Is connecting a Windows computer to your wired network worse than keeping it on Wi-Fi?
I'm not that knowledgeable on networking, but I do remember that if a device is connected to a wired network, it can end up receiving packets not meant for it because switches will flood all the ports for packets they don't know how to route. But I also heard that Wi-Fi is supposedly smarter than that and a device connected to it should never receive a packet not meant for it.
Is this true? And in practice, does this mean it's preferable should keep computers with invasive operating systems (which might decide to record foreign packets sent to it in its telemetry) on Wi-Fi instead of on the wired network?
Also, how exactly does Wi-Fi prevent devices from receiving the wrong packets when it's a radio based system and any suitable antenna can receive any Wi-Fi signal? Does each device get assigned a unique encryption key and so is only capable of decrypting packets meant for it? How secure is it actually?
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Dutch seizure of Nexperia followed US pressure over Chinese CEO
The Dutch court document said records from a June 12 meeting between U.S. Commerce Department officials and the Dutch Foreign Ministry showed rising pressure to remove Nexperia's Chinese CEO to help keep the company off the list.
"The fact that the company's CEO is still the same Chinese owner is problematic," the filing said, citing minutes from the Dutch-U.S. meeting. "It is almost certain the CEO will have to be replaced to qualify for the exemption from the entity list."
Nexperia is caught between the U.S. and China, with U.S. President Donald Trump ratcheting up pressure on tech as part of a broader trade war in which he threatened 100% tariffs on China's exports last week. Beijing has announced curbs on exports of rare earths.
Reddit already got on my bad side when they got rid of their Public Access TV thing, the only good idea they've had in years; removing 3rd party apps was the last straw for me.
Blows my mind that more people didn't leave over that. I was expecting a mass exodus, a la Digg.
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Mark Kelly says Kamala Harris ‘would be incredibly strong’ in a 2028 presidential run
Mark Kelly says Kamala Harris ‘would be incredibly strong’ in a 2028 presidential run
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) joins Meet the Press to respond to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ words about him in her new book — questioning whether he had been tested on the national stage — and weighs in on whether she should run for president a…www.nbcnews.com
Cat train stationmaster in Japan’s Yamagata retires
Cat train stationmaster in Japan’s Yamagata retires
Chocolat was rescued by the nonprofit organisation that manages the station. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions
Our steadfast people, this stage represents an opportunity to enhance social solidarity within the Gaza Strip by supporting affected families, securing the necessities of daily life and activating frameworks of cooperation between factions, society and relevant local and international institutions, creating a resilient and unified environment capable of facing all challenges and preserving our people’s steadfastness.We renew the call for unity and national responsibility, to embark on a unified national political path with all powers and factions. We are working in cooperation with gracious Egyptian efforts to hold an urgent and comprehensive national meeting for the next step after the ceasefire to unify the Palestinian position, formulate a comprehensive national strategy and rebuild our national institutions on the foundations of partnership, credibility and transparency.
We also stress our categorical rejection of any foreign guardianship and affirm that determining the form of governance for the Gaza Strip and the foundations of its institutions’ work is an internal Palestinian matter to be jointly decided by the national components of our people. We are prepared to benefit from Arab and international participation in the areas of reconstruction, recovery and development support, in a way that promotes a dignified life for our people and preserves their rights to their land.
In conclusion, at this decisive historical moment, we renew our loyalty to the martyrs, prisoners, wounded and resistance fighters. We affirm our unwavering adherence to our people’s rights to their land, homeland, holy sites and dignity and our insistence on continuing the resistance in all its forms until all our rights are achieved, foremost among them the removal of the occupation, self-determination and the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on Oct. 10, 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.Workers World
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Loops Joins the Fediverse
Loops Joins the Fediverse
We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.Daniel Supernault (Loops Official Blog)
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Seems a bit early to me.
I tried searching for @loops.video users on three separate mastodon instances and the only ones that pop up are the "official" accounts (@dansup@loops.video and @loops.video@loops.video).
Anyone else have better luck federating with loops?
Fediverse Report – #138
this week's fediverse news:
- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both activitypub and atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network
- Loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse
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Nvidia breakthrough gives 4-bit pretraining technique the accuracy of FP8
Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across…arXiv.org
Boosto qualunque thread mi citi nel suo primo post.
Quando Mastodon diventerà compatibile, per essere boostato automaticamente bisognerà per forza seguirmi e avere ricevuto il follow back, dopo di che boosterò i thread in cui verrò citato, con visibilità limitata a chi mi segue.
Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically (also, distro-picking).
