macfidelity

Seit gestern gibt es u.a. bei macupdate wieder einen neuen KisMac Build.

Wem der Name nichts sagt:

KisMAC is an open-source and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler/iStumbler/NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.

KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards - Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink support is in development. All of the internal AirPort hardware is supported as well.

Hier im Blog findet sich auch eine alte Anleitung zum Thema, jedoch sollte diese deutlich zu alt sein um dem aktuellen Stand noch im Detail zu entsprechen.

Und um Vater-Staat zufriedenzustellen der Hinweis: dies ist nichts für deutsche User.

Christina Hornung has published a Mac OS X Leopard native Wireshark Installer Package on this website.

It is based on GTK, so you dont need X11.

He offers builds for PPC, Intel. Tiger releases are available too. So grab them….

Some basic informations about WireShark from wiki:

Wireshark is a packet sniffer computer application. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. In June 2006 the project was renamed from Ethereal due to trademark issues.

The functionality Wireshark provides is very similar to tcpdump, but it has a GUI front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network (usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by putting the network card into promiscuous mode.

Wireshark uses the cross-platform GTK+ widget toolkit, and is cross-platform, running on various computer operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Wireshark is free software.

According to the main developer of KISMAC, he stopped development out of the following reason:

“There has not been a lot of time for KisMAC lately. However the motivation for this drastic step [lies] somewhere different. German laws change and are being adapted for ‘better’ protection against something politicians obviously do not understand. It will become illegal to develop, use or even posses KisMAC in this banana republic [i.e., Germany].”

and continues…

With the introduction of  �202c German politicians proved their complete incompetence. Law in Germany: possession of child pornography - two years imprisonment. Distribution of security software is half as bad. Even worse politicians still believe in the successful ban of digital information, obviously not reckoning globalization.
We are heading straight to a country I do not want to be living in.

KisMAC will live on. Different people. Different country. Same “threat” to national security.

Damn, i hate news like that.