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Umm, probably around 4 - 5 years although I'm not sure exactly. I've never had a problem with them at all and they have brilliant Customer Service and Broadband Service as well. They might not be the cheapest but they're certainly worth the money.

I'd just like to say........INTERNODE FOR THE FUCKING WIN.

I completely agree, I normally fix all my and family/friends computer issues so having Telstra sniffing around my PC wouldn't be a problem, plus the likelyhood that Telstra would give Linux support is pretty slim. I can just imagine now... Telstra Employee: "So all I need you to do now is click on your Start Menu, go to Accessories and then click on Remote Assistance." Me: "I don't have a Start Menu, I'm using Linux (puts on Sunglasses, backflips onto motorbike and rides off into the distance)"

When I was 15 I started playing with batch scripts at my school and found it utterly boring to say the least, then I found a way to access the network drives and run applications remotely however access them locally. Needless to say we installed Firefox and many other applications, in the process getting banned from the network for a few weeks. I started to play with batch files a lot more and found that while it was boring I was learning stuff. I then moved onto hackthissite.org and started to learn HTML and Javascript. After I'd pretty much learnt them I started to learn PHP which at the time was extremely hard. From their moved onto Wi-Fi hacking which eventually made me convert to Linux. I use Metasploit regularly and know bits of C and such. I know Cryptography fairly well as well. I'm 17 now and I'm considering a career in Computer Science which a few years ago I would have never done. Moral of the story is everyone is a skiddie for a while. /stimulates ego.

For people that don't know that code above strips the NULL ('\0') away from the end of the string. Otherwise the strcmp() wouldn't work. Took me a while to realise that >.<"

Dual core phone :o Now that would be very, very interesting to see. Anyone noticed how phones are already becoming more powerful than the iPad. Fail Apple Fail.

True but it has been successfully overclocked to 1150Mhz and don't forget you've got a DSP in there as well.

Mmm it's rather amazing and also relatively cheap (about $500) when comparing its power to price. Interesting links here... Android Port Wikipedia Nokia Page

Reckon I'll set up an Untangle (or something very similar) server/router that drops packets once it reaches a certain speed.

I'd suggest Maemo on the N900, that thing is basically a Linux distro wrapped up in a touchscreen UI. They are powerful as hell. You can dual boot Android on it if you really wanted to and it has a fantastic open source user community.

Text browsing is the way of the future.

Beej's Guide to C Programming is a free book that is pretty good considering it's free. As for the non-free side of things I'd suggest 'Let us C' by Yashwant Kanetkar, it's how I got started learning C and I'm so glad I chose his book to help me.

You could probably use fdisk to kill the partition table and then reformat. You'd want to be careful with doing that though, as digip said if you choose the wrong device you could end up formatting your hardrive.

My school used Novell software as well, their was this really neat hack where you could make a few changes to the registry and that would enable the messaging software for the Novell network. We had soooo much fun randomly messaging people halfway across the school.

The psgroove exploit doesn't work anymore I don't think cause Sony released an update a few days ago which would probably disable this. Might want to check though. Also my friend used his N900 to sploit his PS3 using the psgroove source code. Check out other machines that you can do it from.

Hahaha, AES-Twofish-Serpent. Now that is something I would love to see someone do :D

You are quite right it would be a lot more secure however very slooooooooow. That's why Blowfish or Twofish would be better in this case because both are faster than AES. Then when you encrypt the keyfile/password with RSA you get the security of RSA coupled with the speed of Blow/Twofish.

Depending on the key length RSA can be a lot more secure than AES-256. Personally I would have encrypted in Blowfish or something like that and then encrypted the keyfile/password with RSA. This would sacrifice a tiny bit of security in exchange for speed. Of course this depends on how much you're trying to encrypt.

Any malware author that uses Visual Basic to write malware, is not a real malware author.... just sayin.

The Quicktime metasploit module has hit the servers. Get in quick before they patch it. http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/..._marshaled_punk

to alleviate all the capital letters i am typing this in lowercase lettering.

First of all, this smells incredibly fishy as stated above. Second of all, instead of asking us why don't you go and learn how todo it yourself. Third, What programs run on the XP machines. For example do they have Microsoft Access from which you can run macros's that can spawn command prompt Windows. Also there was a new exploit released in the past week that can exploit an XP machine with Quicktime on it from a remote location.

Have a look at KON-BOOT, it was feature in Hak5 episode 518.

Personally I reckon you should fork out for a VPS... I bought mine for $30 USD for 6 months from Virpus Networks and they seem to be OK considering how cheap they are. You will have to manage the VPS yourself so make sure you know how to Linux before buying one as their is no control panel included in the cost. If you really don't want to fork out there is always Tor or HotSpot Shield which are easy to setup however very, very slow.

http://wpacracker.com is really awesome but it's not guaranteed to work and it costs money for every pcap file you submit.