I bet they try to charge $3.99 per minute to use the WiFi. Advantages are:
#1, if some business class guy can get his company/the gov't to pay $3.99 a minute, you can just launch an attack, route his traffic thru you and have fun. I would call it skyjacking his connection but that might be a bad term.
#2, if cell phones are allowed and you have a GSM carrier that does data, and you can maintain a connection (since the phone is going to be hopping cells pretty rapidly).... you could undercut Verizon on the plane and offer 25 cent per minute wireless by bridging people to the intarweb via your cell phone.
#3, I'd imagine they will use a web page to allow people to pay. This can't be secure as some dork back near the crapper spoofs the login page. There was a slick hack at defcon where every image became Goatse (probably via Squid proxy). This could be hilarious in-flight.
#4, Plane-sniffing -- 8' dish in your back yard tracking those planes flying overhead on a clear day -- grabbing data from plane passengers? Think it would work?
Has anyone left their cell phone on during flight, and left the phone in diag mode where it shows the current sector antenna / cell site? How often did it change? Nokia and other phones are capable of this.
We did this in 1999 and 2000 here in Southeastern Virginia.
It was based on FreeBSD.
1999 details:
http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas99/
Used Sealevel DIO cards for digital output
2000 details:
http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas00/
Used breadboard ISA card for digital output
It was tricky because broadband wasn't availible widely. I was planning to do it this year, but so many other projects hit I didn't have time. People in the neighborhood were mentioning it around Halloween.
I was looking into trying to use a large amount of end lit fiber on DMX-512 control from QLight for Linux or a hardware controller.... Stuff isn't totally cheap enough to produce lit tips all thruout the grass and all over the roof:-)
I recently found out archive.org has interface captures of http://christmas.757.org, which was the web site the lights were driven thru.
Enjoy! A dialogic employee (now Intel) has us all beat, with a very insane setup including lots of strobes, low power FM. He uses Solid state relays, not custom PCBs using TRIACs.
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Norfolk Va police just got them. After having to pay $177 over an expired inspection sticker, while fighting Honda over faulty Ocupational Position Safety Detectors in their seats that cause failed inspection stickers, I can't help but wonder if there would be a way to generate enough EMF to confuse the solid state gyro... SEGWAY OUT OF CONTROL! Hit the switch, aim your directional antenna and watch the thing go berzerk!
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Hate all you want, but they are actually kind of neat. They sound slow, but when you see one run past you it becomes apparent that they actually move pretty quickly.
Unicycle segway polo (unicycle segway was made)
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I had this idea a while ago, it brings back the BBS community style.
Hardware is cheap, people could build a box with a 200gb disk and 802.11g card and hide it on top of a large building or structure. Maybe a pay phone booth, or in an attic of a house. A high gain antenna could be used. These "nodes" could communicate host to host using internet (or another open wireless link, highly throttled).
The clients would be anyone with a notebook computer and a directional antenna. Depending on the city, all one would have to do is point their directional at the site, and wala, warezsite! Think of it as pirate radio with a studiotransmitter link.
Granted the nodes could be DOS attacked, or stolen, but people used to rm the stashes on the FTP servers in the golden days.
In an office park, you could end up wtih "drive in warez"... the downside is if the clients are in close proximity to the host, then license plates and physical busts could ruin the joy of having the latest crappy Eminim album. (Having seen Oceanse 12 yesterday, I was horrified to see Ice Cube in some new kids movie. WTF? From gats and crack to the next kids movie star, sheesh. I can see the two pack of DVDs in the bargain bin now, "A kiddie christmas comedy" and "Friday").
Tune in next time for "slow bitrate warez trading via Shortwave radio"
Come up with a white list of good addresses, and then reject all others. This way you loose a good amount of mail for the 2 days your shut down, but some important stuff would still get thru. Allow whitelist on border router or host firewall, deny everyone else.
The boom that is funded by taxpayer dollars and future debt. Yay for war spending. The bulk of the money will go to the rich and powerful at SAIC, BAH and other such gov't contractors.
