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CCP, the makers of EVE Online, announced that over 70 accounts have been banned because of a particular game exploit. The exploit is more than two years, some say it dates back to 2004 or 2005. Supposedly a player owned station aka ( POS ) had an exploit where the moon mining would generate minerals over and over again creating a huge ammount of income for the player exploiting the bug.
CCP has shown once again zero tolerance for cheating by banner more than 70 accounts.

The iPhone 3G OS 2.2 phone has been hacked. The 2.2 OS now has the jailbreak freedom given to use by the iPhone dev team once again.

Just like Linux sets you free, so too does the PwnageTool and QuickPwn sets both iPhones and first-gen iPod Touch free to run all the software you could poke an iPhone-shaped stick at, while enjoying the fruits of Apple’s App Store labour.

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OMG OMG I can’t wait for this game to come out. The second round of beta invites went out this week bring us closer and closer to a retail release. Darkfall is going to blow all games out of the water, at least for those that are PVP fans. Even Age of Conan have ruined their PVP system, hopefully the people over at Darkfall won’t make the same mistake.

Complete custom crafting will enable you to make unique items based on your recipes. The market will be 100% player driven, and PVP will be allowed everywhere. Your corpse can be looted making this a PVP MORPG much like EVE except in the fantasy world.

EVE Online launched their new expansion, Quantum Rise, yesterday expanding the game even more.

The new expansion sports a few speed nurfs, ads a new ship for the carebears, and changes a bunch of modules. The most noted module changes are the MWD / Warp Scram feature where a Scram will now disable the MWD. The speed nurf basically gives missiles a chance to hit ships, taking signature radius more into effect.

The latest rumor for the next expansion are pretty exciting. Rumor is, you’ll be able to do full ship customization with over 3000 possible ship configurations per ship. You’ll need 5 base ship modules to make your ship with tons of the different base modules available.

Other features talked about were planet exploration and habitation and walking in stations.

Recently I have been on a deployment for the US Army, heading to Iraq. Instead of using my internal wireless card I’ve been using a Hawkings USB wifi adapter, the one with the removable antenna. So far I have been able to get Internet where no one else could. I can see 10 wifi spots where the rest of my guys can only see a couple. Basically I run a USB extension cable outside my window with the Hawkings cards attached to it.

So, Hawkings seems to be a pretty good brand of wifi network adapters. I just wanted to pass that along.

#include 

// this program uses brute force hacking to decrypt a file
// encrypted using the standard "crypt" command in UNIX. It
// assumes that the key is a 4 ASCII character key which
// contains only characters a to z and numbers 0 to 9. The
// decrypted file is stored in temp.txt each time and if the
// first 3 characters match [a-z0-9] then its stored in the
// file named decryptedfile%key%.txt, where %key% is the key
// used for that particular decryption.
int main(int argc, char *argv[])	{
	if(argc!=2)	{
		printf("Usage: BruteForceHacker encrypted_filename");
		exit(1);
	}
	int i,j,k,l,w,x,y,z;
	int keybase[36];	// contains the characters a-z and numbers 0-9
	for(i=0;i<26;i++)
		keybase[i] = i+97;
	for(i=26;i<36;i++)
		keybase[i] = i+22;

	char command[50], key[5];	// command contains the crypt command each time around
								// key contains the key each time around

	// looping which takes care of all possible combinations of characters in the keybase
	for(w=0;w<36;w++)
	  for(x=0;x<36;x++)
	    for(y=0;y<36;y++)
	      for(z=0;z<36;z++)	{
		key[0] = keybase[w];
		key[1] = keybase[x];
		key[2] = keybase[y];
		key[3] = keybase[z];
		key[4] = '\0';
		printf("%s\n",key);
		sprintf(command,"crypt %s < %s > temp.txt",key,argv[1]);
		//printf("%s\n",command);
		system(command);	// the decrypted characters are placed in temp.txt

		// reading the decrypted file
		char decryptedtext[1000];
		char onechar[1];
		int dtptr = 0;

		FILE *fp;
		fp = fopen("temp.txt","r");
		while(1)	{
			if(fread(onechar,1,1,fp)==0)
				break;
			decryptedtext[dtptr++] = onechar[0];
		}
		fclose(fp);

		int flag;
		// checking whether the first 3 characters of the decrypted file contains english characters only
		for(i=0;i<3;i++)	{
			flag = 0;
			for(j=0;j<36;j++)	{
				if(decryptedtext[i]==keybase[j] || decryptedtext[i]==' ')	{
					flag = 1;
					break;
				}
			}
			if(flag==0)	{
				flag = 2;
				break;
			}
		}
		if(flag!=2)	{// there was no mismatch
			printf("\n\ngotcha!\t\t%s\n",key);
			char movecommand[40];
			// store the possible decrypted file in decryptedfile%key%.txt
			sprintf(movecommand,"mv temp.txt decryptedfile%s.txt",key);
			system(movecommand);
		}
	      }
}