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Mesh 0.987 Alpha update

[AndrewMacPherson]

Hey guys,

Sorry for the long delay on the mesh update, but we have been REALLY busy our side -- and i also managed to lose a bunch of mesh features when i overwrote my old version with the newer one (i know, i know, use svn ). But i recently got a query about how to get Mesh to pickup foreign characters in names (NER within mesh) and its a pretty simple(quick) fix.

This will update Mesh's NER to include the following characters so that you can pickup Firstname Lastname combo's with these characters:

Code:

À,Á,Â,Ã,Ä,Å,Æ,Ç,È,É,Ê,Ë,Ì,Í,Î,Ï,Ð,Ñ,Ò,Ó,Ô,Õ,Ö,×,Ø,Ù,Ú,Û,Ü,Ý,Þ,ß,à,á,â,ã,ä,å,æ,ç,è,é,ê,ë,ì,í,î,ï,ð,ñ,ò,ó,ô,õ,ö,ø,ù,ú,û,ü,ý,þ,ÿ

You can either easily update your current client by going to http://www.paterva.com/web4/index.php/client/mesh

Or you can manually hack your old client (for those of you who have already added stuff):

Open ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random>.{default/dev}/extensions/mesh@paterva.com/chrome/content/functions.js

And replace the line:

Code:

new Array("NER",'[A-Z]{1}[a-z]{3,15}[, ][A-Z]{1}[a-z]{3,15}([, ]?[A-Z]{1}[a-z]{3,15})?',"SillyNER"),

With

Code:

new Array("NER",'[A-Z\xC0-\xFF]{1}[a-zA-Z\xC0-\xFF]{3,15}[, ][A-Z\xC0-\xFF]{1}[a-zA-Z\xC0-\xFF]{3,15}([, ]?[A-Z\xC0-\xFF]{1}[a-zA-Z\xC0-\xFF]{1}[A-Z\xC0-\xFF]{1}[a-zA-Z\xC0-\xFF]{3,15})?',"SillyNER"),

Should sort you out, lemme know if there are any issues.

-AM

[doppelganger]

so, CTRL+SHIFT+M is the control sequence for merging windows within firefox.  It appears this needs to be disabled for Mesh to work.  How do you do this or could mesh be configured to allow the end user to set their own key sequence?

thanks,
dop

[AndrewMacPherson]

Hi Dop,

It is possible another addon/plugin is using the same key sequence (although my firefox - 3.6 doesn't seem to have it).

However you can do it manually via View->sidebar->Maltego Mesh to show it.

I hope this helps

-AM

[doppelganger]

Most appreciative.  I didn't look at the sidebar option.  I'm running 3.6 with Tab Mix Plus, which may be doing the CTRL+SHIFT+M.  I checked to see if it could be disabled but there are only 2 options, none of which are to disable that feature.

So, a new feature for Mesh might be to allow the end user to configure the key sequence so that if there are other "bad" plugins that already snagged that key sequence Mesh users could get around it.

Thanks again for the alternate way to get the sidebar up.

Doppelganger