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ghostdeini

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Originally Posted by GQgeek
It's more about convenience imo. If you're messing around on those types of sites with any sort of frequency, you're going to end up with a pile of **** that you don't want on your pc. With a VM, you can just go back to a previous image and you avoid the hassle of having to "clean" your pc.

I think that's a bit of a misconception... this is my ratio on a private tracker:

Uploaded: 940.29 GB
Downloaded: 915.05 GB

as you can see, almost a terabyte both ways... from dvd-r, applications, operating systems, games, tv shows. not a single virus or spyware

if you're careful and are computer-savvy, that kind of crap is pretty easy to avoid
 

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Between various clients, I've done about .6TB both ways. Never had a virus, trojan, or any other kind of problem. This stuff isn't magical. You can avoid it if you're even just mildly competent.
 

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Originally Posted by briancl
This is what I do for a living

I know, it wasn't directed at you, more for the starbucks crowd on here.
 

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Originally Posted by briancl
Wires might not stop people, but they will certainly slow them down. It's all about low hanging fruit. If you have an unsecured wireless network or just a WEP encrypted network, then you are an easy target. If you have WPA2 or purely wired network, then most people will pass you by. There are simply too many other easy targets.

Have you ever successfully cracked a WEP key outside of a lab? I tried it 2 years ago on some neighbors but they didn't generate enough traffic for the program I was using to be able to crack it.
 

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Originally Posted by briancl
This is what I do for a living

You steal passwords for a living?
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Originally Posted by tiecollector
Have you ever successfully cracked a WEP key outside of a lab? I tried it 2 years ago on some neighbors but they didn't generate enough traffic for the program I was using to be able to crack it.

Yes. In corporate environments cracking WEP or WPA isn't so hard. It's all just a matter of traffic. In big metro areas or densely populated residential areas (think apt. buildings or condos), its also not hard to come across one or two high traffic, non secured AP's in a given time.
 

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Originally Posted by Alter
You steal passwords for a living?
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It's one of the things. People pay a lot of money to find out what can be stolen from their networks.
 

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Originally Posted by briancl
It's one of the things. People pay a lot of money to find out what can be stolen from their networks.

Glad to hear that you are using your superpowers for good, not evil. Keep up the good fight, Superhacker.
 

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Originally Posted by briancl
Yes. In corporate environments cracking WEP or WPA isn't so hard. It's all just a matter of traffic. In big metro areas or densely populated residential areas (think apt. buildings or condos), its also not hard to come across one or two high traffic, non secured AP's in a given time.

I think I used airsnort back in the day for WEP, looks like there is one called coWPAtty for WPA, oh the names these |337 peeps come up with.
 

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Hey, if one is not seeding, how symmetric is the upload/download traffic? I don't think I'm allowing it to seed, but total traffic is like 45MB down, 16MB up, which seems upload heavy to me. PLus, with a bandwidth limit of 20.6 Kbps up, it's forever.

Is there a decent FAQ/explanation of all the terminology/background out there? Not a total luser but man, I need to know more.

Thanks,
Huntsman
 

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It's not symmetrical. With a fairly active torrent, you'll probably get full up and full down. Speed is basically the single thing bittorrent does well.
 

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Well, I didn't expect it to be 50/50, but if not seeding, I expected more like 90 down/ 10 up. Speed?! Speed?! I am getting like 3-18Kb/s. I realize it has to do with how many seeds and peers are out there, and also anti-me stuff, but sheesh that's slow.
 

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