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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Overly Attached Girlfriend - Hacking a radio controlled spy device for overly attached girlfriend

This is Great! Watch the Videos!:)

Don

Hacking a radio controlled spy device for overly attached girlfriend.

This is the first in our series of videos meant to spread the hacking goodness far and wide on the net. As you can see, it is a pretty silly video, hopefully you enjoyed the humor.  This wouldn’t be hackaday without an appropriate writeup though!

Initially the idea was to make this as a device that my boss could deploy from his Tesla Model S. Ultimately, we missed the release of SkyFall, so the whole 007 theme seemed a little flat. However, we did just happen to have a wonderful woman in the office that agreed to be an “overly attached girlfriend”. Here’s a link to the meme for those who are unfamiliar. Even though we made her look like a crazy person, she was a great sport about it (Thanks [Stephanie]!).

The Goal was to have a radio controlled device that would send live video and audio to someone and had the ability to plant a small GPS tracker on the undercarriage of a car.

My first thought was simply to pick up a spy Trakr since it already handles the audio/video portion and has a documented interface for adding your own attachments. Before I bought this, I did what I usually do when I need cheap radio controlled stuff, I went to Toys R Us. While I was there, I saw the Intruder.

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http://hackaday.com/2013/02/27/hacking-a-radio-controlled-spy-device-for-overly-attached-girlfriend/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Hacking a radio controlled spy device for overly attached girlfriend
Hacking a radio controlled spy device for overly attached girlfriend.
Overly Attached Girlfriend spy car hack - YouTube
Overly Attached Girlfriend spy hack: How it was made - YouTube

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Running a PXE Boot Server in Parted Magic



Here's some good info on Running PXE Boot Server in Parted Magic...

Don



PXE – Parted Magic




PXE




PXE: the "classic" way



PXE: the "memdisk - boot the standard PM ISO" way
PXE


The basics: PXELINUX
PXE: the "classic" way


Parted Magic has a very simple, yet powerful system for booting from a PXE server. Download the pmagic-pxe-X.X.zip file and unzip it. Copy the “pmagic” folder from the extracted archive to the root of the PXE directory, and edit the pxelinux.cfg file to read something like: DEFAULT pmagic # Boot the kernel and initramfs over PXE. LABEL pmagic LINUX pmagic/bzImage INITRD pmagic/initramfs APPEND edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256


Or alternatively you can convert a Parted Magic ISO to PXE format. Mount the ISO, run a script: mkdir /tmp/cdrom mount -oloop pmagic-X.X.iso /tmp/cdrom sh /tmp/cdrom/boot/pxelinux/pm2pxe.sh


and follow the instructions as output on which files to copy to the PXE server and on how to edit the pxelinux.cfg file.

Both methods will download the entire 165 MB Parted Magic distribution to the target computer's memory and run from there. You will need some 320+ MB RAM to run comfortably.


Adding extra packages:

For details on packages refer to our Adding programs page.

To add packages, you have to create an additional cpio archive to merge with the initramfs used to boot the system.

1. Create a dummy directory called anything you wish. E.g. “mydir”. mkdir -p mydir/{modules,scripts}


The optional “scripts” directory will hold any custom scripts to be run when the system boots. This can be useful to automate a repetitive function that you may use on a daily basis.

2. Download/locate the desired package(s) and place them in the newly-created “modules” folder. Add your scripts to “scripts” if you plan to use this function.

3. The cpio archive necessary to merge with the initramfs needs to be created. cd mydir find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 > ../modules.cgz


You can call the file anything that you choose. I just picked “modules.cgz” for this example. You can create multiple cpio archives if this is the way you prefer to do it. Just keep in mind, our directory structure needs to be used or this system will not work.

4. Now we just have to make a simple addition to the INITRD line in the pxelinux.cfg: DEFAULT pmagic # Boot the kernel and initramfs over PXE. LABEL pmagic LINUX pmagic/bzImage INITRD pmagic/initramfs,pmagic/modules.cgz APPEND edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256



Workaround for tftp servers which can't transfer files larger than 32MB:

Extract the Parted Magic PXE archive, run a script: sh pmagic-pxe-X.X/boot/pxelinux/split-initramfs.sh


Or alternatively when converting a Parted Magic ISO to PXE format run: sh /tmp/cdrom/boot/pxelinux/pm2pxe.sh split


In both cases follow the instructions as output on which files to copy to the PXE server and on how to edit the pxelinux.cfg file.

Note that the split-initramfs.sh script should be run as root, or if this is not possible, that your cpio program must support the –owner option. The pm2pxe.sh script does not have this requirement.
PXE: the "memdisk - boot the standard PM ISO" way

Provided that your PXE server does not have a filesize limitation the “memdisk - boot the standard PM ISO” method is a complete alternative for the “classic” method as described above. Your pxelinux stanza is really simple: DEFAULT pmagic_iso # Boot the entire ISO over PXE. LABEL pmagic_iso LINUX /pmagic/memdisk INITRD /pmagic/pmagic-X.X.iso APPEND iso


The ISO is the standard Parted Magic one as distributed, the memdisk program came from the /boot/syslinux directory on the ISO.


