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Attack Of The Dreamcasts

Posted by Hemos on from the swirly-logos-coming-at-you dept.

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."

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  1. How is that going to work? by Kith_Me · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

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    1. Re:How is that going to work? by jayhawk88 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Hey Bob?"
      "Yeah Mike?"
      "There's something wrong with your Dreamcast, I can't get it to boot up Soul Calibur."
      "My Dreamcast? What Dreamcast?"
      "Your Dreamcast...you know, the one you had plugged into the 2nd floor comms closet?"
      "That's not my Dreamcast. Did you ask Dave?"
      "Yeah, both he and Shirley say they've never seen it before."
      "And you say it won't play Soul Calibur? Did you try booting it with no disc?"
      "Yeah, it comes up with some weird black screen and says it's beginning port scan, or some such nonsense like that."
      "Huh, I wonder what made it do that?"
      "Who knows. Oh well, guess I'll go plug it back into the router that it was plugged into."

  2. So the commercials were right... by Cutriss · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  3. I'm sure a few people mentioned it, but... by glwtta · · Score: 5, Funny
    yeah, if you have random people entering your building unsupervised and plugging things into the network, you just might have a security problem, Dreamcast or no Dreamcast.

    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.

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