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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and then what? u hack into someone day planer and still all their great diner plans? or do you just want to capture your dad's porn passwords?
- DickBreath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These are really good for building miniature packet sniffers. You covertly attach it to a network, it captures login passwords all day, then it connects to IRC at night and awaits a command to disgorge all of the goodies it captured during the day.
I have an even better design, but I haven't seen suitable off the shelf hardware for it yet. This design involves two ethernet ports. The device does NOT have any MAC address. It acts as a true ethernet bridge.
The purpose is that in a highly locked down network, you can insert this device IN BETWEEN a wall jack and an authorized PC or other authorized device. Traffic between the authorized PC and the rest of the LAN is passed in both directions without interference. The sniffer appears from the LAN side to have the MAC addresses (and therefore IP addresses) of all devices on its other side. And vice-versa from the authorized PC's side. The Linux kernel in the sniffer is configured to act as a true ethernet bridge.
At night the sniffer can covertly check for any commands by "visiting" a web site or IRC or something else. This visit appears to originate from the MAC and IP address of the authorized PC. Therefore, no unauthorized IP's or MAC's are ever seen on the locked down LAN.
The purpose of this may simply be to spy on the single authorized device. (Even if it is, say, a printer.)
If you are willing to potentially reveal the existence of the sniffer, you can remotely command it to perform an arp-spoof during the day to intercept traffic between other nodes on the LAN. - samholton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had a similar idea. Except mine was to make the cable itself the device you described. That way you just replace a network cable.
- LoneStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I WANT! it should cost like 10 bux
- Chaos12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Where can I get one? Looks cool.
- thecapitalizt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, I could totally network my washing machine w/ this thing!
Seriously though, for the price, i'd rather get a gumstix. Small enough for me, craploads more expandability, faster! - deancowan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.picotux.com/ordere.html
- xamox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad cable is dying and wireless is taking over.
- jimma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But is it impossibly small? like the ipod?
- Chango_Family, on 10/12/2007, -0/+035mm×19mm?
Hmm,.... so that means they can add a 3mm LCD screen to watch video. - meangene, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haven't seen this before. Nice!
- anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0neat idea. but why not power it via the ethernet itself, i wonder. separate power supply? defeats the smallness if you have to hang a wallwart next to it. furthermore, considering the size of nvram chips these days, a la ipod nano, i'd think substantially more memory could be crammed into the same size device.
- Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0old.... i want one.
- anagami, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0direct link: http://www.picotux.com/
- AndrewTechie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Even though this is old and a dupe, I'll give it a dig for just sheer coolness.
This would be great as a network sniffer(as mentioned above) or for just plain malicious use on a network. I can see many ways to drive network admins crazy with these things. hehehe
For my money though, I'd go with a gumstick pc(http://www.gumstix.com/sys_tinycomp.html). Much more powerful and expandable and not a whole lot bigger. Also, they have already been used in many cool projects to do with sniffing and bluesnarfing. (http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article106-page7.php) - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You should give us something like 2 SUPERdiggs per month that equal like 10 or 20 normal, mortal diggs. And if you do such a thing I'll give both of mine this month to this one.
- AlfGored, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1For the record, Al Gore invented Linux: http://www.AlGoreLabs.com
- chris86wm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0pretty cool
- DeMarko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0old old old old dupe
-2 diggs - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Old. Been of Digg before.
But, I still Digg it because it's cool. - themulf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I never yelled dupe on this site, so allow me to say it.
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