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“Planting spycams in bathrooms and dress-rooms” is old fashioned? Try “In students Macbooks”!!
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Apple, Criminology, Exploring Computerism, Hacks, MAC vs PC, OS, SECURITEEH!!! on February 20, 2010
Boy, I can imagine how things will turn out like if this happened in Kuwait =P
Long story short,
Some students in some high-school in USA noticed that their Macbook webcam’s green light is turning on and off randomly. So they’re suing the school for those perverted admins that peeks through the webcams remotely…
PEDOBEAR IS INNOCENT!! PEDOBEAR IS INNOCENT!!!
Now remember kids, not even OSX can protect you…
Operation “Im in ur interwebz”: ABORTION!! ABORTION!!!!!
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Announcements, Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, Kuwaitism, SECURITEEH!!! on February 1, 2010
Due to some circumstances, I had to abort my mission…
It was a wild run, I discovered funny and awesome things… But the journey must come to an absolute end due to some future plans that would benefit the blog, the blog readers and probably myself…
It was an educating mission… I’ll keep my research’s findings to myself… But one thing to be said: Packet sniffing while VoIP is fun!!
I’ll (for sure) invest in other operations for educational purposes only =D
Operation “Im in ur interwebz”: Day Two
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Announcements, Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, Kuwaitism, RAND(), SECURITEEH!!! on January 7, 2010
Well, I haven’t done anything yet because I’m handling the 23:00~07:00 shift and due to some life issues (Yes, I was going out with Dragos, my friend and got late) I arrived around 00:00…
In any event, I couldn’t work on my operation today because, well, there’s no much computers to poke around with. Though I figured out a good thing to do considering my current tools.
Y’see, Virtual PC doesn’t abuse my resources but the image becomes really slow. To over come this, I came up with this ultimatistic (I know that’s not a word!) solution: Just let the virtual computer poison and keep the host sniff and wiff…
In this scenario, the image make use of the LAN interface which the computer uses too. Which means I can sniff data coming to my laptop and my virtual image. So I don’t have to abuse the virtual computer and let it ONLY starts ARP-POISONING while let the laptop starts sniffing and storing data in my laptop (Saves me pain moving them from the virtual computer to my host computer) and use real resources rather than virtual ones.
And because I haven’t poked around with things related to our VoIP system, I haven’t been able to record others calls (Which I should try soon). So I’ll keep you guys up-to-date.
Right now, I’m going to try some tools I’ve just found… Not sharing names yet, but when I get things done, I might actually consider sharing =D (They keyword here is “might”)…
Operation “Im in ur interwebz”: Day one
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Announcements, Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, Kuwaitism, SECURITEEH!!!, Technology on January 5, 2010
At first, I was at Mishref’s Starbux yesterday where I decided to commence that operation.
What I did there? I just downloaded the needed softwares so I can actually work on it.
I couldn’t actually work it because there was some high queue at work that I didn’t have enough time for myself anywhere before 23:00 (Which I start by 19:00).
And because all the departments are connecting in the same network, I had to becareful what to poison and what not to, so I was limited to poisoning two or three entries because my department only had few computers working and it’s awkward (And there’s a camera up there) to go out to each computer, turn it on (Rubbing it gently ofcourse), get the IP Address and insert that in my entry.
With that little amount resources, I’ve been able to tell that I can actually pull off something… I just need to target it on a larger scale which tomorrow wouldn’t be a good option since I’ll be handling the 23:00~07:00 shift and there won’t be anyone around to practice things on… So I might find me some new tools to dig some data (Probably tools that would re-construct transferred files).
So far, I haven’t been noticed AT ALL because, well, I only poked around a real small target…. Baby steps… Baby steps…
I’ll keep you guys updated of what I’ve pulled off and if there’s a way I can think of for them to prevent what I’m doing…
Operation “Im in ur interwebz”… It shall be commenced soon…
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Announcements, Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, Kuwaitism, Linux, Microsoft, OS, SECURITEEH!!!, Windows on January 4, 2010
Well, I haven’t been geeking around for a god damn while… So I might start doing so…
Anyway, Since I planned on going abroad (Canada) to do my studies, and I hate my job so bad that it’s frustratingly not funny to have to work there until atleast June 2010 (I need one year of of working experience in a single work), I thought of tapping into my network.
Tapping into networks isn’t a new thing to me, I got good enough tools to apply MITM in most of the networks I’ve been in without being noticed… And most of’em are public WiFi’s… And god knows what I’ve been able to pull off… Muahahahahaha…
Why I’m doing this, you ask? Well, I’m bored… And I want to poke around with something… Ofcourse, I’m not bullying or abusing anyone, I’m just doing this for personal education purposes…
And since I work in some Helpdesk, I receive phone calls and answer them using CISCO VoIP phones… And because the calls are recorded and I’m only allowed to listen to them at the supervisor’s desk and can’t take’em back home with me, I thought “Why can’t I?”…
Poking around here and there, and I’m now able to record them and take them back home with me without being able AT ALL because I’m not sending anything… I’m just sniffing the packets I’m receiving and extracting the calls from’em using some tools (I actually got some extremely funny calls… I’M NOT SHARING!!!)
