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OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool

Posted by timothy on from the well-equipped dept.

twistedmoney99 writes "InformIT.com has a whimsical yet intriguing look at the OLPC in an article series titled "One Leet Pwning Child — Give one, Get Owned". Part one details how to upgrade the core system with some extras, but part two is where the fun begins as the author converts the OLPC into a lean green hacking machine to enable wireless sniffing, setup the OLPC for vulnerability assessments, and stage the device for a little autopwning with Metasploit."

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  1. lovely... by pasv · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great. Now we'll have to worry about those leet African hackers doing phishing.. Oh wait.

    1. Re:lovely... by zeromorph · · Score: 4, Funny

      Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to phish and you feed him for a lifetime.

      --
      "Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
  2. Autoconfig? by norminator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it come with Zealous Autoconfig?

  3. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day by Zegnar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Teach a man to phish and he'll never be hungry again!

  4. News Flash by Script+Cat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Computers can be used for hacking.
    Obviously this must be stopped now! Think of the children.
    Once they gain this forbidden knowledge, they'll threaten the social order in the god forsaken dirt hole where they live.

    1. Distribute computers.
    2. Children become L337 H4X0RZ
    3. ???
    4. Cthulhu