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What Is Pack Searching?
As stated in the introduction, pack searching is the act of finding which packs in a box of cards contain certain insert cards, without actually opening the pack of course. Commonly pack searchers are looking for packs which contain a game-used card or an autograph card. Is this actually possible? Yes it’s definitely possible and I will discuss the methods to successfully pack search later in this article.

Hot Packs and Hot Pack Secrets
Typically on Ebay you’ll see sellers offering “hot packs”. These packs will be guaranteed to contain an autograph or a game-used card. Although it may seem impossible that the seller can guarantee such things, these hot packs are actually legit if sold by a reputable seller. If you look at the seller’s feedback you’ll notice a lot of positive feedback for their hot packs. You’re probably wondering how it’s possible for someone to know that a certain insert is in the packs, the answer is that the seller is pack searching.

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You’ll also notice that many sellers offer e-books of Hot Pack Secrets on eBay!

Basically the seller offers an e-book that gives instructions how to pack search so you can find the hot packs yourself. If you purchase one of these off Ebay the seller will send it to you, but having read several of these e-books myself, I would highly suggest staying away from them. The information contained is either old or already very obvious. Hot Pack Secrets should be viewed as a quick money scam. If you want to see for yourself go ahead, sellers usually only charge a few dollars and I’m sure you have wasted money in worse ways before.

How To Pack Search
So now that you know what pack searching is, and you know the ways in which pack searchers are making a business out of it, I’ll explain the methods in which pack searchers operate today.

There are three main methods of pack searching that are used:

• Bend & Twist: Some retail packs of sports cards contain thick cardboard decoy cards inserted to thwart pack searchers, but some products don’t contain decoys at all. For packs that don’t contain decoy cards you can employ the bend & twist method. You simply hold the pack in two hands, each hand holding an opposite corner of the pack, then you bend and twist the pack. After bending and twisting a number of packs you will notice that some will show some resistance to your bending. This means that there is a thicker card in the pack, usually a game-used card. Clearly you want to be careful to bend and twist lightly so you’re not damaging the cards inside the pack. This is the simplest method of pack searching that yields results.
• Fanning: A more successful method of pack searching, and one that can be used on packs that contain decoys is fanning. As the name suggests you are going to fan the cards so you can feel each one. But how can you fan the cards while they are in a sealed pack? This takes some practice but the first step is to push all of the cards to one side of the pack, as far as they can go. Next you want to push each card to the other side of the pack one by one with your thumb. As you push each card you want to feel the thickness with your thumb. Eventually you will feel a card of a different thickness than the rest. It could be a decoy or it could be a game-used card. Feel as many packs as you can and you should be able to differentiate between the decoys and the actual hits.
• Weighing: The previous two methods are really only useful for searching for game-used cards. This next method is not only a much more successful way of pack searching, but will also discover which packs contain autograph cards. As the name implies your going to weigh each pack. To weigh the packs I suggest buying a hand-held portable digital scale. I personally have an Escali hand-held digital scale that measures in .01 grams. Escali digital scales can easily be purchased on eBay!

  
  With precision like that you will be able to differentiate between a pack that has all regular cards in it and a pack that has all regular cards, but one card having an autograph sticker on it. The steps are simple, weigh every pack and observe which packs have the different weights, those packs contain your hits.

Pack Searching Myths
So know that you know how to pack search I’d like to discuss whether pack searching is really all it’s cracked up to be. It sounds almost too good to be true that you can walk into your local Target or Wal-Mart, buy one pack and come out with a game-used card doesn’t it? That’s partly because it is too good to be true, and I’ll tell you why.

• The Odds Are Against You: A typical hobby box of sports cards usually contains an average of four hits. A retail box on the other hand usually contains only one hit, two hits on some products, but never more than that. Assuming you are perfect at pack searching (and if you’re a beginner you won’t be), who’s to say that someone hasn’t come before you and purchased the one pack in the box that contains the hit. To really have a good chance at pack searching you have to search an unopened box. Otherwise you will most likely convince yourself there is a hit in a box that really doesn’t have one and you’ll end up taking home a decoy that tricked you. To make matters worse you’re also up against other pack searchers and shameless kids who will slightly rip open every pack to find the hits.
• How Do The Hot Pack Sellers Do It Then?: After explaining how the odds are really stacked up against you, you’re probably wondering how one person can constantly sell ten hot packs on Ebay. These people are insiders in the industry. They could work for the distribution company that supplies cards to department stores. Or they could own a hobby shop themselves. Whoever the person is, they have the ability to sit down with a box of cards and spend as much time as they need to weigh each pack. Since they have the entire box they know ahead of time how many hits are in each product and can work long and hard to find those hits. These are also people who have a method of getting rid of the non-hit packs, i.e. the distributor bringing them to a store or a hobby shop owner selling the packs to poor customers who think they have a chance at a great hit.
• So I Should Just Buy Hot Packs On Ebay?: Yes and No. If you are simply interested in pulling a game-used card from a pack, hot packs are really great value. If you’re hoping to pull a once in a lifetime hit from a hot pack, you need to think again. Remember, professional pack searchers weigh each and every pack. If they come across a pack that has a patch in it or a similar hit, it will weigh differently from a regular game-used card and the searcher will most likely keep the pack for themselves.

