Techie Talk - Uncensored

[#] Fri Jun 04 2010 07:53:58 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

That's true too. And easier to configure than the way I suggested. :)

[#] Mon Jun 07 2010 21:16:21 EDT from Harbard @ Uncensored

Those fancy credit cards with the chips in them are not all that secure:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100415160141.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

[#] Wed Jun 09 2010 07:53:56 EDT from the8088er @ Uncensored

I love how I only got the first 80 characters of that URL but it contained everything needed to get me to the page.

I've often thought about how these RFID chips are unsafe. I'm carrying in my wallet 4 individual RFID enabled cards that someone could probably very easily steal just by brushing up against me. When I pay for stuff using the contactless payment system thing, it doesn't ask you to sign it, enter your PIN, or anything at all. It's just ....... Approved!

[#] Wed Jun 09 2010 11:00:29 EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored

put tinfoil in your wallet, or put the cards in a tinfoil closure.

[#] Wed Jun 09 2010 18:00:31 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

So after some testing magic jack was giving me some choppy voice, but I attirubte that to vmware more than the gizmo or software itself.
But then.... I came home one day and noticed the vm rebooted, and not cleanly. So it didn't start up again. I had to poke it to restart.
I was on a call for work (best test I can think of) and the vm crashed again.
Ok, so much for that.
So I just installed the latest virtualbox, installed xp and installed magicjack.
Hopefully vbox will fare better.

[#] Wed Jun 09 2010 20:26:13 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

wow that was horrible. The sound cuts out 50% of the time, like you get .2 seconds of audio then .2 seconds of dead.
I hope there's some way to get this working....

[#] Thu Jun 10 2010 08:25:55 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Reverse engineer your magic jack software, grab your SIP credentials, and discard the hardware. It's tougher than it used to be but you have exactly the right kind of brain to do it.

http://revolution.hackthisbox.com/component/content/article/2

Asterisk can be tough to set up but you can at least run it on your bare metal Linux OS alongside VMware or whatever hypervisor you're using. And if you need help setting it up, all the assistance you need is right here :)

[#] Thu Jun 10 2010 09:12:28 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

heh, site blocked for "hacking" have to check it when I get home.

[#] Sat Jun 12 2010 08:15:25 EDT from the8088er @ Uncensored

My friend mistakenly added the wrong disk to a RAID array and wiped some data he needs. Any idea on the best way to recover this. It's a PC and likely NTFS formatted.

[#] Sat Jun 12 2010 11:42:57 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Restore the data from his most recent backup, of course.

[#] Sat Jun 12 2010 15:14:51 EDT from the8088er @ Uncensored

If only he had one :-P

[#] Sun Jun 13 2010 18:28:44 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

if you actually wrote over data the only way to get it back if at all is to get one of those $1000 per byte data recovery places to try.
His data isn't THAT important.
If he only wrote over the directory tree, then he should start learning about how filesystems work and try and piece it together himself.
Do they still make sector editors anymore?

[#] Mon Jun 14 2010 14:01:59 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

From the point of view of a unix system, there's no difference between a sector editor and an ordinary hex editor designed to work on files.

[#] Mon Jun 14 2010 22:28:38 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

do hex editors read from block devices directly, as if I wanted to edit the MBR myself.
or are you saying mount the device as a file and do it that way...

[#] Tue Jun 15 2010 00:31:55 EDT from LoanShark @ Uncensored

why not? everything is a file. block devices are random access.

[#] Tue Jun 15 2010 12:36:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Exactly. I once used a hex editor to reconstruct, partition by partition, a Sun disklabel that had been maliciously wiped out by an unauthorized user.
All it takes is a bootable CD with a hex editor loaded, and a knowledge of the device you're trying to reconstruct.

This is of course assuming that the device is not physically malfunctioning.

[#] Wed Jun 16 2010 07:51:29 EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored

http://venturebeat.com/2010/06/13/seamicro-drops-an-atom-bomb-on-the-server-industry/

cluster in a box. 512 atoms in 1/4 closet...

funky shit!

[#] Wed Jun 16 2010 10:21:47 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Hey! He stole my line "[it's] like using the space shuttle to drive to the grocery store." I made that up like ten years ago!

[#] Wed Jun 16 2010 20:12:32 EDT from Ford II @ Uncensored

I think the novelty there is they were willing to build a custom chip.
ANYBODY could have done that since all x86 motherboards still have to have all the same crap on them.
You can chop one of those babies into 1370 pieces and have a kick ass no-pc-left-behind $100 machine.

[#] Thu Jun 17 2010 05:36:52 EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored

That is some impressive hardware. I might need to keep those guys in mind.