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Macbook Air hacked in under 2 minutes

Posted by hank, Sun Mar 30 12:12:00 UTC 2008

So, at the PWN2OWN contest, a MacBook Air was hacked in under 2 minutes. A Vista machine was also hacked a little later, but the Ubuntu machine stood strong despite various attempts. Just goes to show that Macs are definitely not as invincible as many people keep saying they are…

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Disabling auto-off on a Sunbeam Health at Home heating pad

Posted by hank, Wed Dec 12 20:29:00 UTC 2007

WARNING! DON’T BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE!
USE CAUTION! TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK!
YOU WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY!

So, I got this heating pad at the store a while back to use as a hedgehog heating pad. I found out that the 2-hour auto-off timer was hardcoded into the circuit, and they didn’t even bother to put a switch on the casing to disable it. Typical overprotection of the consumer - this wouldn’t exist if our country was a bit less litigious…

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Hacking a WRT54G v8 With DD-WRT

Posted by hank, Sat Oct 06 11:20:00 UTC 2007

So, last month sometime, BrainSlayer got DD-WRT working on version 8 of the WRT54G. Now this was great news to me when I read it since I’ve been wanting to get rid of the crappy LinkSys management from the beginning. Some of the procedure worked, and some of it didn’t for me.