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For how awesome Google Voice is, we're surprised we haven't seen this before. [Steve] is using Google Voice to run commands on just about any Linux box. Google Voice doesn't have an official API, and existing unofficial APIs weren't up to snuff for [Steve]'s project. He ended up writing his own that checks his unread message inbox every minute and looks for new text messages beginning with the … [Read more...]
A pentesting dropbox is used to allow a pentester to remotely access and audit a network. The device is dropped onto a network, and then sets up a connection which allows remote access. As a final project, [Kalen] built the Rogue Pi, a pentesting dropbox based on the Raspberry Pi. The Rogue Pi has a few features that make it helpful for pentesting. First off, it has a power on test that … [Read more...]
[Ricard Dias] wrote in to tell us about his guide for developing Linux applications on a Mac. He really enjoys the development environment provided by XCode, and it doesn't take much to make it work as an all-in-one solution for Linux development. The real trick here is the use of SSH to access a Linux environment. In this example he uses Ubuntu running as a virtual machine, but also mentions … [Read more...]
[Russ] was lucky enough to get his hands on a deeply discounted HP TouchPad, and after hearing about the huge bounty being offered for getting Android up and running on the device, he decided to poke around and see if he could make some headway. He started off by making a full backup copy of his file system using a tool HP has on their WebOS site, just in case anything unfortunate happened to … [Read more...]
Gather round and hear the story of how a hacker outsmarts a criminal. [Zoz] was robbed and they got his desktop computer. Gone, right? Nope. Because of a peculiar combination of his computer's configuration, and the stupidity of the criminal, he got it back. He shares the tale during his Defcon 18 talk (PDF), the video is embedded after the break. [Zoz's] first bit of luck came because he had … [Read more...]
The Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar aims to make all of your stuff available online. It serves that purpose but sometimes you just want more options for controlling your hardware and running some scripts. [Eric Cooper] put together a guide for installing OpenWRT on the Dockstar by building your own kernel and loading it onto the internal storage. Once you have a kernel that will play nicely with the … [Read more...]
Alright, so Doom isn't actually running on the key chain itself, but rather a BifferBoard: a small 150MHz x86 containing ethernet, serial, and even USB with only one watt of power consumption! The project is to show how easy it is to program the BifferBoard and getting it talking to other hackable items - such as the picture key chain for a display. Doom does appear a bit slow, but [Biff] figures … [Read more...]
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