Hacker Notes

• Why does Austin Hackerspace use CAcert? Why do I get warnings when browsing to this wiki? Someone answer!
• OpenSSL
• StartSSL - This has a lot of potential. FREE Class 1 certs, $25 Class 2 certs, free DNS hosting, and a beta WOT program. Oh yeah, and it's recognized by Firefox (IE soon?)
• CAcert Free SSL certs based on Assurances and a Web of Trust (WOT)
  • CAcert Root Certificate

• Keysigning Parties and the Web of Trust
• AHS GPG Fingerprint Page

• Wireless Hacking - WPA/WPA2 coming soon

• Linux kernel hacking
• Local root exploit and fix
• Mindtaker's Huge Compendium of Linux Knowledge
• Fedora 10 on a Macbook Pro

• Tor - Use it, love it.
• Truecrypt - Create an encrypted drive and read/write to it on the fly. Works well with USB drives. Now supports full disk encryption!!
• KeePass - Store all of your passwords in an encrypted vault.
• SSH Tunnel - Use an SSH server and SSH tunneling to defeat firewalls and encrypt your internet traffic.
• nmap - The granddaddy of all portscanners.
• The Basics - Don't forget the basics: ping, traceroute, dig, etc.
• encFS - Nice filesystem-level encryption
  • encFS HOWTO
• Random Password Generator - nice way to quickly generate a lot of random passwords (BUT TRAVELS UNENCRYPTED!)
• Mailinator - Nice companion to BugMeNot

• TrueCrypt - Now with ability to encrypt a system partition/drive!
• encfs - A bit hard to get working, but ultra-simple once set up.

• A great alternative to the very good, but rarely updated dd-wrt is the Tomato firmware. It's not as pretty as dd-wrt, but it has all the same features, with some extras like working QoS, wireless site survey, and bandwidth monitoring.
• X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio (XCSSA) - A very cool show-and-tell style user group, which has just merged with the hardware hacking group.
• Using a PIC to debounce a cheap switch
• Citizen Engineer - New online video series about open source hardware, electronics, art and hacking by Limor (Ladyada) Fried of Adafruit Industries & Phillip (pt) Torrone of MAKE magazine.
• Binary / POV Wristwatch - Very cool! Let's design our own PIC-based LED wristwatch
• BeagleBoard - Beagle Board is an ultra-low cost, high performance, low power OMAP3 based platform designed by BeagleBoard.org community members and sold by Digi-Key
• Gumstix - Gumstix, inc. makes the world's smallest full function, open source computers
• blackdog?
• Make magazine's guide to open source hardware projects in 2009
• XBee Notes - Notes on Digi's XBee module

• FTDI TTL-232R USB pinout
• ID-12/20 RFID reader

VoIP info.

• fwd
• voxalot

• AACS keys:
  • 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
  • 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2

• OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
• RoadRunner - Austin: 24.93.41.127, 24.93.41.128
• Rimuhosting - Dallas: 72.29.96.250, 207.210.212.202, 207.99.0.2
• OpenDNS
• DNS-O-Matic

• Dan Kaminsky's DNS Vulnerability Information (VU#800113 / CVE-2008-1447)

• QEMU - HOWTO soon!, also lightweight, requires no reboot, with integrated debugger!
• lguest - Lightweight Linux virtualization, requires no reboot, extremely simple, fantastic for sandboxing, quickstart
• Xen
• KVM - Requires hardware support, requires reboot under Xen hypervisor
• UML - Slow, requires special kernel for guests

• Art of Assembly Language - free book, focuses on High-Level Assembly

• Run SSH on non-standard port
• Fail2Ban
• Use a password generator to create secure passwords and use a good password policy

Post stuff under here if you don't know where to put it, or we need to create a new section for it.

• OpenID - Something useful?
• MIT Open Courseware - w0w!
• Molecular gastronomy aka Food Hacking
• http://www.austinlrs.org/community%20Events/legalline.aspx Free Brief legal advice from TX licensed lawyers
• TED: Ideas Worth Spreading - Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world

• Noisebridge
• Hackerspaces

Links - Links to hacker organizations, electronic rights groups, etc.

austinhackerspace.org is a permanent domain and will probably continue to host this wiki. Post ideas and discussion here.

Anyone that wants help/advice, soldering tools, and other stuff to help build the kits/boards: please contact me! Here are my (origin/darkcontrast) suggested purchases for SparkFun's Free Day (Jan 8 10AM CST). These are targeted at novice electronics hobbyists but suitable for everyone:

SparkFun slow at the moment - STILL UPDATING - please check back!!

• Arduino Starter Kit - **highly recommended**
• Simon Soldering Kit
• Tool Kit - Intermediate
• Beginner Parts Kit
• XBee modems (more fun if you have 2+ :)
• Herbie Kit (light-following robot)
• Robotics Kit (note this uses a PIC controller, not an AVR!)
• Digital Oscilloscope DIY kit

In addition, I will help you build a solar MintyBoost for anyone that purchases the major parts listed below. What's a MintyBoost? (From Adafruit:) a small & simple (but very powerful) USB charger for your iPod (or other mp3 player), camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge. One report says not compatible with 3GS, although it can probably be hacked. With SparkFun's free day, you get virtually unlimited, free charging for $20!

• Adafruit's MintyBoost
• LiPoly charger
• 2000mAh LiPoly battery (you can go bigger but it may not fit the Altoids tin)
• JST connector
• small solar cell (again, you can go larger, but it will be a bit unwieldy
• velcro or double-sided adhesive - 3M VHB works well
• Altoids tin