And because I’m living in a shitty department that some are digging holes for others (And stupid curiosity), I HAVE to know what’s going on around my department, so I’m extending this a mile or two to tap into my department’s network and see what’s going to happen… If things weren’t detected, I’ma extend it even further and tap into departments around me…
I will, ofcourse, share some of my findings and adventures here… And as a starter, I’ll list what I’m going to use (So far):
1) Microsoft Virtual PC… I don’t want them to know that my laptop is actually doing that… So using a virtual machine is a good bet
2) Windows XP… So far, my tools are all Windows-based… I need to study the Linux-based ones more so I can convert
3) ARP-INJECTION tool… I’m not mentioning the name… If I did, readers will abuse MITM attacks and people will find a way prevent this (If it’s not already available).
4) Winpcap… Most of my tools rely on that
5) Wireshark… I just have to have it around… Habit
Right now, I’m installing WindowsXP in my virtual machine… I might need to actually dedicate a kick-ass computer and turn it into a virtual lab >_>
“Change the name? Why didn’t I think of that!?”
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Apple, Criminology, Music, RAND() on November 21, 2009
Well, the story goes like this:
The guys behind iPodRip got blocked and served by Apple. So the big boss of that App sent Steve Jobs a message asking assistance and guidance in such scenario.
Here’s the letter that iPodRip guys sent:
Dear Mr. Jobs,
My name is John Devor and I’m the co-owner of a small Mac shareware company named The Little App Factory and a long-term Apple customer and shareholder. I doubt you’re aware but we recently received a letter from a law firm working on Apple’s behalf instructing us that we had violated several of Apple’s trademarks in our application iPodRip and asking us to cease using the name and Apple trademarks in our icons.
We have been distributing iPodRip since 2003 with the aim of providing a method to recover music, movies and photos from iPods and iPhones in the event of a serious hardware failure on their Mac which leads to data loss. Our goal has been to provide the highest quality product coupled with the highest quality service in a bid to resolve some of the angst that is generated by such an ordeal; service befitting of an Apple product. In this department we think we have succeeded as we have approximately 6 million customers, many Apple employees, music artists and other notable people in society. In fact I’d argue that our customer service is the best of all competing applications in our niche as many of them are scams and frauds that leave Apple customers with a terrible taste in their collective mouths. We fear very much that tens of thousands of Apple customers looking to recover their own music and having heard of our product via word-of-mouth or otherwise, will instead find a product produced by one of our competitors, and will wind up the victim of a scam (one closely-named competitor charges a hidden monthly fee, for instance).
It is quite obvious that we mean Apple no harm with the use of the name iPodRip, or of the inclusion of trademarked items in our icons, and in fact I believe that we have been providing an excellent secondary service to Apple customers that has potentially caused you many repeat clients. In fact, we are quite aware that Apple support and store staff have recommended our software on numerous occasions as far back as 2004 so we have felt that we were doing something right!
With this in mind, we are in desperate need of some assistance and we beseech you to help us to protect our product and our shareware company, both of which we have put thousands upon thousands of hours of work into. Our company goal is to create Mac software of the highest quality with the best user experience possible. I myself dropped out of school recently to pursue a path in the Mac software industry, and you yourself have been a consistent inspiration for me.
If there is anything at all you can do with regards to this matter, we would be most grateful.
Best,
John Devor
Where Steve Jobs only replied with:
Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.
Steve
Sent from my iPhone
Which they did… To “iRip”
But when you think about it, Steve Jobs could’ve been nicer and sent’em a longer message…
I know because I’ve been through this somehow; I sent my supervisor a damn long email explaining a case I’ve experienced and asking him to guide me through it and\or carry it on… I’d so post the email content in here, but I can’t due to work’s confidentiality… Though he only replied with “I will call the customer, thank you.” >_>
How NOT to use sharpies…
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Criminology, FUN!, RAND(), SECURITEEH!!!, Stupidity, Weirdness on November 1, 2009
Here’s how I imagined things:
Victim: Police?
Police: Yes, how may I help?
Victim: Two failure thieves are trying rob my house!
Police: How do they look like?
Victim: Like JigglyPuff painted on their face.
Police: What? Oh… OH MY GOD I GOTTA SEE THIS!!
*Few hours later after finding their car and pulling them over*
Police: Who do you think you are painting your face like this?
The two theives: BATMEN!!!
