As already told here (german), netcat is a pretty useful tool for nearly everything – even for doing backups. This time I want to take a deeper look at it.
Handy memory blues
My Nokia N70 mobile phone is one of those devices whose memory can be extended by some kind of flash cards. Those cards are a nice option for storing software or multimedia files – as long as it’s ok. In case of damaged memory, the phone crashes. Such crashes occur on read/write of the flash card and the […]
It’s not that they’re not out there…
My honeypots are located at static IPs, because they do not run on dedicated machines. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but those traps are getting known to botnet kiddies, as ‘common’ writes at the Nepenthes page. Because of them avoiding our ranges it is getting harder and harder for getting good samples every day.
Natürliche Auslese unter Autofahrern
Klingt zwar etwas eigenartig, wenn ein eingefleischter Biker über die natürliche Auslese unter den Autofahrern schreibt, aber als Aussenstehender kann man doch einige offenbar natürliche Ausleseverfahren beobachten, mit deren Hilfe sich die Autofahrerpopulation in einem einigermaßen erträglichen Rahmen hält. Da wäre zuerst einmal die sogenannte oder auch “Baumauslese”, welche auf ein recht einfaches, ökologisches Prinzip rückführbar ist. Dazu […]
Autodetecting swap space
Working with embedded systems brings a whole world to you and it might be that you have to adapt certain things to your current environment which might not be avaliable all the time like special devices or discs. In my case it was an optional card for a swap partition. How do you recognize it?
Touchscreens via USB
Touchscreens with linux can be quite a pain – even at the serial port. Since I am working at a project with an USB touchscreen, I have had to dig into it. The result: A touchscreen connected at the USB port gives – as many HID devices do – an event device. To be able to work with […]