How To Stop Pack Searchers
With everything being said above, I don’t feel that pack searching is a problem that is ruining the hobby as other members of the community will make you believe. Nine times out of ten it only affects retail products and doesn’t make it’s way into the hobby. If you don’t want to have to worry about pack searchers, shop at a local hobby shop, online hobby shop, or card show. You should really be supporting the brick and mortar card shops while they’re still around anyways. Any hobby shop owner who takes part in pack searching will most likely not have a successful business anyways.

If you like the convenience of being able to walk into your local Target-type store and want to curb pack searching, you have options. Lost prevention employees are often bored at work, if you suspect someone is pack searching, try to find a member of lost prevention, they will be more than happy to deal with the culprit. Remember, there is nothing illegal about pack searching. It is similar to testing which piece of fruit is ripe at a supermarket by squeezing each one, the pack searcher is touching each pack to see which one is ripe for the buying. You can fib however and say that the pack search is damaging each piece of merchandise that he touches.

Conclusion
I hope this article was helpful in lifting the ban on speaking about pack searching. It may or may not be a problem, but it happens, and we shouldn’t pretend it doesn’t in hopes that it will cease to happen. There was a lot of information in this article, and there is still a lot that could be said. Feel free to leave comments if you have any questions and I will answer them the best that I can. Thanks for the read! Shout outs to everyone on SportsCardForum and the guys over at The Backstop.

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The tool I use to create my MP3 List is a command line utility called Oidua. Oidua produces MP3 lists that now only has a directory structure but will also say how many files are in an album directory, what is the size of that directory, the total length, and information on the bit-rate the files are ripped at. It comes in two forms, a Windows binary version and also a Python version, so every one should be able to run it on their machine. The basic usage of Oidua is simple:

Usage: oidua.exe [options] …

You just run the executable and tell it where the MP3’s are located. Couldn’t be any easier…if you don’t want to change any of the default options that is. If you do want something different from what is default you are going to have to use some command line switches, and Oidua has 17 of them, many with their own sub-switches. For computer savvy people you can get the exact results you want on the command line using the options, but for people who aren’t very familiar with the command line and couldn’t be bothered looking through all the options there’s a simple way of running Oidua, you can use the graphical front end called Guidua.
Guidua is a Windows only graphical front end written for Oidua. With Guidua anyone can quickly and easily create the perfect MP3 list and not have to get into nitty gritty of the command line options.

As you can see all of the options that can be set for Oidua on the command line can also be set painlessly through Guidua. In the Guidua configuration screen you simply tell Guidua where your Oidua executable resides, which MP3 directories you would like Guidua to use, and which options you want.

Go Further With Oidua:
I like to harness Oidua’s power a little bit further by using Scheduled Tasks in Windows to automatically create MP3 lists for me. All you need to do is take your command line Oidua command, and if you prefer to use Guidua you will see that it gives you the Oidua command line command when you create the list. Take that command and put it into a text file and save it, but rename the extension to .bat. Now you have a script that will create a MP3 list for you. At this point you can go into Scheduled Tasks and create a new task that will run the script at a specified time, my lists are created every Monday while I’m at work.

If you have a website you can even go crazier with your script. I have my script set up so after creating the new MP3 list it will automatically upload the list to my website using the command line FTP command. I always have an updated MP3 list on my website and never have to do a thing to create it and get it on the web.

Oidua and Guidua can both be downloaded from the Oidua Homepage.

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Here is the magic Google search string that you can copy and paste right into Google:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" mp3

The goal of that search string is to find indexes of public directories on the internet that contain mp3’s. Using that search string you will find many pages that look similar to this:

As you can see, we got an index of MP3 files. Now that you’ve seen it, it’s time to understand how the search string works. The “intitle” function tells Google to only show us pages that have certain text in the title bar. Since every index page of a directory says “index of” in the title bar, we want to use the intitle function to do that for us. The “-inurl” function tells Google to NOT display results of pages that have certain text in the URL, we could also use the “inurl” function to only include those pages. We only want to see true directory indexes, not pages that pose as directory indexes. Many of those fake index pages are .html and .htm extensions so we will tell Google not to show us those. Lastly we want to tell Google to search for “mp3″ and “Last modified”. Telling Google to search for “Last modified” helps with finding the indexes because every index has that field, and it should be obvious why we’re adding “mp3″ to our search string.

