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Attack Of The Dreamcasts
kevin_conaway writes "A pair of coders are now suggesting that it is possible, with a modified dreamcast system running Linux to sneek into an office building and stick it on a network drop and leave. The dreamcast will then probe for ways to connect to the outside world. They say they have created similar software for iPAQs and a special bootable cdroms for print servers and similar boxes. Just a reminder that are networks need to be as secure on the inside as they should be on the outside. Get the story here."
Someone strolls into the office, notices a dreambox in the corner... and they say "Hmmm, that is normal, I'll just ignore that"... hehe
More likely that they would say "Cool, lets see what game is in it!"
"CPU's Don't make mistakes....They just miss a few cycles sometimes..."
I'm pretty sure that someone would notice a dreamcast system sitting on their server rack. However, if you hide it behind a wall, it could sit there for years!
Wyatt
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
...if someone came into my house and dropped off a dreamcast! :-)
-Derek
Been to Pirate Training School?
Replacing 'our' with 'are' is a very common pirate thing to do. Of course, even that was slightly misspelled since 'arr' is the most correct usage, matey...
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If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
... so I just popped in NFL2K2 and showed the hacker who was boss!!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
All those girl ninjas running around stealthily tucking Dreamcasts under their arms - They weren't trying to steal them. They were trying to deploy them!
Now I understand the tagline... It's thinking...
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
I'd like to see you hide an E10k in the ceiling.
...hacking a company with the Playstation 2 - it can scan 75 million ports a second, 20 million with effects.
I would think much in the same way, a Dreamcast running linux can be used to seriously injure a person, but sneaking up on them and hitting them over the head with it, repeatedly. Of course that's not newsworthy, unless it's a Dreamcast running linux.
sic transit gloria mundi
As soon as I read this story, I jumped up and combed our office for sinister-looking dreamcasts creeping about the floor plugged into network ports.
Luckily, we were safe--THIS time. Those security-sapping plastic mosquitos could hide anywhere though, so maintain constant vigilance!
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Don't worry, being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep in a giant blender.
Most schools require mac address registration lately. You can walk on to the Oberlin campus and just start typing away. Other schools are like that too. Just make sre you wear an abercrombiecostume so to not raise suspicion.
If you mod the box into something black with LEDs, it might not look so out of place. Especially if you tape a while piece of paper with "67...2 Router:Smurphy" to the top (well not look out of place to the peons, anyway). Everyone will be afraid to touch it.
Well, there's the extra humiliation factor... Imagine a bunch of IT boys from different corps going out for a beer:
BOFH1: Yeah, I got 0wn3d today by a massive distributed DOS attack from thousands of zombie machines across the 'net.
BOFH2: Ha! That's nothing. I got r00t3D when someone compromised the latest openSSH source. That woz pretty elite.
BOFH3: (mumble mumble)
BOFH2: What was that?
BOFH3: [sobbing] An iPAQ! I got H4x0r3D by a fucking iPAQ, okay? Are you happy now?
BOFH1: What a l00zer.
BOFH2: Good grief.
Glad to see they're still teaching the 3 'arrs.
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