"I'm not being cruel and unusual, I know it sucks. My dad just lost his job after 20+ years of service and he is 'lucky' enough to get a few extra weeks pay to help them ship his equipment to China. He was less than 2 years from full retirement.
It sucks, but that's how the market works. If you have a job, you have to "
No, that's how the market works now. Short sighted! I bet when your dad started work, they counted on the company being loyal to their employees. If the employees worked hard and the company was profitable then the employees could expect to work their lives for the company and retire.
If a company is unprofitable, it is understandable for them to WFR. But if the company is making millions in profit and they still shit on their employees "for the shareholders," that's pretty messed up. Remember, we can't compete with slave labor. Remember, we are the major consumers of our so-called American companies.
It's basically short-term gains. Over time the foundation that makes up the profits of these companies will be stripped away. People in turd world nations aren't going to have the income to buy the products from our companies at the same prices we do.
Of course, we see what happens when our companies sell their products at reduced prices in other parts of the world, and Americans try to buy the products at those reduced prices (Canada + Drugs). All of a sudden people are crying FOUL, so much for globalism.
"There are plenty of things YOU could've done to avoid finding yourself in such a dire situation. YOU could've saved up some money or not gotten such an expensive mortgage. If you're driving yourself at your financial red-line and praying nothing goes wrong, that's a pretty big risk you're taking, bucko. Regardless of how you rationalize it."
(Sarcasm)
But it was America's duty to do their share after 9/11 and shop! To not consume was to be un-american!
There was just a major announcement that there are tons of new tech jobs being added in Virginia, to the sum of 4000+. The thing about them is they are almost all gov't jobs.
What we have is private sector cutting their workers, and gov't contractors growing. I'd imagine a good portion is trickling down from all the war spending.
As long as you have a clearance and some keywords for HR to scan for, I'd imagine you would do okay. But many in the private sector probably don't have such a thing, and with the recent expansion of gov't there is a lag in security clearance processing from what I've heard (wait time is a year plus for TS?).
May the laid off take their smarts, get funding and form a new company to compete with the one that laid them off.
So were they using a LIDAR setup embedded in a cell phone to clock the speed of the ball, then relay the results via CDPD, GSM or analog modem over the cell phone to an offsite computer, which would send back the results?
I say let them keep the money. Their hack was passive, and didn't in any way touch the casino equipment.
During the travel channel/TLC's week long advertisements for Vegas, they run stories about crime in the Casinos. They mentioned a PI type confiscated software that could predict the numbers in Keno from some cheats. He then used it himself to beat the odds, basically correctly guessing a lotto number to the exact number. The Casino immediately went into investigating it since someone won (someone else said they don't like to give out money, the other person was right) and matched him to his job to his winnings, and he got popped.
Basically the casino was resetting the Keno machine every night, which throws off it's RNG and makes things predictable.
I've kind of got the attitude that if it wasn't for the fact he confiscated the software from someone else, he should have been awarded the money and not be given a jail sentence. It was passive.
This story almost makes it worthwhile to break out like 6 PDAs and three different color laser pointers beaming them on a wheel, with a ton of wires. Get a friend to videotape the casino thugs dragging you outside and beating you.
Man, if they came with a raised floor (access floor) and a 100 or 200 amp 220 panel, you could have a cardboard backyard computer overflow data center, to house all of the machines that won't fit in the normaly house.
I'd be willing to bet they were stealing line cards from CLEC coloc chassis, which would totally kill the phone/DSL service from the CLEC's clients. Instead of saynig "25,000 people lost phone service" I'm guessing they said "25,000 people lost access to 911, which meant they could have DIED!"
Too bad there aren't more tech details.
And I guess the people from NYT haven't tried to sell this type of equipment. Given the gluttony of.bombs, the market is fairly flooded with carrier gear. Unless it's zero day goods, the value on this crap drops like a rock.
PS: Portmaster 4 for sale, contact me off list.
They could slow the crime, if they really cared.