Shit happens: Programming error gives x8 radiation dosage when CT scan
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Criminology, Hacks, Meds, RAND(), SCIENCE!!, SECURITEEH!!!, Technology on October 15, 2009
This reminds me of Dr.Becker when Linda took an X-Ray image of her boob ring… First episode 
(Minute 2:20 in the video below)
Some hospital in USA overridden some CT Scanner’s software which caused the scanner pew pew 8 times the normal (correct) amount of radiation that the CT scan should give for 18 month.
Symptoms for radiation infection are showing up on the victims such as hair loss.
I hope no one would grow a third boob
Recover your FireFox master password!!
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Criminology, Exploring Computerism, FUN!, Hacks, RAND(), SECURITEEH!!! on September 6, 2009
Basically, this is a bruteforce tool to crack Mozilla Firefox’ master password for all your passwords (That, if you made one and lost it)…
I’m quite sure I’m gonna need that for future purposes…
Click here to read Lifehacker’s post.
Windows7sins.org … Made me laugh so hard!!
Posted by Loolykinns Teh P1r473 in Apple, Criminology, FUN!, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, OS, RAND(), SECURITEEH!!!, Stupidity, Technology, Windows on August 30, 2009
By now, everyone knows I’m a Microsoft fanboy… Why? Because what I need is there… Even though I use Linux for other stuff…
This campaign is more personal than general… Which really shows how idiotic things are…
I’m going to quote things written in there partly and talk about each part…
The logo: “Windows 7 Sins, The case against Microsoft and proprietary software”…
Why Microsoft in italic and yellow background? Is Microsoft a software? No, they’re a company… So why targeting a company and proprietary software? Why not, ummm, EA? UbiSoft? Apple? Konami? Why specifically Microsoft?
Carrying on, I’ll discuss the “Abuse Examples” that “windows7sins.org, the Free Software Foundation” believe that Microsoft committed.
1) Poisoning education:
Today, most children whose education involves computers are being taught to use one company’s product: Microsoft’s. Microsoft spends large sums on lobbyists and marketing to corrupt educational departments. An education using the power of computers should be a means to freedom and empowerment, not an avenue for one corporation to instill its monopoly.
I personally prefer using Microsoft’s office formats and software since they’re better for me… Easier to deal with and much faster… Which reminds me of a scenario that happened few years ago. I tried to create a powerpoint presentation in OpenOffice (Don’t know whats the equivalent for OpenOffice), and took so much effort and time. And ended up slow and annoying… Switched to Microsoft’s PowerPoint and life got easier… What’s the difference? Microsoft provide ease of use for some cash, OpenOffice doesn’t… I personally prefer paying some cash for something that would ease my life…
Which gets us back to education; you have two options:
1) Provide a sluggish software that would make things harder for students to do their stuff (HW, presentations… etc)… But hey, it’s free!
2) Provide a software that would make things easier and faster for students to do their stuff… With a price!
The choice is actually yours; If you want to struggle just to make a spreadsheet, don’t pay and go with OpenOffice… If you want to do things faster and proper, pay up and use Microsoft’s Office (Or probably others as well)
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not disrespecting OpenOffice and the whole FSF, its just that an experience I went through which made me think twice about OpenOffice.
Another thing I’d like to add is that Microsoft is now opening more for other vendors… Might not open up with Windows 7 and Office, but they actually opened up more with other stuff… Silverlight? Mono? PHP toolkit for ADO.NET or whatever? Might take them a while, but they ARE opening up more than before…
2) Invading Privacy:
Microsoft uses software with backward names like Windows Genuine Advantage to inspect the contents of users’ hard drives. The licensing agreement users are required to accept before using Windows warns that Microsoft claims the right to do this without warning.
C’mon… Get real… How do you want Microsoft to check whether your Windows is Genuine or not without installing this software? Oh I forgot, your OS is free and open, you don’t worry about this issue… But Windows isn’t, Microsoft worries about this issue… As you all know, they invest alot of money and efforts to publish such OS, which, they have to make sure no one is pirating it… It’s not invading privacy… You want to check? Packet sniff your network and see if original Windows (With WGA ofcourse) will leak sensitive\private data…
3) Monopoly Behavior:
Nearly every computer purchased has Windows pre-installed — but not by choice. Microsoft dictates requirements to hardware vendors, who will not offer PCs without Windows installed on them, despite many people asking for them. Even computers available with other operating systems like GNU/Linux pre-installed often had Windows on them first.
