RE: PDA recommendation for running Mini-stumbler (maybe OT?)

From: James, Jay (jjames@idanalytics.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 14:02:00 EST


I bought a Nokia device especially for this purpose.
It wasn't stable and crashed frequently -- I figured it was because my son dropped it from 3 feet or so.
Fine, I give Nokia the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps a loose surface mount component... ok. Whatever, I get it.
Crash Crash Crash.

So I then bought another one.
It wasn't stable enough either and crashed almost as frequently (I was obsessed about keeping Juniors hands off of it this time around).
Having 2 unstable Nokia devices are enough for me to perhaps inspire the pentester to think again about using even one.
If someone has better luck with this, then good for you! I am jealous, as I have spent untold hours on mine trying to get things to a point of stability.
As it is now, these are relegated to sitting on a shelf in the home lab.
The shelf is labeled "The Junk Shelf".

Spend and learn.

Jay James
INFOSEC
ID Analytics, Inc.
Office:  +858-312-6237
www.idanalytics.com

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On Behalf Of Slim Pickens
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:23 PM
To: Paul Greene
Cc: Pentest Mailinglist
Subject: Re: PDA recommendation for running Mini-stumbler (maybe OT?)

Try a Nokia N810 and run kismet, aircrack, dsniff, and metasploit
instead.

On Feb 4, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Paul Greene <techlists@comcast.net> wrote:

> I hope this isn't too off topic for the list.
>
> I want to buy a PDA that can also be used as a phone, has builtin
> 802.11 b/g wifi, and, importantly, has no problems running mini-
> stumbler. If the device also had a built in 1 or 2 megapixel camera,
> even better.
>
> The HP iPAQ 510 looks like it has the specs, but I can't find anyone
> anywhere using this particular model with mini-stumbler. Almost all
> of the Google searches I ran on mini-stumbler and iPAQs came up with
> older posts, i.e. 2-5 years ago. (the operating system on the iPAQ
> 510 is Windows Mobile 6.0)
>
> I'm not set on an iPAQ, but am more interested in getting a current
> PDA model that someone is already running (with the above specs) and
> is enthusiastically happy with what they've got.
>
> TIA,
>
> Paul
>
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