Time To Go Pro - Penetrate

Time To Go Pro – Penetrate

On 6 februari 2011, in @XDA, Blogs, News, Time To Go Pro, by Noonski

Penetrate QR Code Android Market

Apps are cool, free apps are cooler.

But recognition of good apps with dedication from developers deserve more then just 5 stars in the Market.

The first application I’m covering in this little section I’d like to call “Time To Go Pro” is Penetrate, A.K.A. Penetrate Pro, It’s Pro after dishing out € 1,99 of your hard earned money.

The political correct way to describe Penetrate would be by saying it is a security testing tool for a set of Wireless Routers.

The realistic/honest way of describing Penetrate would be by saying it is a tool to get you Wireless internet access through routers that have not been set up/protected correctly by their owners. Because honestly, most of us have no interest at all what’s going on inside these badly protected networks anyway, we just want faster speeds then those our carriers can provide as at that location at that time. Especially for those people that have a bandwidth limit put on their asses by their greedy telecom carriers, Penetrate can come in handy sometimes.

If your not interested in my screenshots and explanation, jump on to Penetrate’s original site. Or use the QR code above to go grab it from the market.

Let me show you how straightforward this tool works with a few screenshots.

When you start the app it will check if your Wifi is actually enabled and if not it will remind you and enable it for you. You’ll then be greeted with the next screen.

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Since I’ve just gotten the Pro version I can simply go into Settings >> and select “Get Keys From the Web”. If your using the free version of Penetrate, you’ll need to download a Library to your Device (SD card) before you can get the access keys.

As you can see there’s two routers here that can possibly accessed through Wifi.
Let’s tap on the first one…

There’s three possible keys to acces this wireless modem.
And let’s not forget this is only if the Owner of the Modem did not manually change the password into a non default one. Which I honestly rarely encounter.
I tap the first key and Penetrate helps me to the system Wifi settings.
Eeeh you’ve probably done this before (i hope).

Since we are on Android we have Cut And Past out of the Box
Long Press on the password space and choose to Paste.

Connect.
And Presto.

Okay, Okay I was pretty lucky to get it right at the first key.
Sometimes you will need to try the other keys before you get access to the Wifi network.

Well that’s Penetrate in a Nutshell.

Why I went Pro?

Well the developer is from Portugal, so that’s a positive racism +1 for me, don’t argue with your blood and heritage.
I need al the space I can get on my SD to dump as much Music as Possible. So if I can get the keys online instead of having a file of around 50-to-100-MB I choose online.
Most importantly, Diogo Ferreira has been updating Penetrate rigorously and wisely, and not just with silly “BugFixes”. Penetrate is always moving forward and it is rock solid.

Here’s the list of Modem’s/Routers supported by Penetrate.

Thomson
Thomson-Based Routers*
Pirelli Discus
Eircom
DLink
Verizon FiOS (some)
Fastweb (Pirelli & Telsey)
Jazztel_XXXX and WLAN_XXXX
*Ifinitum, BBox, DMax, Orange, SpeedTouch, BigPond, O2Wireless, Otenet.

More info at the OG site: http://underdev.org/penetrate/

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