---
title: "Hacking Weekend"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2009/02/hacking-weekend/"
date: "2009-02-15T20:05:33Z"
tags: ["Cybersecurity","Desktop","Hacking","Linux","Version Control","WiFi"]
categories: ["Commentary","Instructional"]
---

So, I’ve been experimenting over the weekend with [Backtrack 4](http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html). My… Lord….

Times have changed, it used to be that if you wanted to mess with WEP you have to go thru a dozen intermediate stages. [wesside-ng](http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=wesside-ng) makes life so much simpler.30 minutes, fully automated.

What i had done previously was [manual](http://www.neophob.com/serendipity/index.php?%2Farchives%2F62-WEP-Cracking-with-Aircrack.html) airodump-ng, aireplay-ng with arp attacks, and then shifting the caps onto my big box to crack inside of 10 seconds, pity is the packet capture on a quiet network can take a day.

Also, if you cant be assed with the whole Backtrack thing. the whole thing can be swiped from the subversion repo

```
svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk/ aircrack-ng
```

Its been a long day.