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Neopwn, the World's First Pentesting Mobile Phone

Posted by timothy on from the data-rate-plan dept.

thefanboy writes "What do you get when you cross BackTrack Linux apps with a mobile phone? This is the first ever publicly available mobile phone running a full custom Linux network auditing distribution, and it runs it surprisingly well. One can literally go from phone to pwn in 2 seconds. Based off of the Openmoko Neo Freerunner, many steps have been taken to compensate for the lack of a QWERTY keyboard with automation scripts, dialogs, and a point-and-pwn menu. It runs applications such as Metasploit and the Aircrack suite quite well, especially given the fact that it supports a wide array of USB WLAN cards."

3 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I really hate the term 'pwn' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    13 year old piss monkeys drive the internet.

  2. Yet another Linux geek wetdream by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    an iPhone it's not

    an interesting pet project, but it brings to mind the famed words of Bruce Perens: Linux is only free if your time has no value

    really, a phone to run penetration tests? that will be the only penetration you'll be doing any time soon, you nerd

  3. GPL Violations by galaad2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    in between a ton of 503 http replies (slashdotting in progress) i have managed to browse all those pages (F5 FTW!) and i have NOT seen a link to download the software itself or even the source code and not even a promise of future availability.

    Since the Linux kernel is licensed under the GPL and they seem to provide a binary-only kernel for their customers (no source code that i saw) it seems we have here yet another clear cut GPL violation case.

    On their page at http://www.neopwn.com/software.php i know that the following have GPL licenses and they must also provide the source code for but they don't do it:

    Debian OS (Lenny / ARMEL) - packages are GPL mostly
    Custom Kernel - (Linux 2.6.24) - GPL definitely
    Open Source Penetration Testing Application Ports - again, mostly GPL stuff

    Also on their site at http://www.neopwn.com/store.php the cheapest option is $80... with a SD card and dvd thrown in but again no source code download available...

    so, what gives? Do they charge for source code too ?

    Admittedly, the site is still under construction and the suite has not yet been formally released, so they still have time to correct the issues.

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    just my 2 cents

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