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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by decauth on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:22PM (#5891246)
The use of physical drop boxes placed behind a firewall is nothing new. There is in fact a specific Linux distro for the Rasberry Pi targeted at this use case (see pwnpi.sourceforge.net). It comes packaged with a large suite of penetration testing tools. While building from scratch is a useful exercise for engineers, reinventing the wheel does not merit much attention.
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by meritt on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:28PM (#5891265)
You're right, we should discourage people who are actually building things from posting (even if it's nothing earth shattering) and instead encourage folks to post more regurgitated NSA articles and Wikipedia links about crypotography standards or secret government projects.
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by xs on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:30PM (#5891275)
While I use backtrack frequently I found the pwnipi distribution to be lacking in many things and actually ditched it to complete this project. Perhaps I'll revisit that distro again when it becomes better.
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by voltagex_ on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:27AM (#5891594)
What was it missing?
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by xs on Monday June 17, 2013 @12:54PM (#5894270)
Some of the programs that it said that were supposed to be installed were not. Very little documentation exists to get familiar with that distribution.
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by ericHosick on Monday June 17, 2013 @03:31AM (#5891900)
Reinventing the wheel teaches people how to invent and how to create. Everyone, especially young adults, should be encouraged to reinvent the wheel.
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by mikeash on Sunday June 16, 2013 @11:36PM (#5891290)
This would have been an excellent comment if you had just left off the last sentence.
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Re:Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server by alan_cx on Monday June 17, 2013 @08:25AM (#5892734)
And the first sentence. The middle bit, useful.
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