Whereas with the “classic” PXE method there is no user menu (the options are preset on the server), with the memdisk method the user can choose his/her options from the standard menu. Depending on the specific use case this may or may not be an advantage.


You can find a nice example here.




Go there...

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=pxe


Parted Magic

parted magic - Google Search

start – Parted Magic

downloads – Parted Magic PXE Network Boot info

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[SOLVED] "PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, Check Cable" Error Message - Tech Support Guy Forums

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start - Etherboot/gPXE Wiki

howtos - Etherboot/gPXE Wiki

isolinux - Etherboot/gPXE Wiki

SetPXEBootPasswd - cobbler - Trac

Plop Linux - LiveCD, USB boot, PXE network boot, antivirus, rescue, partimage, NTFS, tftp, avast, f-prot

Plop Linux - LiveCD, USB boot, PXE network boot, antivirus, rescue, partimage, NTFS, tftp, avast, f-prot

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DonsDeals: Plop Linux - LiveCD, USB boot, PXE network boot, antivirus, rescue, partimage, NTFS, tftp, avast, f-prot

Sysresccd-manual-en PXE network booting - SystemRescueCd

cobbler

Plop Linux - LiveCD, USB boot, PXE network boot, antivirus, rescue, partimage, NTFS, tftp, avast, f-prot

pxe – Parted Magic

forums.partedmagic.com • View topic - PXE-Error with 5.x versions (4.x versions are running)

Grml Live Linux grml.org - Debian Live system CD for sysadmins and texttool-users

What is Grml?

Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators. Users don't have to install anything on fixed storage. Grml is especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue. Read more...

Read More...
http://grml.org/

Features and main goals of Grml

  • distribution for sysadmins and users of text tools
  • Debian based distribution [use existing infrastructure]
  • usability by the visually impaired right out of the box

Grml - Linux for zsh lovers

Grml provides an excellent selection of software packages for installation, deployment and system rescue. You'll get sysadmin's favourite tools. Choose between a x86 and an amd64 version depending on your needs or just grab the multiboot ISO grml96, providing 64bit and 32bit ISOs in one single place.

Grml provides several scripts and utils which make life easier. The default interactive shell is Zsh and is configured with a very powerful setup, including a nifty completion mechanism. grml-x is a wrapper for configuring and using the X window system. grml2usb is a tool for installing Grml ISO(s) on a usb device for booting. grml-crypt is a program that provides an easy wrapper arround cryptsetup, mkfs, losetup and mount. grml-live is a build framework based on FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) for generating a Grml and Debian based Linux Live system (CD/ISO). grml-tips provides useful tips and tricks for daily life on the command line.

Visit the FAQ for answers to some Frequently Asked Questions.

You can browse the list of software (packages) provided by Grml - check out the Debian section.

Sponsors

Grml is sponsored by several companies. For more information about our sponors check out the Sponsors webpage. Our main sponsor is:

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http://grml.org/features/

Grml Live Linux

grml.org - Debian Live system / CD for sysadmins and texttool-users
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Redirection and Decryption of Mobile Traffic - TechRepublic

If you use Opera Mini and perhaps several other Mobile Web Browsers for your Online Banking or other Personal and Sensitive Surfing. Then, this should interest you...

Don

Redirection and decryption of mobile traffic: Is your browser a MitM?

Takeaway: By design, certain mobile web browsers send HTTPS-encrypted traffic to their home servers first. Michael Kassner finds out why, and what it means to each of us.

If you think HTTPS traffic from your mobile web browser travels unaltered, and safely encrypted all the way to the remote web server you requested information from, don’t be so sure. Opera Mini developers were asked:

Is there any end-to-end security between my handset and - for example - paypal.com or my bank?

The answer:

Opera Mini uses a transcoder server to translate HTML/CSS/JavaScript into a more compact format. It will also shrink any images to fit the screen of your handset. This translation step makes Opera Mini fast, small, and also very cheap to use. To be able to do this translation, the Opera Mini server needs to have access to the unencrypted version of the webpage. Therefore no end-to-end encryption between the client and the remote web server is possible.

To rule out any doubt:

If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full web browser such as Opera Mobile.Opera Mini

Just to be clear “end-to-end encryption,” in this case, means HTTPS (encrypted) traffic travels to a remote web server, a bank for example, unhampered (not decrypted).

I don’t use any of Opera’s web browsers. I’ll be honest, even if I did use Opera, I would not have known about the redirection. I only started checking what mobile web browsers were doing after a colleague informed me the tech press crucified Nokia for doing something similar.

How it started

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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/redirection-and-decryption-of-mobile-traffic-is-your-browser-a-mitm/9115?tag=nl.e036&s_cid=e036&ttag=e036

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Monday, February 25, 2013

The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is in Effect Now!

This Law in effect Now. It will cost you $35 to contest an Accusation of a Copyright Violation and your Internet Connection will be "Throttled" (Slowed down by your ISP) if you are Accused!...

