ZeroDayExile.com is back! Nice sleek looking security forums from Tully. Come join us to learn cool tricks and computer security techniques, contribute code, and teach us something new too!

After our latest Taming the Electron show, I was completely inspired by Fixer to modify my laptop. It’s a DELL D620 with many wireless cards in and out of it. I purchased 2 wireless antennas from WiFiLink The DELUXE245-5PLUS This seem very simple, but did in fact boost my range (for RX at least) by almost 3 times. Here is an image I took of the two cards with and without the antennas so you can clearly see the difference.

They were only 14 dollars USD and shipped really fast (2 days total from ordering) right from Texas. Thanks for the tip Fixer!

I drilled 2 tiny holes in the top case and routed the tiny antenna cables right down into the LCD panel case and right past the hinges into the chassis of the laptop. There was a fair amount of of antenna cable which made the job easier. My next modification/upgrade will be to get the SR71e Mini PCIe card from Ubiquity. This will increase the RX / TX extremely as the mW power goes up. The only downfall will be that it will consume a bit more power from the laptops battery. I currently have 2 mini PCIe slots in the d620 that I can easily use for 2 SR71e cards.

The SR71e has an Atheros AR9280 chip, which runs off of the Ath9k driver (which I built right into WNLA3). The kernel I used for the live disk is new enough to support packet injection too, according to Aircrack-ng.org. With a higher powered card, we are excited to see the injection rates and ranges in the lab!

Oh, and the antenna’s fold downwards too, so you can put it back into your bag:

This episode features 2 guests that use Wireless on a daily basis in their profession, Fixer and Tully. It contains tons of great information from Fixer who is very professional, knows his stuff, and is willing to teach us. That is a perfect example of what we would want WeakNet Labs to be; willing to teach. If you are a beginner to wardriving, wifu, wifi hacking, etc, -> This show is for you!
The episode will be aired Sunday Feburary 28th on Cacti Radio cactiradio.com So join us on Sunday!

~Douglas.

Finally, the paper I have been talking about is done! http://weaknetlabs.com/multimedia/papers/android.pdf I followed it all the way through and it all works fine, as long as you have Eclipse installed already. Installing it and setting it up with WeakNet Linux for Android Development is actually quite simple and will be yet another tutorial for the future.  Once you have this installed, making applications for Android is very simple – finding good documentation for hasty people who don’t know Java – is hard.  This paper mashes all of those considerations into a heap of easy to follow directions to get you coding apps that play sounds, change layouts when screen layout is changed, show images, make buttons, make image buttons, backgrounds and more!  You don’t need to know Java!

I wrote this document out of my Hotel room, so of it seems a bit weak, please feel free to Email me.  WeakNetLabs [at] Gmail [dot] com OR Douglas [at] WeakNetLabs [dot] com

Taming the Electron Episode 3 is in the works!  Yes, this episode will be about Wireless hacking, our recent android work, and more Drum and Bass music.  Stay posted for more news as the show progress moves on.  We apologize for the HUGE delay, but due to acts of nature on the Lab, we have been forced to stop for a while.  Thanks again to all who have commented with us and left us E-Love – We E-Love you back!

Thanks again for stopping by, we will have more news soon!

Yesterday, WNL made this:

It’s an Atari Punk Console project from MAKE Magazine, which I actually bought from HackPGH: MAKE Magazine APC and was a great way to learn about soldering and fitting the electronics into a project case. After the Lab was destroyed I had to replace a lot of electronic solid state components, tools, and more that were in a tool case that I started collecting to start making Hardware for WNL. I even had an Arduino that I was writing small code for (which I have yet to replace). So expect to see more cool hardware coming out from us.

Life in the Hotel: sucks. It was nice for a while, but now the Pool is broken and I get really bored at night. It will still be a long time before the Lab is reconstructed, soon I will post pics. The scent of smoke is still so strong on the third floor that sometimes when I walk up there to inventory things or what have you, I get spooked like the place is still on fire!

The Android Whitepaper is done, and I will be uploading it soon, I am still making some finishing touches. I followed along with it all the way through after I wrote it to make sure it all works and that I didn’t leave anything out, so expect to see that soon!

Thanks again for all your E-Love! thanks steenkypeet, Tully, Steve, CypheR, P3nt3st, RBCP, Altalp, and OKCgeek. Thanks to everyone who sent E-Love!

~Douglas.

Yeah, this on is now in the market as well. All of these apps are still in BETA stages and I am a newb at Java, so be easy on the comments, please?
I will posting a good information and easy to follow tutorial on my web blog (www.trevelyn.com)coming soon, so be sure to follow our RSS feeds!! Thanks!

Yup! It’s a simple Blue Box app.  It’s free, so just dl it in the Android Market.  I also have a Red Box application coming soon too and will post back once it is released.  Have fun.  Original post: http://www.phonelosers.com/index.php?topic=4716.0

Please rate it if you download it!

I uploaded our first Android app and left a few sneak peeks of Catchme-NG! for Android on the Catchme-NG! web page.

It simply plays the stream for the current episode of Taming The Electron from our web server. Please download it and check it out and rate it! It’s free!
Despite what has happened to the Lab recently, I will be creating a new episode for TtE for next Sunday.

This is my first attempt at coding in Java for Android. Before this, I never touched Java and I plan on not doing it much after! I have a few more apps I will be releasing into the Android Market including apps for PLA (PhoneLosers of America) almost identical to those I released on the Nintendo DSi.

I apologize for charging $1 USD for Catchme-NG!, this is simply to help me rebuild what was destroyed by the fire, as from what my insurance company says seems pretty bleak.

Thank you all for your comments and support over the last 2 weeks, i greatly appreciate the support!

~Trevelyn.

At around 6:45am on Thursday January 28th, I was aroused by my girlfriend who smelled smoke. I ran into the lab and saw the ceiling fan was missing and the ceiling had a large hole with flames in it. The room above had an electrical fault with set the whole room on fire. Firemen put the fire out, but the lab (my home) was destroyed. Insurance says it will be months before I can move back in and that most of the units in the server rack were not covered as they had a “data processing” limit of $1,500. Sadly, we were just about to release software for Google Android and we were head on in our new show Taming the Electron. I apologize to those who actually relied on our servers for shells and storage. We have suffered a huge loss, even though we made it out of the emergency alive. I buried three pets 2 days ago. WeakNet was my life, my life’s work and my proudest investment. To stand in the snow and watch things get destroyed by fire and water was something that will probably haunt me forever.
This can only make us stronger and we will not stop releasing media and software. Please stay posted and watch our RSS feeds, even if we have long delays. Thank you all.

~Trevelyn

We are now live! Bask in the glory of our new, sleek looking website! If anyone finds any bad links, please feel free to let us know. Thank you for coming!

Episode 2 of Taming The Electron is now available! Thanks for listening in on CactiRadio.com Also there’s a new article on Malware Removal on my TechWebBlog: http://trevelyn.com

Our website is getting a new make over as well. We will host our own RSS again, but will be continuing using our Twitter account. Th switch will allow people to be more interactive with the site by posting comments and suggestions, and over all it should just be easier for me to maintain. Before, I would manually update everything!