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    Episode 8x01

    in Hak5

    Posted · Edited by Mike Chelen

    What was the bit about device specific settings for the Android SDK? Run the server as root with "sudo adb start-server" and it will work fine out of the box.

    Kudos on plunging into Linux! Now if only there were a video editor comparable to Premiere ;)

    Wow great episode! Props to Darren for going Linux this season. Just switched myself, just wish i could play my games on linux. ;( ill deal for now with a separate windows hard drive.

    Keep up the great work Darren, can't wait for this seasons projects!

    Try WINE, and sometimes PlayOnLinux will help to get the WINE settings optimized. It may also be possible to play through VirtualBox, since it supports 3D accel.

    There are some good games for Linux that are worth checking out, they are easiest to install either through the official repositories or PlayDeb.

    Episode 7x17

    in Hak5

    Posted · Edited by Mike Chelen

    Loved the Android segment! Able to make a somewhat useful utility so quickly :)

    Here is the compiled WiFi Scanner APK file if anyone wants to try it, without downloading the source code: http://bit.ly/bXYCAL

    Why are you actually running X on the system when this only drains resources?

    You could use VirtualBox as a headless server (only applies to the closed-source version).

    Or at least a lightweight desktop manager such as Fluxbox (perhaps using Fluxbuntu disto).

    The open source edition actually can be run fine from the command line, though there doesn't seem to be a web interface.

    My personal distro of choice is Proxmox (http://www.proxmox.com). It has a great web front-end and not nearly as much overhead as VirtualBox.

    Looks cool!

    Remote *nix Shell(s)

    in Questions

    Posted

    It would be a nice thing to do, be aware that monitoring usage and traffic can be difficult. For example, files can be encrypted before storage, making their contents completely unknown. Generally, free shell hosts focus on limiting the resources consumed, so that no one account can take up too much disk space, network bandwidth, cpu usage, or memory.

    Software Recommendations For Streaming Audio To Your Website

    in Questions

    Posted · Edited by Mike Chelen

    Streaming to multiple website visitors should be done through software installed on the web server. Icecast for example can be installed on Linux or Windows. Use a local audio player such as VLC that supports the Icecast protocol. The audio is then streamed from your local system to the server, before going out to all the listeners.

    Another option is to use a hosted streaming service, such as Ustream.

    WINE Versus PlayOnLinux

    in Gaming

    Posted

    Im messing with linux atm...and i love it, it's bloody awesome. But until they can run a game (ie any major title) straight out the box from a retailer, in linux without the need to use an emulation or interpretive layer or shell or whatever else you want to argue with, people are not going to readily embrace linux. Why are consoles so popular?...coz games work straight outta the box. Even windows ppl have to contend with possibility of their chosen game not running as it should without a little or a lot of tweaking and even these little trivial problems can cause the most loyal pc gamers to opt for an easier console option... Why should linux be adopted as a gaming platform when we're faced with shit like this.

    a number of free & open source games do work out of the box and install with a few clicks, such as https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games#Nat...0Ubuntu%20Games

    wine has gotten pretty good, the interface might be improved to run automatically for many of the supported windows games

    as the number of linux users grow, more developers may consider native ports, similar to how games are currently released for both pc and console

    Breaking SSL with null characters

    in Security

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    If you apply for a certificate, the certificate authority looks at the common name on the form and contacts the domain owner. The CA ignores the subdomain. The trick is to drop in a null character in the subdomain. If you register, www.paypal.com[null character].thoughtcrime.org, the CA will contact the owner of thoughtcrime.org and issue the cert. When clients like Firefox use NSS to verify the cert, the null character causes them to think the certficate is valid for www.paypal.com because they stop at the null character. Even if the person examines the cert in their browser, it will show www.paypal.com.

    from black hat presentation http://hackaday.com/2009/07/29/black-hat-2...ull-characters/

    probably browsers will be patched soon, still kind of shocking to know such flaws exist

    TrueCrypt Hacked

    in Security

    Posted

    this is a rootkit for the MBR (bootkit) that intercepts the key when entered by the user. the truecrypt encryption has not been broken. it seems they could take more measures against this type of software keylogger though

    Episode 5x24

    in USB Multipass

    Posted

    Hey Darren great episode. I just set up my 8gb usb and it works perfectly. For my splash screen I used this image. The nice thing about is it has so few colors that the picture doesn't get messed up!

    Post your splash screens too!

    hey great idea! how about posting the XPM as well? would be cool to see hak5 related splash screens, made a topic including some here: http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13855

    Grub Splash Screens

    in Community Projects

    Posted

    From S05E24:

    When it comes to customizing Grub its simply a matter of creating a 640×480 – 14 color splash screen image. This is easy to accomplish with the Gimp. Once you’ve created a 640×480 image you can crunch the colors be selecting Image, Mode, Indexed and entering 14 ad the maximum colors. Save this file as a XPM, then gzip it. Copy the gz to the root of your USB drive and prepend “splashimage /image.xpm.gz” to your menu.lst file.

    After all that work to make a USB multipass, why not spruce it up with a Hak5 boot splash image?

    Follow the directions above to make an image in the proper XPM format, and Gzip it to use in Grub. Share it with fellow fans and say goodbye to the monochrome boot selector :D

    Here are a few popular wallpapers converted for Grub:

    Also available for download here.

    linux & windows

    in Questions

    Posted

    i put the linux ubuntu on a disk and i ran it from there but it wasnt giving me a partition on the hard drive to install it on i was able to get to like step 4 i wasnt sure what to do from there can anyone help?

    did you boot from the cd, or put it in while vista was running? for Loony's method (classic dual boot) you must first resize windows partition with the management console, then boot using the cd

    here is one good guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDu...after%20Windows

    for the alternative wubi install mentioned by h3%5kr3w, windows should be running and no partition resizing is needed, because the installer will create a virtual filesystem inside a large file in the windows drive

    Home Server OS

    in Questions

    Posted

    i would use freenas or openfiler both are easy to install and you can add a VPN plugin to both

    how challenging is installation of mediatomb and other media servers under freenas or openfiler??

    Hummm way to revive a year old topic :/

    yeah just noticed that, not sure what happened though since i dont remember going off the first page

    still hear UPnP questions pretty frequently so hope someone finds it useful, install and setup of the server has gotten much more straightforward

    RTS anyone??

    in Gaming

    Posted

    command & conquer for storyline and level of immersion, total annihilation for pure gameplay, starcraft for multi-player, and rome: total war for tactics

    iscsi, really?

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    the way I'd do it (and I have a ZFS zpool with FreeBSD), I'd have to basically carve a chunk out of my zpool and allocate it as an iSCSI target (that is when iSCSI target is finished in FreeBSD). This actually subtracts from the overall storage in the zpool. Even though I'm carving out 20 or 30G, I may only us 15GB in the end, effectively wasting about 15G of space.

    think it depends on the situation, in your case the iscsi would be sort of redundant since the drives are already part of a zpool

    Hak5 on Wuala P2P

    in Community Projects

    Posted

    Uploaded seasons 1-3 of Hak5 to the Wuala P2P filesharing service: http://www.wuala.com/Creative%20Commons/videos/Hak5/

    They use a modified version of the BitTorrent protocol, which works through a web-based or standalone Java client.

    Videos can be streamed over the P2P network into any player:

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    File system integration lets the directories and files be accessed through regular file managers in any OS:

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    Now in the process of uploading season 4, they give you 1gb free and you get more by sharing space on your hard drive, so if anyone wants to help upload recent eps it would be appreciated :)

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