Don

INET New York: The Copyright Alert System

Video Link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3UdLmXFkL0


Copyright Alert System (CAS)

Copyright alert system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The copyright alert system, also known as the six strikes program,[1] is a graduated response framework for the United States, agreed upon by participating ISPs and Intellectual property organizations in which a third-party will monitor file-sharing networks, collect the IP addresses of suspected copyright infringement, and submit the IP addresses to ISPs who will in turn issue the suspected infringer a copyright alert.[2] Those suspected of copyright infringement may be issued six copyright alerts, one for each subsequent infringement.[3] Consumers who fail to respond to the alerts may have their connection throttled, though their account may not be terminated.[4]

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association has stated that the framework will serve to "educate consumers" and "reduce online content theft".[5]

The framework has been the subject of criticism concerning its effectiveness and possible privacy violations.[6] The Electronic Frontier Foundation has also claimed that the materials used to "educate consumers" are "more like propaganda," and that the framework violates the principle of presumption of innocence.[7] The White House has stated its support for the agreement noting that the "agreement is a positive step and consistent with our strategy of encouraging voluntary efforts to strengthen online intellectual property enforcement and with our broader Internet policy principles, emphasizing privacy, free speech, competition and due process."[8]

The framework was established on July 7, 2011 after 3 years in the making.[3]

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  1. ^ ""Six strikes" program could affect businesses too, even if infringer is unknown". Ars Technica. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-01-24.
  2. ^ Bruno, Antony. Labels Reach Deal With ISPs on Antipiracy Effort, billboard.biz, July 07, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Brimmeier, Khristyn. Music, Film, TV, and Broadband Collaborate to Curb Online Content Theft, Center for Copyright Information, 7 July 2011.
  4. ^ Engleman, Eric (July 7, 2011). "AT&T Joins Verizon in Fight Against Web Piracy of Movies, Music". Bloomberg.
  5. ^ a b "Music, Movie, TV and Broadband Leaders Team to Curb Online Content Theft". National Cable & Telecommunications Association. July 7, 2011.
  6. ^ "Should you fear new ISP copyright enforcers?". CNET. July 7, 2011.
  7. ^ "U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On, Promises of Transparency Already Broken". Electronic Frontier Foundation. November 15, 2012.
  8. ^ Espinel, Victoria (July 7, 2011). "Working Together to Stop Internet Piracy". White House.
  9. ^ "Momorandum of Understanding". Center for Copyright Information. 7/6/2011. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Scan links that you get in e-mails to Check the Web Site for Viruses - www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner

Here's a good Page, where you can scan links that you get in e-mails and check the Web Site for Mal-ware or Viruses. Before you click on the link and go there...  What you can do is... Right Click on the Link and Select "Copy Link Location". Then go to this site and paste the link in the little Link Scanner Area, http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/. See the Screen Shots Below...




It may not work with the whole Link (URL) as is. It will open up another page with your results. If you get a page that looks like this...



You can just delete everything but the Base URL (the Main Web Site Address). Like this...



Then you will get a results Page, telling you if the Site has Known Problems, Mal-ware or  Viruses. This Page was Ok, so the Results Page looks like this...


 
Then you can feel a little more Safe, about Clicking on those E-Mail Links. It's a bit of a Pain, I know. But, far less of a PAIN. Than Getting a Virus or Mal-ware on your PC...

Don

Friday, February 22, 2013

XBoot is an easy to use utility for creating Multi-Boot USB Sticks or CD - DVD's with ISO Files

This is my Go To USB and ISO File Multi-Boot Linux Distro and Windows Recovery CD - USB Builder. You can try out any ISO file in XBoot, by dragging it into the XBoot Window. Then it will ask you which Boot Method to use, if it can't be done automatically by XBoot. If your Distro or Recovery ISO is in the drop down list. Choose it and go. Allot of the time, the ISO's I want to use are not in the list. I have had the best luck of them working with the Grub for Dos Setting. But you can try them all. This can be time consuming. But, you can try out your Multi-Boot ISO or USB Stick in Qemu a Virtual Machine (built in to XBoot). Before putting your CD - DVD or USB Stick on a Real Machine to see if it works. I just wish I had about 20 USB Sticks of at least 5GB. So that I wouldn't have to keep Deleting my Great Multi-Boot Setups, to do a new one, for a different Purpose. I also, have a hard time remembering which ISO's worked and which ones didn't, last time. But, that's not XBoot's fault;)... 

Don

XBOOT A Utility for creating multiboot usb/iso



                                                                                                                                                       


XBoot is a easy-to-use utility for creating Multiboot USB/ISO.You may have seen many bootable ISO files like Linux live CDs , Antivirus rescue CDs etc. XBoot can combine these ISO files in to one Multiboot ISO file or create Multiboot USB in just few clicks.
Simply Drag and drop ISO files in to XBoot and click Create ISO or Create USB button.



Support for some ISO files have been added , support for some other ISO files will be added later on the request
 of users.If you want support for any language other than English then please request in Xboot forum.





Some reviews and articles have been written about XBoot by some third parties.You can read them for you reference.

If you want to add to above list any tutorial , reviews etc. on XBoot that you found on internet or you have written yourself , then please mention it by creating a new topic in XBoot Forum