ITN220

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ITN-220

• From here, go anywhere.
• (What do you do next?)

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Prerequisites

• Know the material
• Read the standards
• Brush up on cryptography
• Get on the mailing lists (Gov't, gov't, industry,
  hacker, etc.) - be willing to argue and/or
  explain a point
• Volunteer yourself occasionally (more on this
  later)
• Keep your eyes open (more on this later)

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From here, go anywhere (else)

• Play with stuff (just have fun)
• Write stuff
• Build stuff
• Break stuff
• Hack stuff
• Sell stuff
• Teach/Talk/write about stuff

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Play with stuff

• OpenXTRA - Windows versions of
• Ethereal
• MRTG
• NMap
• Ntop
• Net-SNMP
• Windump
• Kismet (LORCON, Windows, etc.)

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Play with stuff

• OpenWRT -
• Linux on the Linksys (and other MFRs) platforms
• Debian-based, uses ipkg software management
• Asterisk on OpenWRT
• Snort
• Video The OpenWRT Project
• eBay or directly from Linksys (Cisco)

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Write Stuff

• Wi-Foo The Secrets of Wireless Hacking
• Out now
• Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking
• Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce (PaulDotCom
  Security Weekly)
• Due out 15 May 2007
• Hacks for the various Linksys WRT models,
  includes OpenWRT

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Write Stuff

• Linux drivers
• LinuxWireless.org
• Standards
• 802.11
• 802.11s/r/w
• 802.15
• ZigBee, Bluetooth updates
• 802.16
• 802.16m

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Build Stuff

• OpenBeacon
• Proprietary open source xcvr platform for misc.
  development
• Proprietary hardware
• Software is open (yours?)
• suggestions for hacks
• pointer to a similar product the NikeiPod
  breakout
• XBee

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Build Stuff

• Enter a contest
• Lantronics
• 20K
• Contestants build their entries from the
  company's WiPort modules
• Current promo Spider (KVM over IP)
• CTF _at_ DEFCON or SANS

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Break Stuff

• Play with various tools/attacks
• Church of WiFi (CoWF)
• The Shmoo Group
• Josh Wright
• Mike Kershaw
• Mark Loveless (Simple Nomad)
• Google is your friend
• Come up with your own variant

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Hack Stuff

• Get something you have to do something new
• Skype phone
• Microsoft's Virtual WiFi
• Belkin UWB
• Industrial solutions development
• OpenWRT (again)

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Group Church of WiFi

• Kismet on Windows (and OS X)
• WRT hardware hacking
• Pointers to tons of other projects
• not all good (WarGlue?)

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Sell Stuff

• Services
• Fon
• Hardware
• Ubiquity - specializes in higher power radio
  interfaces (802.11, 802.16 and 900 Mhz)
• Gray market?
• Wireless SageTV
• Picotux on the DigiConnect ME

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Teach/Talk/Write About Stuff

• Free-lance articles
• Howto's
• Blogs/Wiki's/Web pages
• Podcasts/Vidcasts
• Find your niche! Have fun with it!

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Help Wanted

• Theses (past present)
• Government - Dedicated emergency broadband
• General Dynamics
• Commercial side needs work also
• WVE - vulnerability tracking
• Get involved in industrial politics
• Comment on NIST Special Pubs/DISA STIGS

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ITN-220

• Questions?