This of course leads to the question what Mr. Mueller wants to achieve by storing every single IP connection of every single individual that uses an ISP from the United States ? Is not the whole thing a complete waste of resources and time compared to the minimal gain ? What about the protection of minors then, this should be a valid point, don’t you think ?

You can only record something that is happening in the very moment. You then need to analyze the data and come to a conclusion. Does this help the minor before the lawbreaking ? Not very likely, don’t you think ? This could only work if someone knows where to look at in this incredible heap of data. This leads of course to the fact that the data can only be used to find out what really happened. Yes, that is past tense.

The crime already happened. No way to prevent it this way.

The European Union already launched a data retention law that forces every ISP to record online activities of their customers and store the records between 6 and 24 months. The reason was again to fight terrorism.

Now some politicians hold speeches where they want to use those information for finding out about other crimes as well, not only terroristic ones. You’ve downloaded a song from emule ? You went to a website that is forbidden in the country you are living in ? Music Industry would love to have the opportunity to search the data for people who traded music over the internet.

I just want to say that I’m against crime on the internet, against terrorism, against the abuse of minors and many other things on the internet. But I’m also against stupid laws by politicians who do not understand the concept of the internet and try to justify everything that removes rights from the people with the word terrorism.

Your privacy is at stake here. Fight for it, with everything that you have.

The most interesting fact about those laws ? Guess who is paying for them.. Yeah right, you are..

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The FBI method relies on the following tools: Kismet and Aircrack. Both can be found on Linux live cds such as knoppix.

Do the following if you have the tools available:

1. Run Kismet to find your target network. Get the SSID and the channel.
2. Run Airodump and start capturing data.
3. With Aireplay, start replaying a packet on the target network. (You can find a ‘good packet’ by looking at the BSSID MAC on Kismet and comparing it to the captured packet’s BSSID MAC)
4. Watch as Airodump goes crazy with new IVs. Thanks to Aireplay.
5. Stop Airodump when you have about 1,000 IVs.
6. Run Aircrack on the captured file.
7. You should see the WEP key infront of you now.

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