Irongeek's Wall of Social Science Majors

Posted Mar 9th 2006 11:00AM by Eliot Phillips
Filed under: downloads hacks

If you've ever read a story about Defcon, the lede probably had something to do with The Wall of Sheep, the giant pojection of every plaintext username and password crossing the network. You may have even seen one of your favorite sites fall victim to it. One of my favorite people, Irongeek, decided to whip up a little PHP script so that anybody could set up their own Wall of Sheep style system. The backend is powered by the near-magical Ettercap and the script just parses the output into an easy to read format. I think this would be a great warning sign to place on your hotspot's splash page.

[via PaulDotCom]

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1. SDASDASDASD

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by YUNUS

2. that is very good

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by yehia

3. i like reading his site. very good tutorials and videos.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by roberto

4. Nice idea.. Few things could be improved though, like chaing the shame.php bit in the redirect to ..would stop the reload screwing up if the file isn't named shame.php And to start ettercap, add the lines if($_GET['etter']=="on"){ system("ettercap -Tq -d -m /var/ettertest.txt"); } and access the script with shame.php?etter=on, which would mean you'd not have to manualy start ettercap. Maybe something that checks if ettercap is running, if not it runs the code would be a better way of doing it.. (Check shell_exec("ps -a"); for ettercap or something..) Irongeek's site is great, it's one of the few sites with decent video tutorials, that dont' start with someone typing in a text editor, which looks.. not the best.. And the rest of the articles are generaly well written/usefull.. - Ben

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by dbr

5. Yay!

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Nat

6. @ sco sci maj If you take the fence and then get some sheep you could start a pol sci farm.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by tashammer

7. Once upon a time there was an invention. The inventor showed it to a scientist, who said, "Cool. Why does it work?" He showed it to an enginner, who said, "Cool. How does it work?" He showed it to an accountant, who said, "Cool. How much will it cost to make?" He then showed it to a liberal arts major, who said, "Cool... ...You want fries with that?"

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Mordac

8. #7 try googleing it, its there ;)

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by faileas

9. Of course lots poli sci majors are hackers...it's not like they have jobs. har har har

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by DrPepper

10. i like it and to pretorious its an easy 2 lirn

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by alex

11. wow this guy is obviously a totally ignorant faggot if he thinks social science majors can't understand H4x0Rzin'. i'm a poli sci major and i take offense to this broad generalization.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by sco sci maj

12. Yeah, all of the data in the screen shot is fake. Don't want one of you to pwn me. :) I took a real capture and changed all of the data a little.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Irongeek

13. "to bad I do not know php.... :(" Thats the point of hackaday and purist hacking in general. You dont know something so you either have to go find out who does and see if they'll share or find out yourself. PHP isn't a bad language to start with, its not quite as intense as an OO language, its readily testable with a web browser, the documentation is pretty good, and its easy to make the output pretty with HTML.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by nevarmore

14. does anybody have a link to a windows binary? sourceforge seems to be having some database trouble.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by oscinis

15. Very cool, and good way to show who realy is sent over your net/wireless connection..... P.S. pretorious : PHP is as easy to read and this one is very well commented... Have a go

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by bofh

16. Hmm. That iron geek admin link is a fake. It goes no where. Interesting way of logging who is looking closely tho.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Hal Hockersmith

17. You don't need to know PHP to be able to use this.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by riscphree

18. "to bad I do not know php.... :(" Thats the point of hackaday and purist hacking in general. You dont know something so you either have to go find out who does and see if they'll share or find out yourself. PHP isn't a bad language to start with, its not quite as intense as an OO language, its readily testable with a web browser, the documentation is pretty good, and its easy to make the output pretty with HTML.

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by nevarmore

19. Very cool, and good way to show who realy is sent over your net/wireless connection..... P.S. pretorious : PHP is as easy to read and this one is very well commented... Have a go

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by bofh

20. to bad I do not know php.... :(

Posted at 3:06PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by pretorious

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