[HN Gopher] Bettercap - Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 a... ___________________________________________________________________ Bettercap - Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks Author : punnerud Score : 179 points Date : 2022-12-03 12:59 UTC (10 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | snvzz wrote: | Definitely a pun on Ettercap[0]. | | 0. https://www.ettercap-project.org/ | usr1106 wrote: | Sounds interesting. So far I am mostly happy with Ethereal and | mitmproxy. But maybe better stuff is out there? Experiences from | users? | rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: | Bettercap is very different than Wireshark because it's | specificaly built with attacks in mind and it's not just a | generic packet sniffer. | alanfranz wrote: | In fact bettercap is a very obvious pun on the venerable | ettercap, I suppose. | rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: | Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by | people with very questionable behaviour(do a google search | for Hacking Team company). | dontbenebby wrote: | >Let's not mention ettercap that much, it was built by | people with very questionable behaviour | | I mean, how far are we gonna take this type of logic, | considering the foundations of statistics (eg: Chi- | squared distribution) were invented by eugenicists? :-) | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson#Politics_and_e | uge... | | At least they open sourced the code so it can be used by | good people as well -- it's better to remove the RCEs and | leverage them against your enemies than to keep the | knowledge esoteric so that only the privileged can | attack. | rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: | What is this weird jump to politics, eugenics nazis or | whatever? You're the second person that went there. | | I just wanted people to know that ettercap is a tool | written by people that can't be trusted when it comes to | writing open source software. | | Will you run any tools made public by NSO or any other | company like that??? | anigbrowl wrote: | You said it was built by sketchy people but didn't | explain what people were supposed to conclude from that | (though you have since mentioned 'bugdoors.' So people | projected their own guesses onto it, thinking your moral | terms (bad people) were a clue to the mysterious hidden | subtext. | | You'd have been better off saying 'I don't trust | ettercap, it was built by xxxx and seemingly innocuous | code might exploit obscure vulnerabilities, backfiring | severely on those who try to use it.' | dontbenebby wrote: | > _What is this weird jump to politics, eugenics nazis or | whatever? You 're the second person that went there._ | | Two thirds is a supermajority in most democracies, so | you're the weird one. | | > _Will you run any tools made public by NSO or any other | company like that???_ | | Not only would I be ABSOLUTELY willing to use NSO's code | (or anyone else's) to make a list, check it twice, then | go out into the real world like the hit 1984 action film | "Terminator" if I felt that was necessary to avert loss | of innocent life and I felt that the local police, state | police, federal bureau of investigation, and the national | guard were all refusing to deal with the issue. (Though | I'd do it from a VM so if they try to hack back, I can | just roll back to a known good snapshot and save whatever | they threw at me to possibly sell at a profit to fight | another day. | | The United States of America (where I'm posting from for | now) is a two party presidential republic, not a | multiparty parliamentary democracy, human rights are not | "political", and the mother's menu for abusers in a post | COVID world is to with the program, or get in the ground | with Jeffrey Epstein. | | There is no more " _third way_ ", and if you don't want | some chicken fingers loving autist making comments _you_ | are _choosing_ to _perceive_ as weird on Hacker News, be | the change you want to see in the world and give said | autist something better to do on a Saturday. | | - Greg. | mananaysiempre wrote: | ... That makes the code worse how? | | I'm not going to stop using or talking about Jordan | algebras, say, even though Pascual Jordan was a literal | Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of | the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental | physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise | of the American one). It bears mentioning, certainly, and | subtracts from the scientific merit (among other things) | of the _person_ , but has nothing to do with the | scientific merit of the _notion_. | rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: | >That makes the code worse how? | | I don't trust the authors to have the best intentions | anymore, I would assume there's "bugdoors" they know | about. | | A moot point anyway because ettercap has not been updated | for years. | zweifuss wrote: | > "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant | participant in the destruction of the centuries-old | German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and | the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one)." | | That's an oversimplified account of his role in the Nazi | era. | | https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.8828 | 58 | [deleted] | antegamisou wrote: | I was about to suggest Wireshark until I looked up Ethereal and | discovered it was the former's original name. | | Had no idea in the ~15 years I've been using it!! | usr1106 wrote: | Ah sorry, I was still half asleep when typing the comment. I | wondered why typing Ethereal felt somehow strange. Right, it | has been called Wireshark for a while... | codaphiliac wrote: | Now I feel old | j1elo wrote: | The page about Bluetooth LE [1] shows a video [2] which is part | of an article about hacking of a BT lock, but the link [3] is | broken and doesn't work. It is readable in the web archive [4], | but the archive has lots of broken images. | | It's a shame that this content went away so fast... say what you | want about the typical blogspot or medium blog, but at least they | tend to last longer than some personal websites :-( Can we read | that article elsewhere, has it been made available in other site | and just not updated in the Youtube description? | | [1]: https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/ | | [2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA | | [3]: https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked- | wit... | | [4]: | https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeoh... | sickmate wrote: | https://archive.ph/sh7dE | hyperific wrote: | I want to say that bettercap is at the core of the pwnagotchi | | pwnagotchi.ai | dontbenebby wrote: | Funny name, interesting project ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-03 23:00 UTC)