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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. useful by (trb001) · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is, by far, the most useful use for a Dreamcast I've heard of.

    --trb

  2. Re:This reminds me of my university by glwtta · · Score: 1, Troll
    but could you trust the student? That's the real question

    um, in short: no.

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  3. Why bother? by twitter · · Score: 1, Troll
    Why bother with a whole install? If you get access to a machine like that, why not just drop in a DOS root kit? The mahine's owner would never be the wiser.

    When you get down to it, most crackers would be ashamed to have to WALK someplace. Surely you could just mail some Outlook crack and have access that way? Once you own one machine, you can own them all, and I suspect most corporate machines are indeed owned this way. Think M$ will ever get a clue? I don't.

    Then again, by the XP license M$ has a root kit all their own. IEEEE! My desktop is not MY desktop! Nor is it my company's desktop. It belongs to M$.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.