/g/ - Technology

Reverse enginering a robotic "pet" dog to act as a security alarm, using python.

Changed the color of my GLMatrix screensaver to a shade of turquoise.

i used cmd once

>>21927641
AIBO?

Chopped up some wood.

I fixed my fridge using duct tape and superglue.

I really can't imagine it's safe to continue using, but... eh.

>>21927641
isnt that reprogramming

i hacked google and squired their ip address

Disassembled the bootloader to the HP/Palm Veer to bypass a certain POST check that causes bricks when it misfires due to a corrupted Touchstone microcontroller.

Porting Android to the Veer and the Pixi, based on the efforts of the moboot and Cyanogenmod teams.

Ported a PAL Wii/Ocarina cheat code to an NTSC game.

Porting the Dalvik and Mono libraries to run in WebOS.

Running plan9 on the HTC Kaiser as both application and baseband firmware.

Porting a version of Android to the Wii thanks to efforts of the Wii/GC Linux dev community.

Not giving a damn.

I have FreeRunner GTA02 with busted LCD, so I patched up a debug board and hooked it all up to an old portable TV. Now it serves as a simple serial terminal. Not too imaginative use of it, but whatever, it's a hack.

>>21927769
>Ported a PAL Wii/Ocarina cheat code to an NTSC game.
I've always wondered how one does this.

>>21927857
It's simple.

Make a RAM dump of both the PAL and NTSC (hereafter "source" and "destination", respectively) versions of the game, virgin (no mods/cheats applied).
I won't walk you through that, but it involves Gecko OS and a USBGecko adapter tool.
You'll have two files from each dump - named [gameid]_DUMP80 and _DUMP90.bin.

Now look up http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Memory_Map and find the offsets in the Source ocarina code. Match them to the right file (dump80 is MEM1; dump90 is MEM2. Most often the codes are loaded in MEM1 space.)

Use the win32console program vbindiff (or your gnu/linux equivalent), load up the two dumps, and use the Go To command to visit the offset in the source dump. In the dump, the beginning of MEM0 will be based at 0, so compensate for this mathematically.
Then use the Search/Find command, in Hex mode, to find the code at that offset. Try searching for eight bytes worth, if not four.

If they now match up (all or most of the red is gone), look at the offset in the destination dump, and use that offset in the new (destination) code.

Sometimes it might glitch, due to some resources being different between regions, but it works for the most part.

>>21927987
>MEM0
I meant, MEM1. Damn my muscle memory for thinking 0 is first.

>>21927987
Wow. That was really informative. Thanks. :D

I used a hatchet to chop wood

>>21927987
>plan 9 phone
Here's an old pic which I've posted here before. Can't produce any new pictures because I fried the battery not realizing that the baseband is also the SMC-equivalent level controller in this phone. Well, I got what I deserved, waiting on a Seidio 1350mAh to come in.

>>21927769
Are you the lycoris guy? With the MS dos guy?

>>21928037
No problemo. I don't mind sharing how things work. It ain't no damned secret, anyway.

>>21928082
Why yes I am. Hello there.

i put my cups in the fridge after using it.

I once ran NMap against my router

Then, proceeded to log on to it

>>21928093
Hi.
I'd just like to say I follow your blog, keep posting if you do something interesting.

I am a hacker: I compiled gentoo from source.

>>21928121
Just for that, I'll post up how to transvert codes between regions on Wii's there. I might as well probably scrap together some things from my other /g/ posts there as well.

>>21928086
When it comes to hacking things, I'm more on the end user side. I know how to install hacks (HBC, CyanogenMod, etc.), but the development/methodology part is alien to me. So I'm keen on any info that will get more on the dev side of things.

>>21927667
>>21928039
Wow you guys these jokes are so funny keep it up.

>>21927613
Haven't you looked at all the desktop threads? Haven't you seen all the tiling WMs? Didn't you know those who use tiling WMs are super secret hackers?

Or at least tell them they are, because that is all they really want out of life

>>21928147
Thanks

>>21927613
> hackery thing

are you a faggot?
are you a man who suck dicks?

or are you a girl?

>>21928190
Fuckin' skiddies.

>>21928202
Former, not the latter.

All of these were assignments for classes, but:

Various malicious buffer overflow attacks in a controlled setting, writing programs that communicate via covert channels.

Nothing too fancy

Frankensteining some old PCs together, had to change the locations of the connectors on Lenovo's stupid Power button LED thing

>>21928275
est hoc fābula mīrābilis, frātrem
I don't do much malish/"blackhat" work myself, but buffer overflows and the like are definitely useful.

>>21928121
Are you SAL by chance?
If so, thanks for the comments here and there.

>>21928365
No, I'm not him. I was in the thread where we convinced you to start one and have visited it regularly since.

>>21928365
I'm honored to be featured on such an interesting blog. :)

I like to install unapproved programs on locked down hardware. I have the Homebrew Channel, a custom trucha-bugged ios and the Backup channel installed, a modded Xbox and a CycloDS card for my DS. I cracked my current Nokia phone to allow for unsigned apps to run and as soon as I get a new Android phone I will probably run a version of Cyanogenmod on it. I'm also running a pirated version of Windows 7, but no doubt so is everybody else around here.

I would say all this fits the loose definition of hacking, but the title of 'hacker' would involve actually developing these programs and exploits.