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So you set up a bunch of systems that capture tons of spam emails. Catchall's on various domain names, publish the domain names in public along with email addresses (websites, newsgroups, etc).
After your stupid phishing scams hit, eBay, Suntrust, Citibank, Paypal and BOA start hitting them with a few marked accounts. These marked accounts are setup with the purpose of dropping the information to the phishing scam people.
From that point, the phishing scammers will try to use this information for their benefit. At that point, it should be easier to build a path back to them.
That would require effort, it's easier for the banks to tack another dollar onto ATM fees and write off the losses. Has anyone checked to see if banks are actually writing off these losses and reporting them to shareholders?
Just like spam emails, the money goes somewhere. Just follow the money.
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I've sent like 150+ phishing emails to eBay's spoof@ebay.com (and a number of them to paypal). I always say "How about a shirt?" but have yet to get anything other than an automated response followed by a real response saying it's fake (which I already knew).
There is a professional company called Wildfire that makes UV lights and paints for stage and theater (think Mr Toads wild ride @ Disney).
They sell the lights and paints at different wavelenghts... so you can actually paint several scenes (clearly) over a standard painting... then fire up wavelength #1 and kill normal light and you will see one wavelength of paint...then you can fade into another and another. I always thought it would be awesome to paint a house with it. Find a nice house in a normal neighborhood with a stringent neighborhood association. House is normal by day. But at night time, it turns into some sorta sick florescent tetris looking freakshow.
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Any idea how they control the birds from the ground stations? I know in europe there were problems with bad kids moving satellites around.
I bet they try to charge $3.99 per minute to use the WiFi. Advantages are:
#1, if some business class guy can get his company/the gov't to pay $3.99 a minute, you can just launch an attack, route his traffic thru you and have fun. I would call it skyjacking his connection but that might be a bad term.
#2, if cell phones are allowed and you have a GSM carrier that does data, and you can maintain a connection (since the phone is going to be hopping cells pretty rapidly).... you could undercut Verizon on the plane and offer 25 cent per minute wireless by bridging people to the intarweb via your cell phone.
#3, I'd imagine they will use a web page to allow people to pay. This can't be secure as some dork back near the crapper spoofs the login page. There was a slick hack at defcon where every image became Goatse (probably via Squid proxy). This could be hilarious in-flight.
#4, Plane-sniffing -- 8' dish in your back yard tracking those planes flying overhead on a clear day -- grabbing data from plane passengers? Think it would work?
Has anyone left their cell phone on during flight, and left the phone in diag mode where it shows the current sector antenna / cell site? How often did it change? Nokia and other phones are capable of this.
We did this in 1999 and 2000 here in Southeastern Virginia.
:-)
It was based on FreeBSD.
1999 details:
http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas99/
Used Sealevel DIO cards for digital output
2000 details:
http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas00/
Used breadboard ISA card for digital output
It was tricky because broadband wasn't availible widely. I was planning to do it this year, but so many other projects hit I didn't have time. People in the neighborhood were mentioning it around Halloween.
I was looking into trying to use a large amount of end lit fiber on DMX-512 control from QLight for Linux or a hardware controller.... Stuff isn't totally cheap enough to produce lit tips all thruout the grass and all over the roof
I recently found out archive.org has interface captures of http://christmas.757.org, which was the web site the lights were driven thru.
Enjoy! A dialogic employee (now Intel) has us all beat, with a very insane setup including lots of strobes, low power FM. He uses Solid state relays, not custom PCBs using TRIACs.
Norfolk Va police just got them. After having to pay $177 over an expired inspection sticker, while fighting Honda over faulty Ocupational Position Safety Detectors in their seats that cause failed inspection stickers, I can't help but wonder if there would be a way to generate enough EMF to confuse the solid state gyro... SEGWAY OUT OF CONTROL! Hit the switch, aim your directional antenna and watch the thing go berzerk!
Hate all you want, but they are actually kind of neat. They sound slow, but when you see one run past you it becomes apparent that they actually move pretty quickly.
