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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. 1 page link by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 4, Informative

    Might just be virgin messing with me but the site isn't loading well, so here's the 1 page version
    and the google cache

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    IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
  2. 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
  3. Autoconfig? by norminator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it come with Zealous Autoconfig?

    1. Re:Autoconfig? by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You mean wesside ?

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      IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
  4. 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!

  5. 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

  6. Re: Screw the OLPC by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First off, parent should (IMHO) be modded as troll, because it has nothing to do with the subject, and looks intended to start a flame war. But just to debunk the argument:

    I'd say the OLPC project has succeeded in a technical respect. It produced a computer that's rugged, cheap, power-efficient and flexible. And for the combination of properties, better than what existed before. What's more, if it didn't break open the market of cheap, ultra-mobile machines like the Asus EeePC, then at least accelerated that. Causing millions of people to use smaller, more eco-friendly computing devices than before.

    From the education side, success needs more time to show, if it will happen. But progress is blocked here by political or market forces rather than technological options.

    So even if the OLPC project hasn't (yet) succeeded in helping poor kids to connect to the rest of the world, and improve their education, it has done 2 things: a) realize part of that dream, and b) bring that goal closer.

    -- Oh and btw. it's Nicholas Negroponte