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  1. Old Quickcams seem to work well for this. by Myself · · Score: 3, Informative · on Digital Eyepieces for Microscopes?

    I bought a Connectix Color Quickcam 2, back before Logitech bought the product line, when such things cost a week's wages. I quickly discovered that the ball could be opened with a paperclip, and after unscrewing the lens housing, the infrared filter could be removed. This gave the unit phenomenal "night vision", and soon I added an IR LED to the camera's housing, powered from the 5v lead in the cable. (Those who attended Rubi-Con 1 probably remember this.)

    That's just the beginning of the fun. After opening the Quickcam case, you'll find that the lens barrel unscrews completely, exposing the bare CCD. This makes it easy to mount in all sorts of optical projects. Mount it in your favorite telescope for astral or terrestrial viewing. Some folks have even placed negatives and microfilm directly against the CCD for contact imaging. I haven't personally played with a microscope application but it should work just fine for that too.

    A bit of quick Googling will turn up plenty of Quickcam modification links. But, why are webcams an option if you need Composite or S-video output?

  2. neat stuff by mossmann · · Score: 1 · on Swiss Researchers Exploit Windows Password Flaw

    This sounds like the method I saw demonstrated at Rubi-Con 2002. This demonstration by Jon Erickson was very impressive and attacked traditional crypt(3) Unix password hashes. Use MD5 passwords!

  3. Sounds like it might be quite educational... by Myself · · Score: 2, Funny · on MacHack 18 Just Weeks Away

    Unlike certain other conferences held in Dearborn.

  4. slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Live From Rubi-Con 5!
    heard from beginning of Beat the geeks from one of the speaker peeps

    ...oh, we got slashdotted??...FUCK!!!

  5. GOBBLES by scubacuda · · Score: 1 · on Live From Rubi-Con 5!
    On the speakers page it lists GOBBLES as one of the speakers on honeypots.

    Wired reported that the GOBBLES group posted a bogus security advisory regarding the RIAA contracting the hacking group to develop a "hydra-like computer worm that has already spread widely by exploiting security vulnerabilities in several popular music programs." (/. thread here)

    Thanks for the wakeup call, GOBBLES. :)

  6. GOBBLES by scubacuda · · Score: 1 · on Live From Rubi-Con 5!
    On the speakers page it lists GOBBLES as one of the speakers on honeypots.

    Wired reported that the GOBBLES group posted a bogus security advisory regarding the RIAA contracting the hacking group to develop a "hydra-like computer worm that has already spread widely by exploiting security vulnerabilities in several popular music programs." (/. thread here)

    Thanks for the wakeup call, GOBBLES. :)

  7. hmmm by sickboy_macosX · · Score: 1 · on CEE2003: A One-Vendor Trade Show
    I think trade shows are going away,

    Apple pulling out of MacWorld Comdex Having Record Low Numbers

    I think in the next 5 years or so there will be no more trade shows just because of the lack of revenue. Dont get me wrong their will still be Convenentions like Defcon and Rubi-Con but I think the trade shows will be gone...so get your free schwag now!

  8. Re:Popping In to Give You the URLs: by larsu · · Score: 1 · on Remembering the BBS

    Jason Scott rules. He's making a documentary on BBS's (the URL he gave in the parent, www.bbsdocumentary.com). I met him at Rubi-con a few months ago, and he was possibly one of the most interesting people there (no small feat ;). I know I'll certainly watch the finished piece. I don't know that it'll be interesting to John Q. TVviewer, but what the hell. Computers are cool now.

  9. The big five remote display technologies by mossmann · · Score: 1 · on The State of Remote Desktops?
    • The X Window System
    • Windows Terminal Services
    • Citrix MetaFrame
    • Tarantella Enterprise 3
    • VNC
    Probably the thing that would meet your needs the most is Tarantella, though it isn't cheap. It acts like a gateway, allowing applications that run on a wide variety of back end servers to display over a lightweight network protocol with a Java client.

    I work for a distributor of thin client and remote display software and hardware and am a Tarantella instructor. I'm also giving a presentation on all five of these systems at Rubi Con in April. Feel free to email me privately for further discussion.

  10. Re:Well, by friscolr · · Score: 4, Informative · on Drive-By Hacking in London
    If that was the case then it wouldn't be possible to so fully exploit these networks.

    walk around town with laptop in backpack then go somewhere to see what's been found - like an internet cafe, which is also useful for probing the network in question (like probing their network from the outside to find what router to spoof - determine this based off the ips in the tcpdumps from the walk) - here's what i've found

    most of the unencrypted networks found will have nice tcpdumps chock full of arp requests, novell and nt broadcast messages. can tell you a lot about the network in question.

    if you can find a discrete location close to the building in question then you have your entry point. of course cops dont really know what you're doing anyways (though they give some real wierd stares at 3am) so you might be safe. spoofing the router is generally wasy, gaining external access should be fine, sometimes they're real kind and leave a dhcp server accessible for you. but either all these places have taken the time to setup some real nice honeypost or they're real.

    i'm giving a talk about this at rubi-con, plus my webstie has more info, not that i've done anything like this, of course.