Did anyone else besides me see the write-up about the Sega Dreamcast from DefCon X?
Apparently a couple of security people modified a Linux distribution for the Sega Dreamcast to "phone home" for use during penetration testing - that is, you could drop one of these Dreamcasts in a client's physical site, connect it to the network, and it would establish a VPN with a site outside of the host network. Slick - except it's pretty much limited to pentetration testing only (this is a GOOD thing... :-) since it doesn't hide it's identity entirely - i.e., this thing establishes a VPN (which goes BOTH ways) and has your root ssh key on CDROM in the machine... But it's still slick... imagine it: "You got in? Even with all of our security? How?" "See that thing?" "Oh, that? That's just somebody's toy, right?" "That 'toy' connected to our host on the Internet and established a virtual tunnel into your network...." (ouch!) See http://www.dcphonehome.com/ for more... ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
