K, you are right. It looks to me like they are packaging already available opensource security auditor tools and making them available with a GUI that is useable on the N770/800 form factor screen. Most of these tools have a command line interface and I have to assume that much of their software development effort was to make the tools more "point and click". Several of these toolkits (e.g. backtrack) are already available as "live-CD's" so I would expect that a "live-MMC" version of such a toolkit could also be created and I would be surprised if this company were not already working on one for the N800. Best Regards, John Holmblad ktneely at astroturfgarden.com wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:03:59PM -0500, Jonathan Greene wrote: > >> agree this would make a cool utility with our tablets... pretty >> sure aircrack exists already >> > > Yup, I insstalled, those tools originally, but have not re-installeed since the last flash upgrade. Those kind of tools would be great on a bootable flash card. > > Anyway, I have mixed feelings about the Pen Test device. I think the price tag is high, but it sounds like they have put togeher a good product and if they provide good support as well, then people will definitely pay for convenience. I cannot off the top of my head think of its uses for law enforcement, but I am sure they exist. > > I do not agree with not making the device public. I know that there are more dangerous devices in the wild, so making this modded 770 slightly difficult to obtain does not protect anyone. > > My last thought is that any security admin worht his or her salt should be able to put something like this together without too much trouble. Where I see this company possibly making an interesting device is a version that is nearly the same but includes a dedicated processor for breaking encryption, like those old DES-busters a few years back. That would be interesting. > > Now I kind of want to see what I can put together on my 770 but I know i don't have the time. Hmm, I guess that's where their market it, huh? ;) > > K > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070209/8de61c42/attachment.htm
