Neopwn, the World's First Pentesting Mobile Phone

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."

Comments

I really hate the term 'pwn'

[ttlgDaveh]

'pwn' drives me nuts. In my eyes the use of it seriously undermines any project and gives the impression that it is presided over by annoying 13 years olds which, in turn, pretty much makes me dismiss it.

Re:I really hate the term 'pwn'

[couchslug]

"'pwn' drives me nuts. In my eyes the use of it seriously undermines any project and gives the impression that it is presided over by annoying 13 years olds which, in turn, pretty much makes me dismiss it."

Even if it is accompanied by trendy, fresh terms like "Neo" ???

Re:I really hate the term 'pwn'

[cbreaker]

"Seriously, I'd trust code written by 13 year olds a lot more than that written by major companies."

Then you'd be stupid.

Sure, a young kid can write some novel little things, but serious software? No. It does in fact take teams of people do to that - in the OSS world or corporate world (or as often is the case, a mix of the two.)

Generally speaking, 13 year old boys don't do much on the Internet except beg for shit, yell at shit, and talk shit. Lots of shit is involved.

It's not limited to 13 year olds, but it sure is true for many 1st person shooter type games. I used to enjoy playing games like CS and stuff with my friend but we both eventually got tired of the little kiddies ruining every game.

Re:I really hate the term 'pwn'

[m50d]

Sure, a young kid can write some novel little things, but serious software? No. It does in fact take teams of people do to that - in the OSS world or corporate world (or as often is the case, a mix of the two.)

No it doesn't. Any piece of software actually large enough to need a team (which is a far far smaller number than the number which are generally written by team) should be separated into smaller components. A single good coder beats a team - of any size - every time; I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a kid write a superior replacement for something that took a major corp. six months in one 36-hour shot.

Generally speaking, 13 year old boys don't do much on the Internet except beg for shit, yell at shit, and talk shit. Lots of shit is involved.

95% of everything is shit. Yes, a lot of 13 year olds are doing shit, but they aren't the ones who are writing and releasing code.

It's not limited to 13 year olds, but it sure is true for many 1st person shooter type games. I used to enjoy playing games like CS and stuff with my friend but we both eventually got tired of the little kiddies ruining every game.

You'd be surprised how many of those "kiddies" are actually in their 20s or worse.

Re:I really hate the term 'pwn'

[atraintocry]

Homophone
:P

Re:0 to NSA blacklist in 6.3 seconds

[ColdWetDog]

(I'm looking at you Alaska)

Actually, the IT infrastructure in the State of Alaska is reasonably good. What you are asking for is that Alaska politicians understand the difference between .ak.gov and yahoo.com. Not only that, you're asking for Alaska politicians to not circumvent that difference whenever they feel it's convenient.

Fat Chance. Remember, this is the state that created the Tubes. And that thinks boiled Moose noses are delicacies.

Place your bets

[cmacb]

Will the reaction to such devices be to strengthen the security of our cellular networks, or to simply outlaw such devices?

Hmmmm, ponder, ponder, ponder.

My money is on the latter.

The ultimate geek toy

[David Gerard]

The anti-iPhone: the Linux telephone that operates entirely from the command line! The Ultimate One-Dimensional Desktop! What can't you do with a bash prompt?

(The v2 version will, of course, run Emacs and be programmed entirely in eLisp written on the fly.)