RegRipper

Well... yeah 8) Did that once while in a hotel room in Sydney, had problems with the in-house wireless, but found a "netgear" wireless point when I put my laptop on the TV ;) Other neat places while in Europe was the bathtub (empty of course), had better reception for some reason...

I have the same problem with smoothwall v2 running on a old Gateway PC with no PS/2 ports, I can't get passed part of the install after keyboard setup. Had the same problem with the beta version 3. Ended up using IPcop which worked fine with the USB keyboard, and I only needed it to install it! *Sigh*

Can't say for any other campus/school network, but I can say this for ours... erhm.. as the Sysadmin... I don't care about your mac address, you get a IP address on the DHCP server tied to your mac address, I can see your hostname and your login for your IP address, I can pretty much track you down to a AP or a wired network point... Oh, and as far as TOR goes, we block that using the Netintact Packetlogic box (as well as all P2P). Now if I was using a NAC... you wouldn't get onto the network without the latest updates or a anti-virus scanner installed. Nuf said? ;)

I was in Europe a few years ago, had my 11g card and a Libretto (pitty it's dead now) and I'd connect to the Orange network (hotspots in most cities) and used the credit card to buy time (redirected web page). Some hotels had hotspots and you could buy time (1hr etc) too. I'd find most hotspots with Netstumbler, so take that as well :) Check out the Orange hotspot directory http://orange.hotspot-directory.com/

The USB switchblade is good at that also ;) Just about every computer I plugged it into rebooted, now all the guys in the office don't let me near their PC's if I have a USB stick in my hands! But anyway.... to RESTART Windows XP: SHUTDOWN -r -t 01 to SHUT DOWN Windows XP: SHUTDOWN -s -t 01 no input required (if you use -s -t 01) it will shutdown in one second.

Here is a cool hack, turn a DVD burner's laser diode into a cutting laser. http://www.felesmagus.com/pages/lasers-howto.html Just take a DVD burner, rip out the laser, add a heatsink, lens, and add 3v (two AA batteries) Simple! The laser is just the same as the cutting lasers from Wicked Lasers but for a 1/3rd of the price. I was looking at using a laser module from Oatley Electronics www.oatleyelectronics.com (on the laser page, LASER MODULE - FOCUSABLE) rather then the one suggested on the web site above. Maybe something that could be covered on HAK5 sometime? Sweeet 8)

Yes well, welcome to the world of computer forensics.... I've already had to do it with a server that was port scanning IP's (ended up being a SQL worm) and a server with a root kit installed. Fun. ReG

Dammit... now I need to update our work Security policy to turn off autorun... the switchblade was bad enough. All the guys cover their USB ports now when I walk into the room ;) ReG

Check out blat. You could use that... if port 25 isn't blocked... ReG

Funny enough, I was just working on a use for this. When I saw it, I was more interested in using the same thing to do a security audit on a PC. Currently the script I have (manually run) and I'm modding it to work the same way as the switchblade. This is mainly used to audit a PC if it's been hacked into. It uses some bog standard command line tools included with windows and some from sysinternals. It does the following (with the programs used): * Enumerate Logged On Users (logonsessions) * Get Process Information (pslist, tasklist, tlist, wmic) * Get Loaded Modules for all processes (listdlls, tasklist) * Enumerate Network Information (netstat, nbtstat) * Get Service Information (wmic,sc) * Get Driver Information (wmic, driverquery) * Get useraccount information (wmic) * Get MAC times for all files on C: drive (dir c: /a /s /q /[tw,ta,tc]) * List all files on C: drive (duh.. dir) * Dump Permissions on all files in all directories (cacls) * Check all files on C: for Alternate Data Streams (lads) * Dump the registry to file (reg export) * Dump event logs to file (wmic) Once this information has been collected (onto the USB stick) it can be looked at later. ReG

Duh... to find the Wiki from the main page, you have to go to the goodies section, then click on the "main page" link.... how about a "wiki" button next to the "goodies" button from the front page??? or even link each of the episodes to the show notes from the episode page? Unless you know where to go to find things and considering that people have to ask where things are, then you need to look at your navigation on the web page. Sorry, that's from a web design person's perspective. Reg