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So there’s this thing called Aardvark, it’s a nice concept. It’s a networking tool like no other. You are connected to virtually everybody on the net through this (of course everybody who has in some way registered for this service). The idea is that everybody signs up, adds aardvark to either their gtalk list or on twitter or what not, and then classifies what they know about and what they are good at. Whenever any member has any query in any category, they just post a question and everybody who knows stuff in that category, gets asked that. So this way, anybody in the world, irrespective of whether he knows you or not, can help you with the answer if he/she knows it. For example if somebody wanted to know which is the best F1 team and asked that question, people like me who know about F1, would get the question and would rightly say that it is McLaren Mercedes and there would be peace in the world again. I’d recommend you give it a whirl sometime. I meant Aardvark, well a whirl in the McLaren Mercedes wouldn’t be too bad either.

I use this on gtalk, and one of the topics that I get questions on sometimes is “technology”. A couple of days ago, I got this -

(Aardvark) Help someone with a question about *Technology*
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aardvark@vark.com Hi Abhinav, Cameron F./19/Indiana,US just asked a question I think you migh...
Oct 20 (3 days ago)
Hi Abhinav,

Cameron F/19/Indiana,US just asked a question I think you might be able to answer,

"Can you sniff for packets using a wireless bridge? (DD-WRTv24)"

To answer, just reply to this message, and I'll forward your email along to Cameron.

Or, if you know someone who might be able to answer, send them this referral

If I don't hear from you soon, I'll ask someone else -- but you can answer anytime.

- Aardvark


I was intrigued by this question, and having some small amount of knowledge in this field, I decided to help 19 yr ol Cameron F from Indiana USA.
I’m sure my intelligent readers can figure out which part of the sentence was the determining factor. So I replied –

Reply

Any device in the network can sniff packets using a sniffer. I am not sure exactly what you want to do here, but my understanding is that you want to sniff packets using a wireless medium. As far as my understanding goes it doesn't matter which port of your machine you use to capture the packets for the sniffer, it will work. Do revert to me if your objectives are not as understood by me, i'll see if I can help you further.

I was really interested in helping dear Cameron who by now had managed to conjure a number of images in my head; I wonder why she never liked to wear a lot of clothes.

Soon enough, I got -

Cameron says:

"I'm looking for wireless passwords with my router, then I'll use aircrack to crack the passwords. But I just don't know how to "sniff" for the packets"

To respond, just reply to this message, and I'll forward your email along to Cameron.

- Aardvark


Well now I don’t know what makes it for the rest of you, I mean I don’t know what you guys (n girls as well) get your kicks out of, but a bad girl is all daddy needs. Imagine a 19 yr ol (barely legal) female asking you to help her crack passwords. That’s like the dream of every electronics engineer. Sure my dreams don’t stop there, but let’s ignore that bit. Imagine somebody like Sienna Miller (as in the baroness in the GIJOE movie) coming with a gun in one hand and a laptop in another, and saying in a husky voice -

"I'm looking for wireless passwords with my router, then I'll use aircrack to crack the passwords. But I just don't know how to "sniff" for the packets"

“Sniff the packets for me now or I’ll blow you duodenum into 65536 pieces”.

Oh just imagining it would give any techie a semi. Yes that’s how disgusting we are. Now I don’t want you guys to think of me as a despo or something. In fact I’m probably the most decent guy you could meet (in this respect), no kidding!! (probably for the first time in this blog). However as I said, the whole prospect of a young little password cracking nymph (hopefully) in tight leather was a little too much for me. So I poked around a bit, and it turned out that Cameron had registered onto aardvark via facebook, and had allowed users access to the facebook page. Check it out.

Yes!! Yes!!, you guys can laugh all you want, but you must admit that it was rather cruel of the universe to conspire in this manner against me. All of a sudden I don’t like this Cameron much either. Come to think of it she was probably why I jumped to conclusions.


Moral of the story – you did not really expect morals from me did you???