Wireshark until I looked up Ethereal and
| discovered it was the former's original name.
|
| Had no idea in the ~15 years I've been using it!!
| usr1106 wrote:
| Ah sorry, I was still half asleep when typing the comment. I
| wondered why typing Ethereal felt somehow strange. Right, it
| has been called Wireshark for a while...
| codaphiliac wrote:
| Now I feel old
| j1elo wrote:
| The page about Bluetooth LE [1] shows a video [2] which is part
| of an article about hacking of a BT lock, but the link [3] is
| broken and doesn't work. It is readable in the web archive [4],
| but the archive has lots of broken images.
|
| It's a shame that this content went away so fast... say what you
| want about the typical blogspot or medium blog, but at least they
| tend to last longer than some personal websites :-( Can we read
| that article elsewhere, has it been made available in other site
| and just not updated in the Youtube description?
|
| [1]: https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/
|
| [2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA
|
| [3]: https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-
| wit...
|
| [4]:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeoh...
| sickmate wrote:
| https://archive.ph/sh7dE
| hyperific wrote:
| I want to say that bettercap is at the core of the pwnagotchi
|
| pwnagotchi.ai
| dontbenebby wrote:
| Funny name, interesting project
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