Unicycle seqway polo..
http://tlb.org/eunicycle.html
I had this idea a while ago, it brings back the BBS community style.
... the downside is if the clients are in close proximity to the host, then license plates and physical busts could ruin the joy of having the latest crappy Eminim album. (Having seen Oceanse 12 yesterday, I was horrified to see Ice Cube in some new kids movie. WTF? From gats and crack to the next kids movie star, sheesh. I can see the two pack of DVDs in the bargain bin now, "A kiddie christmas comedy" and "Friday").
Hardware is cheap, people could build a box with a 200gb disk and 802.11g card and hide it on top of a large building or structure. Maybe a pay phone booth, or in an attic of a house. A high gain antenna could be used. These "nodes" could communicate host to host using internet (or another open wireless link, highly throttled).
The clients would be anyone with a notebook computer and a directional antenna. Depending on the city, all one would have to do is point their directional at the site, and wala, warezsite! Think of it as pirate radio with a studiotransmitter link.
Granted the nodes could be DOS attacked, or stolen, but people used to rm the stashes on the FTP servers in the golden days.
In an office park, you could end up wtih "drive in warez"
Tune in next time for "slow bitrate warez trading via Shortwave radio"
Come up with a white list of good addresses, and then reject all others. This way you loose a good amount of mail for the 2 days your shut down, but some important stuff would still get thru. Allow whitelist on border router or host firewall, deny everyone else.
Reports that expose the dangers of near field RF energy aren't good for the mobile telephone industry. Therefore, all research has been cancelled.
Have a good day.
In the US, the older generations often seem to stumble with technology. I'm not trying to stereotype, but think of the VCR 12:00 clock issue.
Do the older generations in Japan adopt the technology gadgets, or do the units mostly exist in the hands of the younger like in the states?
(Yes, I know there execeptions, and I know that older folks carry cell phones in the US).
The boom that is funded by taxpayer dollars and future debt. Yay for war spending. The bulk of the money will go to the rich and powerful at SAIC, BAH and other such gov't contractors.
AOL's parent company owns a large chunk of their competition.
Road Runner = Time Warner. Time Warner = cable company.
"I'm not being cruel and unusual, I know it sucks. My dad just lost his job after 20+ years of service and he is 'lucky' enough to get a few extra weeks pay to help them ship his equipment to China. He was less than 2 years from full retirement. It sucks, but that's how the market works. If you have a job, you have to " No, that's how the market works now. Short sighted! I bet when your dad started work, they counted on the company being loyal to their employees. If the employees worked hard and the company was profitable then the employees could expect to work their lives for the company and retire.
If a company is unprofitable, it is understandable for them to WFR. But if the company is making millions in profit and they still shit on their employees "for the shareholders," that's pretty messed up. Remember, we can't compete with slave labor. Remember, we are the major consumers of our so-called American companies.
It's basically short-term gains. Over time the foundation that makes up the profits of these companies will be stripped away. People in turd world nations aren't going to have the income to buy the products from our companies at the same prices we do.
Of course, we see what happens when our companies sell their products at reduced prices in other parts of the world, and Americans try to buy the products at those reduced prices (Canada + Drugs). All of a sudden people are crying FOUL, so much for globalism.
"There are plenty of things YOU could've done to avoid finding yourself in such a dire situation. YOU could've saved up some money or not gotten such an expensive mortgage. If you're driving yourself at your financial red-line and praying nothing goes wrong, that's a pretty big risk you're taking, bucko. Regardless of how you rationalize it."
(Sarcasm)
But it was America's duty to do their share after 9/11 and shop! To not consume was to be un-american!
What we have is short-sightedness.
RFID's could easily eliminate the majority of large retailer check out line jobs! So much for people working in service.
There was just a major announcement that there are tons of new tech jobs being added in Virginia, to the sum of 4000+. The thing about them is they are almost all gov't jobs.
What we have is private sector cutting their workers, and gov't contractors growing. I'd imagine a good portion is trickling down from all the war spending.
