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@p0et wrote:

I could be wrong but I think I remember Vivek saying he didn’t get as good of results from the Alfa N card as he did from the b/g one.

Anyone else have any experience with the Alfa AWUS036NHR card? I was about to get it when I read that it’s not plug & play with BT 5 (and manual driver installs were a pain) + something about it not…[Read more]

@p0et wrote:

A full suit?!  Damn, I couldn’t do that.  I just can’t think straight and do my job well if I’m not comfortable.  Luckily, they let us wear anything we like (within reason) where I work now.  I tend to get a lot more work done and be more productive in jeans/t-shirt then full suit.

Suddenly I have an image of Casual Friday from Man…[Read more]

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How is DefCon?  I’ve always heard that one is the most popular and everyone talks about it but is it worth the flight, hotel, food, etc.. to go to Vegas just for that?  It seems the cheapest place for me to fly to from here is Vegas.

Luckily DEFCON does not have the heavy price tag of black hat.  So there is that.  Also during tha…[Read more]

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I’m about to submit my training request at work.  So if you’re in my position with the certs I have, what would you do?  

CEHv7 (in person) for $2500 (including exam voucher)
  OR
CPTE  (live virtual training) for $3000 + exam fee

I’m also going to ask about CCNA bootcamp.

Neither. I would shoot for the OSCP. And if your ok wit…[Read more]

@p0et wrote:

My first pick would also be Skull Security.  I’d also recommend:
http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/
http://www.torrentz.com/178f55c67ca0f522831dbc67042a34983e6652f5
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4017231/
http://udayallala.blogspot.com/2011/03/cracking-passwords-4.html (a few in here are good from –=Xploitz=–)

If…

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@p0et wrote:

I could be wrong but I think I remember Vivek saying he didn’t get as good of results from the Alfa N card as he did from the b/g one. 

I was considering getting an Alfa but I checked the connection on my internal Dell wireless 1390 and it’s constantly at 54Mbps so I’ll stick with this one. 🙂  (i was surprised)

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@p0et wrote:

I hate having such a cheap employer and having to do everything out of my own pocket. Can’t wait to hear the reviews about mile2.

Welcome to the club, I am paying everything from my pocket too

@p0et wrote:

  Do you guys have Ethical Hacker Network on your profiles?

There is an EH-Net group on LI you can join. I know a few of us are on it.

@p0et wrote:

lol  That’s what I thought. Thanks guys. 😉

So, what it means is that you should get your CISSP (or C|EH for that matter) and put those CPEs to good use!

And who knows, maybe SANS will get around to using CPEs instead of re-certification. 🙂