Download reaver.apk

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Like many other so-called "Penetration" tools, not many are available for the Android platform.

Reaver-wps was a tool developed to perform "brute-force" attacks on wireless routers that had been secured using the WPS encryption option that used to be popular on many wireless routers.

This vulnerability was expanded by Stefan Viehböck on his blog .braindump - here is quotes research peforrmed on WPS protected systems. He, and the Google Code page for reaver, make reference to this as a pdf that is supposed to explain the attack.

However, there is an admission: "On average Reaver will recover the target AP's plain text WPA/WPA2 passphrase in 4-10 hours". This is for a now seldomly used WPS protected access point and on a regular computer, not an Android device.

The reaver.apk or reaver-wps.apk , if they existed, would not present a security risk to computer users.

There are some Android developers that claim to have written such apps. SWifis, Wireless Reaver and Buckynet WifiReaver.

Smart Regenerative Charging (SRC)

Having purchased a 2014 Ford Fiesta Titanium 1.0 EcoBoost I was interested in finding out more about some of the economy features promised by Ford on their website.

I was mainly interested in the Fiesta because of its favourable reviews and that the ST model had been awarded the Top Gear Best "Hot Hatch Award".

While I did not expect the 67+ mpg that was claimed, I did expect great fuel economy.

Although the Ford brochure and other information found on the Ford (UK) website describes the potential economy advantages of the "Start-Stop" technologies and the use of SRC, that is supposed to control the alternator such that it is only in operation when your foot is not on the accelerator and will cut-in and charge during vehicle braking,  it is not made that clear.

The Ford website shows a Silver Calcium battery under the topic "A more efficient way to re-charge your battery", this battery technology is not mentioned and my Fiesta has a Enhanced Flood Battery.

On further research the "Start-Stop" technology needs a different type of battery technology to achieve the 10% increase in fuel efficiency. The EFB technology provides a "Deep Cycle" battery that overcomes the deficiencies inherent in normal lead-acid batteries.

Has anyone else not listened to the new U2 album?

Bono says that he is sorry that their new album was downloaded to thousands of Apple devices whether they wanted it or not.

I haven't listened to it, how about others?

New location

The Technology Muse and tempusfugit.ca are no longer updated from Canada.

All input will be from the Essex/Suffolk border.

Looks like the BBC has finally made get_iplayer fail

The downtime that the BBC were having yesterday, both iPlayer and their main websites, seem to have resulted in get_iplayer failing to even get an index of what the Beeb have on their servers.


Maybe this is just a temporary thing and it will sort itself out but this seems to be a more spectacular failure than I have seen before. Unlike other times when the BBC had made changes resulting in the inability for get_iplayer to download media, this seems to be far worse.