Times Change
How to improve your quality of living in 15 minutes.
I heard about Club-Mate before but it was not until recently I had the chance to actually taste this wonderful beverage. A colleague from Berlin had a couple of crates stored in his office and so I grabed a bottle.
Within one second my quality of living rose many times over and since then I haven't been drinking anything else. Only drawback is that it isn′t really easy to get. You might have to check forum posts to find a local dealer.
Anway, the German CCC podcast Hackerbrause is a nice listening about hacker soft drinks in general and Club-Mate specifically.
Password Security
This is just too crazy. Right now I am sitting in a hotel room of a hotel chain which offers WLAN services itself (a software called “HotSpotCenter” from Dr. Eckhardt + Partner GmbH) and through Swisscom.
Both solutions are far too expensive and I usually do not depend on such things since I have a UMTS flatrate. But for some reason I do not get a connection in my hotel room and so I looked for unsecured wireless networks and of course I found one right away with the hotel name as SSID. Connecting to it and opening a web browser I was presented with a welcome page asking me to present my credentials.
I then figured they have some kind of MAC authentication and wanted to sniff wireless traffic a little bit and see if I could capture a MAC address of an allowed client. So I started MS Netmon and shortly after I had a MAC address to try out. But then my wireless network driver would not let me change my MAC address and with no Internet access I was chasing my own tail.
“What the heck let’s try some passwords” I thought and my first try was the hotel name as user and password. Doing so I found myself confronted with the administrative interface of the HotSpot Software.
Playing around a little but I finally printed myself a nice little voucher and now I am writing this post.
Now this is password security the way I like it.
About
Originally this site was intended as a project site. The goal was to define standards for the perimeterless network using
open-source software. To be honest I simply do not have the time for such a thing. So what is left is a blog with sporadic
posts that are either helpful for myself or I think are helpful for others, too since I had a hard time finding information
on the Internet. Think of it as a knowledge base.
Ehm yes, somtimes I write down my two cents on any topic that may go through my mind at that point in time ;-)