As long as you have a clearance and some keywords for HR to scan for, I'd imagine you would do okay. But many in the private sector probably don't have such a thing, and with the recent expansion of gov't there is a lag in security clearance processing from what I've heard (wait time is a year plus for TS?).
May the laid off take their smarts, get funding and form a new company to compete with the one that laid them off.
So were they using a LIDAR setup embedded in a cell phone to clock the speed of the ball, then relay the results via CDPD, GSM or analog modem over the cell phone to an offsite computer, which would send back the results?
I say let them keep the money. Their hack was passive, and didn't in any way touch the casino equipment.
During the travel channel/TLC's week long advertisements for Vegas, they run stories about crime in the Casinos. They mentioned a PI type confiscated software that could predict the numbers in Keno from some cheats. He then used it himself to beat the odds, basically correctly guessing a lotto number to the exact number. The Casino immediately went into investigating it since someone won (someone else said they don't like to give out money, the other person was right) and matched him to his job to his winnings, and he got popped.
Basically the casino was resetting the Keno machine every night, which throws off it's RNG and makes things predictable.
I've kind of got the attitude that if it wasn't for the fact he confiscated the software from someone else, he should have been awarded the money and not be given a jail sentence. It was passive.
This story almost makes it worthwhile to break out like 6 PDAs and three different color laser pointers beaming them on a wheel, with a ton of wires. Get a friend to videotape the casino thugs dragging you outside and beating you.
Man, if they came with a raised floor (access floor) and a 100 or 200 amp 220 panel, you could have a cardboard backyard computer overflow data center, to house all of the machines that won't fit in the normaly house.
Or use it as a shed.
Don't kid yourself, the true goal was directly ripping video. Linux just makes a good excuse.
I'd be willing to bet they were stealing line cards from CLEC coloc chassis, which would totally kill the phone/DSL service from the CLEC's clients. Instead of saynig "25,000 people lost phone service" I'm guessing they said "25,000 people lost access to 911, which meant they could have DIED!"
.bombs, the market is fairly flooded with carrier gear. Unless it's zero day goods, the value on this crap drops like a rock.
Too bad there aren't more tech details.
And I guess the people from NYT haven't tried to sell this type of equipment. Given the gluttony of
PS: Portmaster 4 for sale, contact me off list.
So you set up a bunch of systems that capture tons of spam emails. Catchall's on various domain names, publish the domain names in public along with email addresses (websites, newsgroups, etc).
After your stupid phishing scams hit, eBay, Suntrust, Citibank, Paypal and BOA start hitting them with a few marked accounts. These marked accounts are setup with the purpose of dropping the information to the phishing scam people.
From that point, the phishing scammers will try to use this information for their benefit. At that point, it should be easier to build a path back to them.
That would require effort, it's easier for the banks to tack another dollar onto ATM fees and write off the losses. Has anyone checked to see if banks are actually writing off these losses and reporting them to shareholders?
Just like spam emails, the money goes somewhere. Just follow the money.
I've sent like 150+ phishing emails to eBay's spoof@ebay.com (and a number of them to paypal). I always say "How about a shirt?" but have yet to get anything other than an automated response followed by a real response saying it's fake (which I already knew).
Someday...
If the projector bulb lasts 1000 hours, you would need to sell 100 hours alone just to cover the bulb cost.
What a way to burn in servers, they just rent out time on all of the newly built boxes at the end of the production line.
Is it wise for vendors to compete with their customers? What about all of the HP customers that run compute farms for hire?
Does this have to do with Carley Fiorna(sp) and Disney?
There is a professional company called Wildfire that makes UV lights and paints for stage and theater (think Mr Toads wild ride @ Disney).
.then you can fade into another and another. I always thought it would be awesome to paint a house with it. Find a nice house in a normal neighborhood with a stringent neighborhood association. House is normal by day. But at night time, it turns into some sorta sick florescent tetris looking freakshow.
They sell the lights and paints at different wavelenghts... so you can actually paint several scenes (clearly) over a standard painting... then fire up wavelength #1 and kill normal light and you will see one wavelength of paint..