Since the HL2Fallout forum seems to have less bandwidth than all the CS players in the world (and thus is currently unreachable), here is a link to the Steam forum's thread.
Some years ago I was discovering nmap and tough it would be "cool" to scan port 1337 of random hosts. I let nmap ran for some hours while chatting on IRC. nmap finally scanned some navy.mil hosts. Since it was just a single port on some random hosts, not a full net I tough nobody would notice or care. I was joking about it with my IRC buddies and some hours later in got a mail that was like
From: security@navy.mil
Subject: scan port attempt
It looks like you have attempted to scan port some of our server. Do not do this again or actions will be taken.
John Smith
Security Administrator for US Navy Computer Center
I immediatly stopped nmap and was like OMGWTF. I wasn't really scared since I knew I didn't do anything really bad (or illegal) but HOW THE FUCK DID THEY GOT MY E-MAIL ? It wasn't the one used by my ISP and since I'm not in the US, it would have taken longer for them to get this kind of information from my ISP by legal ways (if they could get it) anyway. I was becoming crazy wondering about Echelon's capacity and things like that and after re-reading the mail several times it turned out it was sent by one of the people I was chatting with. Anyway I don't run nmap against random hosts anymore.
If you can boot from CD you could use Knoppix or any *nix Live CD that come with USB support for you drive and dd(1) the thing to it. If you can't boot from CD, you can boot from floppy and if you can't boot from floppy you can boot from HD (using loadlin) or network.
Maybe you could also try NTrawrite and see if it can write USB disks.
1. Ban all notebooks since you cant physically inspect the WiFi settings for the visitors. This idea will probably get you fired though. The morons are rich and powerful and will get their way in penetrating your network with their toys. Being a BOFH is only going to get you shafted.
You get it all wrong dude. The true BOFH would just set his own "BlackHatAP" that would automagically exploit some hole in the notebooks' software and download any interesting information it find.
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You don't even need an internet connection to set up a shell account you can use from "anywhere". Just use a good old modem and your phone line, set up pppd the right way and there you are. You can access your shell from anywhere as long as there is a phone line, a computer and a modem. Moreover, your phone number don't change as often as your IP adress.
And what stops you from DOSing the portknock daemon ? If you are concerned about DOS, just change the port it listens to every 30 minutes or so and have it be a function of current time. Something like this: port_number = md5_to_portnum(md5((++time)+secret_salt)). Now if you know the secret_salt and current time you know on which port the daemon is listening for the current 30 minute period. But no DOSer can tell. You can also change the password using the same technique.
I think this is easier to implement and to use than port knocking.
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Since the HL2Fallout forum seems to have less bandwidth than all the CS players in the world (and thus is currently unreachable), here is a link to the Steam forum's thread.
Hey what about google-bombing that ? online bullshit generator
Making a cluster of calculators running web servers just to survive the Slashdot effect will give you even more points.
Since aeiveos.com seems to have burst in flames here is the cached page from Google.
If you can boot from CD you could use Knoppix or any *nix Live CD that come with USB support for you drive and dd(1) the thing to it. If you can't boot from CD, you can boot from floppy and if you can't boot from floppy you can boot from HD (using loadlin) or network.
Maybe you could also try NTrawrite and see if it can write USB disks.
BTW we already discussed about blocking wifi.
There is also that guy who says that you can build a "decent" robot for about 50$.
You don't even need an internet connection to set up a shell account you can use from "anywhere". Just use a good old modem and your phone line, set up pppd the right way and there you are. You can access your shell from anywhere as long as there is a phone line, a computer and a modem. Moreover, your phone number don't change as often as your IP adress.
Maybe not the "community" but some companies are.
Who use taskbar anyway ?
1. maybe that's why they call it "beta" 3. looks like they are working on this
Jabber's Yahoo transport seems to work for me but I don't have any Yahoo contact anyway.
Releasing the tool is nice but if you want people to get involved, releasing the tool's source is better.
And what stops you from DOSing the portknock daemon ? If you are concerned about DOS, just change the port it listens to every 30 minutes or so and have it be a function of current time. Something like this: port_number = md5_to_portnum(md5((++time)+secret_salt)). Now if you know the secret_salt and current time you know on which port the daemon is listening for the current 30 minute period. But no DOSer can tell. You can also change the password using the same technique.
I think this is easier to implement and to use than port knocking.
> Did someone just discover that data can be graphed?
> What is the innovation here?
It's spinning !
Here you go.