True to that… But hey, Apple does the same… Why not mentioning Apple’s Mac OS X? Oooh, Redhat and SUSE are as well… Yes, Microsoft is monopolizing PC, but Apple is monopolizing Mac computers (Now thinking about it, they’re both PC)… Why not aim at Apple as much as you aim at Microsoft? Why not aim at Redhat? Yes, they’re providing Fedora, but Redhat isn’t free! Same goes with SUSE…
Beside, you can always install Linux or whatever OS you want… You can always assemble your own PC and install your desired OS… And when it gets to laptops, they’ve been recently providing Linux or no OS… Some provide, some doesn’t… So quit whining…
4) Lock-in:
Microsoft regularly attempts to force updates on its users, by removing support for older versions of Windows and Office, and by inflating hardware requirements. For many people, this means having to throw away working computers just because they don’t meet the unnecessary requirements for the new Windows versions.
True to that, but that didn’t happen with Windows 7 (The one you’re making a big fuss about)… Y’know, Microsoft stated that Windows 7 works with whatever works with Windows Vista… Leaving Windows XP aside because, well, it’s a legacy…
Let me discuss this in another approach: You have a Pentium IV and you want to play a, ummm, Crysis… You’d need to fundamentally upgrade your hardware to play that game… Why? Because the game requires better hardware specs to operate… Why not going nuts over Video games? Why just Microsoft Windows?
Same thing goes with almost every software; there’s minimum requirement so the software can operate the way it meant to be… But there’s always few workarounds to let something work with lower specs… But hey, here’s some specs that Windows 7 works with:
1GHz processor (32-bit and 64-bit)
1GB of RAM for 32-bit, 2GB of RAM for 64-bit
16GB free of your HDD for 32-bit, 20GB free of your HDD for 64-bit
A video card that supports DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0
Literally, can work on almost ANY computer\laptop that has Pentium IV and above… Yes, Linux demands less, but Windows demands more… What’s the problem?
5) Abusing Standards:
Microsoft has attempted to block free standardization of document formats, because standards like OpenDocument Format would threaten the control they have now over users via proprietary Word formats. They have engaged in underhanded behavior, including bribing officials, in an attempt to stop such efforts.
Oh, really? I’d like to quote something from Wikipedia (Ironically):
Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats (ECMA-376) have become the default file format of Microsoft Office.[14][15] However, due to the changes introduced in a later version, Office 2007 is not entirely in compliance with ISO/IEC 29500:2008.[16][17][18][19] Microsoft has stated that the planned Microsoft Office 2010 will be the first version to implement the ISO/IEC 29500:2008 compliant version of Office Open XML.[17][18][19]
And the WORD issue in Microsoft is another case, it’s just that they used something (Something related to XML tags) from another vendor and things are turning against Microsoft even though there’s some hope that WORD might live… Don’t mix up something with another…
6) Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM):
With Windows Media Player, Microsoft works in collusion with the big media companies to build restrictions on copying and playing media into their operating system. For example, at the request of NBC, Microsoft was able to prevent Windows users from recording television shows that they have the legal right to record.
True, but Microsoft isn’t the only party thats enforcing DRM… Apple? The RIAA?
7) Threatening user security:
Windows has a long history of security vulnerabilities, enabling the spread of viruses and allowing remote users to take over people’s computers for use in spam-sending botnets. Because the software is secret, all users are dependent on Microsoft to fix these problems — but Microsoft has its own security interests at heart, not those of its users.
Oh please, Windows has a black history of security issues, which is why you keep thinking Microsoft is as vulnerable as before… Check Windows Vista’s malwares and vulnerabilities count and compare them to Windows XP… Do you notice the big difference?
As if Microsoft wants this to happen, every OS is vulnerable… No exception… It’s only a matter of time and amount of user to actually float those vulnerabilities to the surface… Same goes with Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, Symbian, Android, iPhone OS… etc…
And no, users aren’t dependable on Microsoft to fix these problems, we’re actually dependent on Anti-Viruses vendors to keep us safe. Microsoft had issues with security, but they dramatically improved.
On the other hand, Apple started to gain more share and attention… Why not mention Apple? No! We have to blame Microsoft for that… Oh, wait! Adobe Flash had issues as well… So did Linux (Ubuntu)… Just sign to their vulnerability RSS feed and you’ll notice that they find out some every now’n'then…
I repeat:
Don’t get me wrong, I like Linux, GNU and the whole FSF, but I like Microsoft as well… Most of my software (Free or proprietary) runs on Windows… Why proprietary? Because they make my life easier…
I keep Linux to poke around with things…
I’m not disrespecting GNU\FSF… I actually appreciate what they’re doing and would sign and help’em out… But, they’re taking it in a personal matter… They’re generally aiming at proprietary software (Which, I honestly feel like they have the right to do so… After all, Trademark must remain… People worked hard for that)…
But I’m disrespecting the approach they’re taking (Which made me laugh… Such a childish approach)… Why Microsoft specifically? Why Windows 7? Why not Apple? Why not Adobe Flash? Why not Mac OS X?
I’m quite sure alot of people would go nuts after reading this and all… But hey, I’m entitled to my opinion… It’s your choice to take it or leave it…
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