Now that you understand the search string, you can tweak it to be even more powerful. Let’s say that I want to find a specific album, 50 Cent’s ‘Massacre’. All I would have to do is add some search criteria and if the files exist publicly on the internet, Google has probably indexed them. Here’s my search string.
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" mp3 "50 Cent" massacre

As you can see, I used the search string, checked out a few of the results, and there it was:

You not only can use these advanced Google search string to find virtually any music you want, but find any files on the internet. Let’s say that I want to find some video, let me see if any episodes of The Office are available:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" avi "the office"

I enter my search string, searching for ‘avi’ instead of ‘mp3′, and tell Google to find pages that have “the office” in them. As expected, I immediately find this:

As you can see, episodes of The Office and Scrubs in .avi format ready to download for free with a simply Google search. Certainly there are better ways to download music and movies, but this is quick and easy and very interesting if you’re seeing it for the first time.

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• The first step is to download and install the tool we will be using, Cain & Abel. You can download the tool on the Cain & Abel Homepage. Installation is very straightforward.
• For the sake of this tutorial, I will be sniffing for passwords on a wired LAN. I will run Cain & Abel and perform the attack on one computer, and browse the web on another computer so you can see some results. Once Cain is installed, run it. The first thing you will need to do is make sure you’re connected to the network you want to sniff passwords on. Once your machine is connected and you have acquired an IP address on the network you will need to do some configuring in Cain, click the configure button on the menu bar as pictured below.
  
• There are two things you want to do at the configure screen, the first is to select the correct network adapter. You want to select whichever adapter is connected to the network you want to sniff passwords on, you can look at the IP address column to help you. Once you have found the correct adapter, highlight it. The second thing you want to do is make sure “Don’t use Promiscuous mode” is checked off. See the picture below for an example. You can click OK and exit the configuration screen after setting those two things.
  
• Once Cain is configured you can turn on the sniffer, do this by clicking the Start/Stop Sniffer button on the toolbar.
  
• After the sniffer has been activated, click the ‘Sniffer’ tab. Once in the sniffer tab, right-click in the middle of the screen and choose ‘Scan MAC Addresses’.
  
• In the MAC Address Scanner box you can choose to scan all addresses on the network you’re connected to, or you can specify a range, it’s up to you. In the lower section click the ‘All Tests’ check box so the scanner will perform the entire battery of tests on the network. Once you have the settings you want click OK to start the scan.
  


• After the scan is performed you will be presented with a list of computers on the network, it will look like this.
  
• The MAC Address Scanner gave us the IP addresses and MAC addresses of the machines on the network, but not the host names. I personally like to see the host names also. To attempt to resolve the host names, highlight all of the scanned machines, right-click, and choose ‘Resolve Host Name’.
  
• Resolving the host names can take a little bit of time, depending on how many machines you are trying to resolve. Eventually though it will finish and look like this, notice the host names are now filled in.
  
• Now that we have all the target hosts we need, we can click on the ‘APR’ tab at the bottom of the screen to do the last steps needed before we can start this ARP Poisoning attack.
  
• Once you’re in the APR tab you will need to configure which routes you want to poison. To do this, first click anywhere in the top box, and then click on the ‘+’ in the toolbar.
  
• This next screen is where you add the routes you want to poison. Click on the source IP on the left to highlight it, and then highlight the IP’s on the left that you would like to poison the route between. You have to select the routes for one source IP at a time, so select your routes, click OK, and then click the ‘+’ button again to select additional routes. If you are unsure of what to do, go through each IP on the left, and highlight every IP on the right, clicking OK after each one. This will ensure that you are poisoning every possible route and sniffing all possible traffic.
  
• Once you have selected all of your routes, your screen should look something like this:
  
• At this point you can start the ARP poisoning attack, click the ‘Start/Stop APR’ button on the toolbar as pictured below:
  


• Once the attack has been started all there is to do is wait. If the target routes are being used you should begin to see activity in the lower half of the screen as shown below. if you do not see any activity you may want to go back and make sure you performed all the steps, also make sure that you don’t have a firewall running that could block the traffic.
  
• Once you are successfully poisoning routes you can click the ‘Passwords’ tab at the bottom of the screen. This is where sniffed passwords will appear. Since I am performing this attack on myself as a demo, I went to Myspace on the other computer and trued to login. As you can see, the user name, password, and URL have all been captured in clear text. That’s it, a password has been successfully sniffed over the network!
  

Now that you know how to sniff for passwords on wireless and wired networks, here are some closing remarks.

• Modern Intrusion Detection Systems are able to detect ARP poisoning attacks easily. Because of that you shouldn’t try this attack on professional networks that are likely to be using IDS systems.
• Good targets for sniffing passwords are unprotected home wireless networks, public wireless networks like the one’s found at coffee shops, and certain public wired networks like those found at hotels.
• The bottom of Cain And Abel screen says ‘Lost packets’ with a percentage. Typically this will stay very low, if you see this percentage start to rise you should stop the attack because it will eventually cause a DOS attack resulting in the whole network going down.