my hacking ideas

Extreme freestyle hacking brain storm list


---make a robot from my iphone or a robot that is controlled by my Iphone

---sms app for the servers I'm setting up... might be fun http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Build_an_SMS_Notification_App

---make a hummer robot http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-07/arduino-muscle-car?page=1

I need to think of something new to add to this so I'm not just repeating somebody else's work maybe hook it up with a motion sensor and a digital camera or camcorder so when it senses motion it takes a picture. Better yet give it an old camera phone and have it SMS or e-mail a picture of the intruder it detects with it's sensor.

---make an iphone app that can be used to do online voting and put hits on a youtube page: example everytime the ip address changes on the iphone (it does this whenever it transfers to a new cell tower) it automatically goes to the site and fills out the form/or watches the video this would beat ip filters that prevent you from voting multiple times from the same machine (they work by logging the ip address you vote from and only allowing one vote from that ip address

---make a video of breaking bathroom rules (singing kumbiah in the mens restroom)

---create a robot guardian for my house: when someone enters the house he issues warnings etc...and can be interacted with

---the prank I want to pull on Geoff (and make a video of it) so basically I get a webcam that's wireless (or not) and I get a usb missile launcher and hide it in geoffs room and watch it while I'm at work and wait till he comes in the room and thinks he's alone and then shoot the usb missile at him

---build a rocket launcher (like the one I built when I was a kid) maybe make some sort of guidance system or remote launching system maybe use a wii remote to guide it to the target or something like that

---the plumber and the princess part II

---build a image fulgurator http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/fulgurator/doku.html

---make a home made GPS unit that I can install in my car and have a home made locater that will tell me from a web browser that I can access from online everywhere. basically it's a homemade lo-jack

---automate my house with home automation and use my iphone to control everything in my house (party button)

---I wonder if you could make a bar code scanning Application for either android or the Iphone??? that would be super useful or maybe make it for android

---use a phone (Iphone) to capture a keyless entry signal and then broadcast it with my phone....wow this has huge ramifications

--home made DVR that works off the internet

--put a touchscreen on my eeepc

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/07/asus-eee-pc-900-with-touch-screen.html
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Asus-8-9-Eee-PC-900-Touch-Screen-Panel-Kit-MOD-EeePC_W0QQitemZ310067891509QQihZ021QQcategoryZ3697QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#MRLOCATE

how not to get hacked

so I seems like at least 3 of my friends recently have gotten their facebook accounts hacked by the same spammer in the space of like a day... not sure why all at once but I thought I would create a quick online guide that may help my friends avoid it in the future. A lot of these things are common sense and many of them y’all may already know so please don’t take this as any sort of insult to your intelligence it’s just me trying to help (after all I do get paid to know this sort of stuff).

1. Get a really good password for online sites. A good password is at least 8 characters long and does not include words from the dictionary. It does      include Capitol letters, numbers, lowercase letters, and if allowed symbols (like $%^&$). If your not sure if your password is secure or not check it here:   http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx             Passwords that are just a word from the dictionary are really really easy to crack. An average home desktop computer can crack a password that is just a word from the dictionary in under a second.
2. Use different passwords for everything. This way if one account gets hacked you won’t lose everything else at the same time. It’s a common practice for hackers once they have gotten a username and password that works to try it at many other common sites (gmail, yahoo, facebook, myspace, popular banks, ebay, paypal, etc) to see if it will work there too. If you use the same username and password for everything then your screwed, big time.
3. Never click on a link your unsure about, seriously think of the internet as some old creepy guy that you wouldn’t trust even if he was the last person on earth. If for any reason you’re unsure about a site, link, or download, just don’t use it.
4. If a site tells you that you need a plugin or download to use the site a big red flag should pop up in your head. That’s a number one way scammers use get you to download viruses. For example: you get a pop up window that says that you have spyware on your computer, you click the link and it prompts you to download a program that will “scan” your computer. When you click this link it performs what looks like a scan and finds what looks like viruses but what’s actually happening is that is it’s downloading viruses to your computer and inviting all of it’s friends over for dinner. The best thing to do is if you need a plugin or software to run something on a site then go to a legitimate source and download it, if the site won’t tell you the name of the program you need than leave that site. For example if a site tells you that you need flashplayer, go to the adobe website yourself and download flasherplayer. If that site still doesn’t work then it’s probably a scam
5. Legitimate sites will never send you an email asking for personal info, your bank/paypal/ebay will never send an email that asks you to “sign in” to      verify who you are after following a link in an email. If you have doubts than go to that site itself in a separate tab or window and log in that way
6. If you use a public computer for anything always clear all the personal data from the system after you are done. This can be done by clearing the cache and the history. Some public computers do this automatically, but enough of them don’t that its common practice for spammers to logon public computers and see what people have left themselves logged into (which is a lot believe it or not). The best practice is not to use public computers for anything personal…but it doesn’t always work out that way so just remember to clear your personal data.
7. NEVER visit Pornographic, or gambling sites. Seriously these sites are like the STDs of the internet and will infect your computer faster than cheap      hooker. It’s just good sense not to go to them anyways for a bunch of other really good reasons, but at the very least do it for your computers sake.
8. If you want to download a program, (or music or movies or whatever) via the internet and you decide to use a torrent or other related peer to peer sharing program be very careful. While these programs are really useful for a lot of legitimate uses a lot of people still get their computers infected this way because they don’t know what they are doing. Whenever you download a file from a peer to peer network always always virus scan it first. Some sites like thepiratebay.org have comments about the file, read these and if any of them suggest that it might be a virus don’t download it. Just remember when you are using peer to peer networks nothing is regulated or inspected so use them at your own risk.
9. Have passwords on your home computers and if somebody wants to use it create a user with restricted access that they can use. This seems a little insane and untrusting but after having to clean porn and viruses off of my computers numerous times in the past that other people downloaded onto them I stand by this rule. Other people can create all sorts of security problems for you un-intentionally. Sometimes it’s just because they don’t know what they are doing and sometimes it’s because they are doing things they shouldn’t. Either way it’s a security risk that can’t be ignored. If they download a virus that steals passwords onto your computer you still get screwed by it even though you didn’t download it. 

    10. Finally always remember if anything seems too good to be true it probably is. A healthy dose of   skepticism is the best antidote for protecting yourself from viruses and spammers on the internet.      

Amendment 1.

so after seeing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail get hacked and reading the steps he did to do it, I thought I would add this amendment.

your security questions to reset your password should not be items that are easily google searchable. Palin got her account hacked because her security questions were her birthday, her zipcode and where did you meet your spouse. These apparently were all easily available online. If you create a security question make sure it's something really obscure that only you and maybe a close family member (to be honest mine are something even a close family member can't guess) can guess. Otherwise you might end up with all your email on somebody else's blog...

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha.html