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.
- Garuda (Arch-based)
- Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
- Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
- CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
- Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
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Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Robinson is a filthy provocateur and instigator of street violence against Muslims and asylum seekers.World Socialist Web Site
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This is where we are now.
Not the first openly antisemitic fascist they invited.
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Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed for release from Israeli detention today, while Israel continues to hold at least 115 more captives
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
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Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed for release from Israeli detention today, while Israel continues to hold at least 115 more captives
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
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Despite widespread interest, only 3 states passed regulating, license plate reader laws this year
Ukraine War: Russian Forces Attacked UN Aid Trucks in Kherson Region, Officials Say
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44064875
ArchivedRussian forces struck a United Nations aid convoy in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukrainian and UN officials said, though no one was reported injured or killed in the incident.
The United Nations said the convoy, consisting of four marked vehicles, came under attack from Russian drones and artillery while delivering humanitarian aid to the frontline town of Bilozerka.
"Such attacks are utterly unacceptable. Aid workers are protected by international humanitarian law and should never be attacked," said Matthias Schmale, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine.
Two trucks operated by the World Food Program were damaged in the strike, while two others were unharmed, he said. The UN Population Fund said the convoy was carrying 800 packages containing essential items for elderly people, women and girls.
"The area has a very high proportion of older people, many of whom are unable to relocate due to drones and shelling and rely on humanitarian assistance for survival," said Jacqueline Mahon, UNFPA's representative in Ukraine.
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DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
Prosecutors said that hundreds of people were trafficked and forced to work in the scam compounds, “often under the threat of violence.”
Zhi and a network of top executives in the Prince Group are accused of using political influence in multiple countries to protect their criminal enterprise and paid bribes to public officials to avoid actions by law enforcement authorities targeting the scheme, according to prosecutors.
DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
An indictment says forced-labor compounds ran cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes that stole billions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
Prosecutors said that hundreds of people were trafficked and forced to work in the scam compounds, “often under the threat of violence.”
Zhi and a network of top executives in the Prince Group are accused of using political influence in multiple countries to protect their criminal enterprise and paid bribes to public officials to avoid actions by law enforcement authorities targeting the scheme, according to prosecutors.
DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
An indictment says forced-labor compounds ran cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes that stole billions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
Ken Paxton sues leader of group (Melanated People of Power) trying to seize control of Texas’ least populated, but very wealthy, county for political reasons
“Not too often do you see a brother that looks like me come into the county and take the entire county over,” Tanner said in a July TikTok post. “Well, I have taken the entire county over, out here in Loving County, Texas. When these elections hit in 2026, we’re going to wipe the board. Everybody that I selected will be elected.”
Although many were rejected for technical reasons, he said most of them could be easily cured. A dozen of Tanner’s followers have successfully registered, the sheriff said last week.
Targeting an entire county for political takeover might seem difficult, but Loving County represented a ripe target. With only about 70 residents, it is the least-populated county in the country. County commission seats can be won with as few as a dozen votes; county-wide positions often are gained with fewer than 50.
Paxton sues leader of group trying to seize control of Loving County
Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Malcolm Tanner, the leader of a group of people that moved to Loving County with the intent to gain political control.Eric Dexheimer (Houston Chronicle)
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech in Israeli parliament
Trump made several claims about the Middle East conflict and other global peace deals that were not entirely true.
(shocker!)
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Why was FIFA President Infantino with Trump at Gaza peace summit in Egypt?
Why was FIFA President Infantino with Trump at Gaza peace summit in Egypt?
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino was among attendees in Egypt, continuing a string of appearances with the US president.Andrew Semple (Al Jazeera)
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At first I thought it said
Why was FIFA President in fellatio with Trump at Gaza peace summit in Egypt?
And it made sense.
US airports refuse to air Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown
US airports refuse to air Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown
Airports in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle and elsewhere cite laws barring partisan political content at TSA checkpointsJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
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Eco-Libre Life-Line v2025.10 is released
We’re happy to announce the release of the Eco-Libre Life-Line version 2025.10.
Who is Eco-Libre?
Eco-Libre is a volunteer-run project that designs libre technology for sustainable communities.
Eco-Libre's mission is to research, develop, document, teach, build, and distribute open-source technology that sustainably enfranchises communities' human rights.
We aim to provide clear documentation to build low-cost machines, tools, and infrastructure for people all over the world who wish to live in sustainable communities with others.
