TheGuyWithSticks

By S3, I mean the Samsung Galaxy S3, which outshines (hardware/spec wise) any current Nexus, all brands included. If you disagree, please supply me with a link to the Nexus it doesn't beat. And yes, I know there are several Nexuses (Nexi?). I do agree that the OP needs to be more specific with what he wants in a phone in order to get better help. Then again, he said he likes to dabble, by which I still recommend the Nexus, by which I mean the latest Nexus which fits your needs.

What I meant, and probably should have phrased it as, only run MITM attacks and DNS spoofing against notified, and with approval from, clients. Otherwise it's illegal. As for actually seeing the Pineapple perform its base function (having clients who connect to open SSID's connect to the Pineapple instead), go to a public place. He said he wasn't seeing anyone connect. That part isn't illegal.

Preface: only use against clients with prior notification and approval. The pineapple usually only grabs clients who are attempting to connect to an open SSID. Try going to the airport or starbucks.

I understand you're trying to break even, but maybe a price drop if you don't get it sold? Yours is LNIB, while the Hak Shop has it actually new, for $0.01 less. The only difference for me is (I'm assuming other places are similar), is I'd save maybe $5 shipping if I bought it from you. Just a suggestion, and good luck getting it sold.

Depends on what you use it for. The S3 has better hardware, but the screen is too big for my taste. I dabble in Android development and hacking, and will now only buy future Nexuses (Nexi?). Reason being is they will get updates first and be supported longest, and they're ridiculously easy to root and flash custom firmware on it. I do like the HTC phones (good hardware on some, don't like the removable battery on others), but certain carriers disable rooting via the easy way, and you have to rely on hacks to get rooted, which takes awhile to develop.

Using port 22 is safe, as long as you've configured your router correctly. You said you're using keys, and not passwords, but make sure you're only using authorized keys, and not just any. To be extra safe, you want authorized keys only, plus passwords, but that's usually overkill unless you're paranoid or in a high risk environment. As for using a different port other than 22, that's referred to as Security through obscurity. I was taught against it because of the basics. If your basics are flawed, no amount of secrecy will save you. And if your system is secure, secrecy won't help since you're good.

I've created several bootable thumbdrives. The easiest, and simpliest, method I've found is to use YUMI.

Yes, they still exist. Quit trying to make me feel old. Granted, they mainly reside in airports, but towns have them, too.

I tend to seed when I'm not at the computer and/or using the internet. I haven't had time to take it for a spin, but at least my share ratio is averaged at 3.1

Currently downloading (and have been for a couple of days). Slow, but that's to be expected with so few peers. Will report back when it's done.

TrinityRescueKit can also image/clone with mclone. I don't particularly like Mint for the simple reason it's understaffed. If someone has a sick day or two, the whole project can grind to a halt. For beginner friendly distros, I recommend Fedora, which is essentially a testing bed for Red Hat. It's backed by a corporation so a lot of the bugs tend to get ironed out, if not before it gets to Fedora, definitely soon after so it won't affect RHEL. If you really want to learn, try Arch Linux, which starts you on the command line and you install and configure everything. Sounds scary first, but the wiki and documentation is top notch. All you have to do is read, and it will teach you a lot about Linux.

Thanks for the new inspiration for my rig. Now I feel unprofessional with my backpack. Tried going through airport security with that thing, yet? I would love to see the security detai's faces.

Any word on this?

And Chrome has an even better extension called ScriptNo (their version of NoScript from Firefox). A bit of a pain since you have to enable certain sites, otherwise they won't work. But once everything is setup, it's pretty nice. I would use these two accounts from two different browsers, (firefox and chrome), with both having their ScriptNo/NoScript extensions and running two different proxies. Redundancy is never bad.

Are you also using same hub for the Pineapple? If so, be careful. http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/26911-interesting-power-over-usb/ I kind of feel like these two threads should be stickied, or if not, have a separate thread with known warnings and issues so people don't fry their equipment.