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Comment They messed with it! (Score 1) 142

The drop wasn't near tall enough to watch the thinning of the drop tail, and you can see they messed with it to try and get it - they raised the armature holding the funnel after it had dropped causing it to sheer off under the funnel and plop to the side. If they had allowed it to fall further I imagine there would be a tapered very long, stringy, wispy filament.

Comment Re:Apple iOS (Score 1) 242

WPA handshake/crypto is done by hash of SSID+phrase, there is no need to store the original phrase but it is, as far as I can tell, for end-user convenience when changing your AP's SSID and not having to rekey the passphrase. Though on the client side I can't think of a reason for it... In the end, though, the hash can be considered the new passphrase but not exactly human-readable.
Granted "reversible" is redundant when talking about encryption, I never implied a hash was reversible.

Comment Apple iOS (Score 5, Interesting) 242

While not storing cleartext, they do store your WiFi passwords in a reversible encryption. If using WPA I think they should just store the ssid:phrase hash instead of keeping the phrase. WEP can't be helped... Anyhow, Apple stores all passwords in their keychain and this is easily snooped. Jailbroken iOS devices can get "WiFiPass" to reveal all the AP & passwords its ever connected to. It's handy when I pass my device to an AP owner to "privately" enter their password but I want to associate more devices, I just load that program and see what it was and do it myself.

Comment Re:Let me get this straight (Score 1) 125

I used to demo this all the time with open wifi traffic. Tis trivial. Cookies should use session IDs that expire, and tie to a browser's useragent (though this is easily spoofed, its just another layer). I used to also reference the IP somehow but this causes issues with mobile and DSL.

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