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If you'd like to help Eco-Libre reach our mission to enfranchise sustainable communities' human rights with libre tech, please contact us to get involved 😀
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Life-Line v2025.10 Released -
We just released v2025.10 of the Eco-Libre Life-Line project.Eco-Libre Team (Eco-Libre)
Meth disguised as Canadian beer kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the can was full of liquid methamphetamine, not beer.Avery Haines (CTVNews)
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Un cibo che costa poco e fa molto bene
Le Regine del Mare in Scatola: Perché le Sardine Sono il Tuo Prossimo Superfood Economico e Sostenibile
Oggi parliamo di un alimento spesso sottovalutato, solitamente associato ad un pasto frugale di un tempo che fu, dove la miseria regnava sov...Giuliano (Blogger)
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German State Replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with Open-Source Email
German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email
Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now | Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.David Brooks (The Atlantic)
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Google to spend $15 billion on AI data centre in biggest India investment
BENGALURU, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest ever investment in the world's most populous nation.The U.S. tech giant's plan comes amid a tense diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Washington over tariffs and a stalled trade deal, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged a boycott of foreign goods.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/google-invest-10-billion-data-centre-south-india-2025-10-14/
Chinese freighter halves EU delivery time on maiden Arctic voyage to UK
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50963139
The Istanbul Bridge's maiden voyage, originally expected to take 18 days, was delayed by two days due to a storm off the coast of Norway but the ship still reached Europe earlier than the 40 to 50 days it takes freighters going through the Suez Canal or around the Cape of Good Hope.The new Northern Sea Route, running entirely through Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic zone, can now be navigated by ships due to global warming.
Yeah, as the Clean Arctic Alliance recently said in response to China’s new containership route through the Arctic:
An increase in shipping in the Arctic will lead to
- an increase in shipping’s global climate impact due to black carbon emissions – which have a disproportionately higher impact when emitted in the Arctic,
- an increase in disturbance to wildlife and to communities dependent on marine resources due to increased ship pollution including underwater noise in a comparatively quiet ocean, and
- an increase in the risk of damaging oil spills.
As one report said, as the Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis.
As Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis
The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between continents are opening up, and the yearly window for navigating through these freezing waters is expanding.Lara BULLENS (FRANCE 24)
Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50962591
The Singapore Customs is investigating a case where a man entering Singapore did not declare that he was in possession of assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total.
Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport
The value of the items exceed the GST import relief granted to travellers. Read more at straitstimes.com.Daniel Lai (ST)
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping, a team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed today in a study that will likely resonate across the cybersecurity industry, telecom firms, and inside military and intelligence agencies worldwide.
Pretty much. But if you need to test it, you can buy another drive and install linux and your games there. If it doesn't work, you can use the extra drive for something else.
In Steam on Linux, use settings to enable Experimental or Proton for Windows games.
Edit: This is computer science, you must report your findings!
Is fortnite on steam though?
Good info either way, just not sure whether its relevant
It's not.
And the owner of Epic, which owns Fortnite, is rabidly anti Linux. I believe he's made some concessions to lose less of the Deck market share, but he's made many insulting and untrue statements of Linux and its users in the past as well as actively sabotaging Linux functionality in games that used to have it.
Can I run my whole steam library on linux?
Depends on the games you have. The biggest issue is anti-cheat, so competitive online games have a worse chance of working, nearly all other games should work though.
And also get the same performance from AAA games?
Again depends on the specific games. Some have worse performance than on Windows, some have better performance.
UK Intel Warns Politicians of China and Russia Spying Efforts
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44053091
Archived
- The UK's domestic security service, MI5, warned politicians and their staff that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in efforts to undermine British democracy.
- MI5 said foreign actors may use methods such as dishonest online approaches, hacks and cyber attacks to recruit assets and obtain information, and may use financial donations to influence politicians' decisions.
- The security service urged politicians to be wary of "overt flattery", conduct due diligence on new contacts, and report any suspicious interactions to their security team promptly.
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“The UK is a target of long-term strategic foreign interference and espionage from elements of the Russian, Chinese and Iranian states which, in different ways, seek to further their economic and strategic interests and cause harm to our democratic institutions,” according to the advice.
The document comes just weeks after a high-profile espionage case in which two men were accused of spying for China fell apart, sparking criticism of the government’s handling of the case and Starmer’s wider policy toward Beijing, with which he has sought to improve diplomatic ties since entering office last year.
Separately, Nathan Gill — a former Welsh leader of Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing Reform UK party — pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes in exchange for making statements in favor of Russia.
