February 2007
Monthly Archive
Warning: anyone with a laptop and a wireless access could commit a terrorist act
Posted by rene on 19 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: ... ? ...
This is something. Just heard that Vancouver , yeah, this town in Canada, decided to create a city-wide wireless network. For public use, great. I think so, I'm not sure about who is destroying Which spectrum range where in this case (just see the list of free networks there ), and if this 'free' than is free as in beer or whatever, but: There is a bigger problem.
Did you knew that anyone in Vancouver with a laptop and a wireless net ... can [1] . Yes, you did? Damned. Crazy people over there. And high-skilled to. Or, as the image shows, there might also be a graphical interface for interfering with the train system - so its suitable for newbie terrorists, eeh, model railway fans too? Incredible. Dream of it, never waiting for train, just take one. And go wherever you like.
But as usually if something new is so great, there are always people Which have to complain about it. For instance this Mark Fenton , who got a job there as a detective in the Computer Crime Unit - Internet Investigations at the Vancouver Police Department and now is against web-interfaces for terrorists, or so. I do not get it!
Virtual Identity extension 0.4.0pre released
Posted by rene on 17 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: hacking , virtual id
It has ... been a long while since I programmed the extension load bits for the Virtual Identity. With Virtual Identity you can create an identity while writing an email in Thunderbird, without using the usual settings interface on the fly '. It's really handy if you have your own domain and use different email addresses for different recipients, for instance to preventDefault spam.
But, the extension was not compatible with the upcoming Firefox 2.0. And as much as I like the program, I missed the often requested feature to scan headers for reply addresses. So I had to change it. And what a long way, at the end I decided to write the whole thing once again. Viola, there it is, the preview is ready and can be downloaded virtual_identity-0.4.0pre-mz + tb.xpi
Features of the new version:
- smoother integration into the Thunderbird interface
- use specified mail headers for Smart Reply feature (needs installed enigmail mnenhy or extension)
- allow saving of drafts / templates keeping stored Virtual Identity (requires Thunderbird 2.0)
- compatible with Thunderbird 2.0
sounds good? Ok, than try it, and please report any bugs or problems. And feel free to contact me if you like to translate the extension in your language ...
Opennet firmware 0.11-11 / 0.9-ON4 released
Posted by rene on 17 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: hacking
wow lost, not only in cyberspace, I forgot a lot of friends (sorry, will, happen not again 
), I also forgot to announce the final release of the OpenNet firmware. So hope this will happen not again. So there late but then, the announcement: Opennet firmware released 0.11-11. It's now compatible with the OpenWRT release 0.9 but can also be used on rc5 or rc6 as the former versions. And as usually, the complete firmware is also available, its now the ON4 release.
If you have any questions how this might be useful for you firmware, or why not, feal free to ask.
