Hackaday Links

May 21, 2005 by 8 Comments

Links

ahh, a beautiful saturday, a beautiful delivery of links for you readers. the next podcast is being worked on and is going well by the way. quality will be the #1 concern from now on in!

someone is good with a tree and a jigsaw! [nick]
hey, kids need hacks too right? [sam]
our man with the spinning cap is selling it [adam]
usb ghost detection fool [superlevel]
hack biometrics with gummi bears! [inh]

if you’re into the hellghast from killzone and have mustard gas laying around, build a gas mask

kicking it oldschool with lockpicking (nice t-shirt) [lobo]
microsoft patch triggers virus attack….what’s that sound? oh it’s me laughing.

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Power Over Ethernet

May 21, 2005 by 15 Comments

Power Over Ethernet

Power over ethernet lets you add a DC voltage source to the unused pairs in your ethernet cable. This power can be used to power devices that are poe compatible by just plugging the cable into them. Other devices can be powered by using a “tap” to break the DC pairs back out of the cable. POE is a good choice for powering devices in remote locations. A router can be placed on a roof right next to its high-gain antenna, reducing signal loss, without having to run a separate AC line. Plugging the DC “injector” into a UPS will keep dedicated VOIP phones functioning during a power outage. Terry Schmidt has written a nice guide covering the theory behind scratch building poe injectors and taps. It also has photos and descriptions of other peoples projects along with tips on how to keep from turning your router into a pile of plastic goo.

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How They Hacked Paris

May 20, 2005 by 19 Comments

paris tmobile

Ugh, I feel dirty just posting a picture of her. The Washington Post has an excellent story about how T-mobile was hacked, which eventually led to Paris Hilton’s account being compromised. I hope you aren’t too surprised when you find out it was just simple social engineering… I mean really simple. No sweet ‘sploits, no DDOS, just an attack at the weakest link of a sprawling corporation: the staff. I hope companies take this article to heart and teach their employees how to be more secure. Of course if your staff hates you you’re still screwed.

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Distributed Bittorrent

May 19, 2005 by 11 Comments

azureus start

The RIAA/MPAA empire has been tearing down tracker sites left and right; making tracker operation a risky proposition. Distributed tracking guarantees the torrents on these sites will be available even when the site tracker is down. Distributed tracking also makes publishing content easier. Instead of posting a .torrent file to a tracker site you can publish to a distributed tracker. Then you just post the .torrent file on your blog/fan site/forum. You don’t even have to go that far. Azureus can generate a “magnet:” link for any bittorrent file it is currently tracking. Anybody can open that link in their Azureus client and the .torrent file will be retreived directly from the database. I think this system will be great for people publishing their original works since they won’t have to provide lots of bandwidth or rely on someone’s flakey tracker. Recently support was added to the official client and many more will probably follow. Azureus explains the magic after the jump. Give it a read if you’re not too busy downloading crappy RotS cam movies. (EDIT: I guess there is a workprint out there, so the quality is probably pretty good)

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WRT SD Card Mod

May 18, 2005 by 13 Comments

wrtsd
I was mildly interested in the serial port mods (add a gps, lcd, serial console), but this is just awesome. Now you can add as much Secure Digital flash storage as you want to your WRT54G. This requires soldering six wires plus a custom driver. The added space could come in really useful for storing logs or large dump files from kismet. You could just plug the thing into the wall and let it sniff packets all day. It could also be a small file server running bittorrent while you’re out of the house with your laptop. Most important of all: SD support means you’ll be able to share memory cards with your Playstation 3 and that’s a top priority right?

[thanks darkpadden via LinksysInfo.org]

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