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in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •Snot Flickerman
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •This is only applicable to IPv4 networking and is very much "the old way" of doing things. If you have properly designed and set up your own home network, you shouldn't be having broadcast traffic happen at all, because all your switches should have a MAC table that includes all the devices you have physically connected. Especially if you have bothered to take the time to hand out static addresses tied to the MAC address. A broadcast should generally only be happening if there is an unknown destination on the LAN, and an unknown destination only happens when there is a new device added at an unknown location. Once a broadcast packet has been sent and replied to, the switch fills it's MAC table with the information on the new device, now knowing it's location.
Wi-Fi's packets can be intercepted by anyone, it's technically sending all packets on blast as radio waves at all times. Sure, modern Wi-Fi can be encrypted, but that encryption can also often be broken.
Finally, IPv6 doesn't use broadcast packets at all, instead using multicasting, which is similar to a broadcast but doesn't flood every port in the wired network and is a bit more tightly directed.
twinnie
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •The flooding a network thing really isn’t an issue, they’ll only flood for the first packet just to find the way and then it stops. Fire up Wireshark on a different machine and transfer a file between two other machines, you won’t see anything. I don’t know too much about WiFi but it probably does the same, it’s just a bridge to the same network.
Wired is probably better because machines can estimate your location from the SSID and they can leak the password giving access to the network.
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in reply to twinnie • • •This is true, but only because we've replaced Ethernet hubs with switches.
An Ethernet hub was a dumber, cheaper device that imitated a switch, but with a fundamental difference: all connected devices were in the same collision domain.
Wireless communication has the same problem as Ethernet hubs, with no real solution like a switch though. Any wireless transmission involves an antenna, and transmitting is similar to standing in your yard with a bull horn to talk to your buddy two houses down. Anyone with an antenna can receive the wireless signal you send out. Period.
So some really smart people found ways to keep the stuff you send private, but anyone can sit nearby and capture data going through the air, it's just not anything you can use because of the encryption.
9point6
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •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
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in reply to 9point6 • • •Aircrack-ng can only try to guess the simple shared password (pre-shared key). So when you run your airodump-ng, it's got to show the network as having type PSK, or you're pissing up a rope. With WEP, you could collect IVs, however, with WPA/WPA2, there are no IVs to collect. So you have to guess the password one by one. The only clue you get is when a device performs a handshake with the Wi-Fi. You need to capture that handshake to even start guessing. WPA/WPA2 passwords can be/should be quite long, like up to 63 letters, numbers, or symbols. If the password is a simple word like "cat" or "password," aircrack-ng might guess it if it’s in the dictionary.
So it behooves the Wi-Fi owner to create a very long, complicated, password with all the bells and whistles. If you are using WEP, you might as well be holding up a sheet of single ply, no brand toilet paper. Also, turn off WPS and UPnP ffs.
9point6
in reply to irmadlad • • •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
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in reply to 9point6 • • •At 71, I struggle sometimes remembering what I had for breakfast. LOL It is a very interesting rabbit hole for me as well. Wasn't trying to correct you, I'm an expert at nothing. Your comment just spurred a memory of a long forgotten era of my life as a wannabe haxor.
FauxLiving
in reply to 9point6 • • •The 4-way handshake crack was the only key recovery attack until 2018 when the PMKID-based attack was discovered (here: hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.…). The PMKID crack attack still required brute-forcing the key, but it didn't require the 4-way handshake so you didn't have to depend on a de-authentication attack to get started.
At that time there was another WPA vulnerability, if you were using WPA-TKIP, but it only allowed sending a few small packets every 10-12 minutes so it wouldn't allow you to gain access to the network.
Later there were a few WPS-based attacks but they were slow (4 hours to recover the WPS PIN) and/or limited to specific manufacturers (weak hardware random number generation).
New attack on WPA/WPA2 using PMKID
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in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •irmadlad
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •Your device, say an iphone, has a MAC address. It sends a request to the Wi-Fi access point. The Wi-Fi router also has a MAC address and responds with a packet that contains the destination MAC address (your iphone). All devices listen to all Wi-Fi signals but only processes packets where the destination MAC matches its own. If the MAC doesn’t match, it ignores the packet. This happens at the data link level or commonly referred to as Layer 2 of the OSI model.
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in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •No. For the purposes you’re talking about wired is fine.
How your network is managed and set up makes it possible to get more security from WiFi using a bunch of new technologies added to recent WiFi protocols but you’d have to be actually have set all that up and have compatible networking stacks on the computers.
Also, and I say this as no great lover of Microsoft or its products, windows isn’t snooping network traffic not meant for it and bundling it up in its telemetry uploads.