>>21928465
>Homebrew Channel, custom trucha-bugged ios and Backup Channel installed
on my Wii (derp)

>>21928465
I started this way too.
Every device I get my hands on is eventually rooted, cracked, hacked or sold.
It started with my xbox and WRT54G router (which is driving this very internet connection on Tomato).
I once got interrogated by the cable company for exploring the firmware on our Surfboard SBV4200 (running VxWorks, a pared-down POSIX-like RTOS).

>>21928465
>I would say all this fits the loose definition of hacking, but the title of 'hacker' would involve actually developing these programs and exploits.

Yep. I'm pretty much under that same definition.

>>21928421
Well I'm still alive and so will be the blog.
I'm working on a different (non-hacking) project as well, called Beanstalk, and have some client's websites to design.

>>21928510
>>21928465
Let me remind you that you're no less hackers then I am, mes fratres. By my definition, a hacker is anyone who makes something work out for them or sometimes, others, through unconventional means.

>>21928585
I know, but you are definitely more experienced with it than I am. I aspire to reach that level.

Latina tua mihi placet.

>>21928623
You have "mihi placet" correct I believe, but "your Latin" should be in the Genitive case; "latinae tuae" meaning, "the latin of you", basically.

est fābula mīrābilis, frātrem

I'm no hacker, i'm a skiddie

>>21927613

Interesting stuff ARMv7, link to the blog?

>>21928738
Googled "Lycoris MS DOS" and got this:
http://lycoris.infinity-cubed.com/blog/

>>21928798

Thanks

I've been checking how safe my router is. Cracked it in WEP no problem which is alarming, but after playing around with the newly released Reaver stuff, WPA doesn't even seem that safe. That said I still haven't gained access, but I haven't been at it that long.

>>21928738
>telnet lycoris.infinity-cubed.com 80
>GET /blog/ HTTP/1.1
>Host: lycoris.infinity-cubed.com
>
or for you ordinary folk who don't read HTML through command lines, http://lycoris.infinity-cubed.com/blog/

Working on a wifi cannon. Have five miles so far, working on 10+ this weekend when parts come in.

>>21928844

Blog about the plan9 phone!

>>21928798
Correct.

>>21928838
I recommend you use a mini-server to run a RADIUS instance and dial it in to your router with WPA2 Enterprise.

I sometimes use plain WEP on my router and my key isn't very strong, but this is because the damn Nintendo DS doesn't support anything newer, and ... even though I don't have a DS anymore, changing to WPA2 would disrupt internet connections ... which aren't connected anymore--

I have no justification for using WEP anymore, thank you for making me realize this.

>>21928050
you're awesome <3

>>21928889
Not much to blog about right now, the thing's dead for the time being, what with the battery issues in >>21928050 ;-;

>>21928913
Wow, thank you.

no i work as a web developer i can barely dress myself in the morning and i google everything i need, i didn't go to uni.

If anyone here wants to open into a context of communication with the individual represented herein by this trip-phrase, please direct your attention to the following address of communication:

Direct your electronic mail and requests for textual instant-messaging to:

User t.to.the.square on the Gmail server, commercial domain group.

Verbosity usually defeats spambots.

not me but my dad works for lulsec

>>21929084
0/10.

In other news, read this. It's a cool story about how some dude made a diagnostic out of a GPIO, an LED and morse code implanted in the Linux kernel.

>>21929199
>an LED
I misread, That's what I would've done. This guy used a scope.

oh my god, bumping this epic quality thread.

>>21927769
>>21927987
>>21928050
>>21928145
>>21928343
>>21928365

et cetera

I have the weirdest boner; you can rape my face and my anus (in reverse order too) anytime.
The first tripfag I like.

>>21929747
I have to wonder. Why do I suddenly have a somewhat cult-like following on /g/? It can't just be because I rooted a plan9 install into my baseband, right?

i dont seed my torrents

>>21929896
I seed to 101% minimum.

You talk so much about programming, but you cant talk about hacking because you cant actually do anything. I run a hacked network of computers that I programmed to click on googles ads in my secret website. I even write my own viruses to make people get hacked into my network. I work at home and have a bunch of screens showing me what people on my network are doing on their screens. I can even set it so that i can see the code of their computers. can you guys do any of that? I dont think so. I bet you dont know where all the websites real hackers hang out are either? if you name them, I just might tell them that marshviperX sent you.

>>21929924
I try to seed to 2.00 on public trackers (though if I need bandwidth they're the first to get dropped), and never stop seeding on private trackers.

>>21929934
I hack your hacks and crack your cracks.
I'm the 1337est of the 1337.

>>21929934
Kind of OK pasta but I've ate it so many times it tastes stale.

Well, I am not really a hacker (by whatever definition one might want to use that term), but i have done quite a few things that one could consider hacks, as in: use what you have in a way to make it do stuff it normally cant do.

Programming (I cant program…):
Have to use a fuckexpensive groundwater modelling software. windows only.
So it runs in a VM on a linux machine.
Its too slow (writing ~1GB of text files to & from the HDD per model run, and to fully calibrate it, it had to do a few hundred runs per changed parameter)
So I put the whole thing on a RamDisk, in a VM (retarded, i know, but it works perfectly!)
Realize the program has a bug somewhere, and i cant fix it.
Write a matlab program (the only programming language i know) to pre- and post-process the jiggabites of textfiles (back in linux of course…) to work around the bug in the program.
Find next bug with the new files
Use another (free) modelling program, but keep using the expensive one as visualizer.
Run the free one on linux in wine, called from matlab…

Essentially it is an absolute clusterfuck (as is my documentation for it) but it worked (kinda…)