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

From: Security Basic (security.basic@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 00:57:22 EST


Ministumber works very fine with Dell Axim.
HP Ipaq (6950) is bad for any such activity. Although the processor
power is very nice, but of no use.

I'll try ipaqlinux soon

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On Feb 11, 2008 9:26 AM, David M. Zendzian <dmz@dmzs.com> wrote:
> The problem with the nokia is that they only put 64M of RAM into it. Who
> in this day & age thought of that with ram prices so cheap.
>
> But with that in mind, and using the hacked OS2007 image i'm fairly
> stable :) at least enough to run some "decent" apps (600 page ebook,
> kismit, a few xterms, ssh, etc; never all at the same time...).  Just
> don't load a lot of applets and extra apps, it is a small tablet.
>
> http://maemo.org/community/wiki/Os2007On770
>
> That's the link to the OS2007 for the 770. I still have some issues with
> stability but i know it's 100% due to running out of ram & hitting swap.
> It does run way too many daemons, but it is linux and you can tweek it
> some :)
>
> David
>
> If you need more power, there is always the OQO of the sony. But they
> are slightly bigger than the average PDA.
>
>
> James, Jay wrote:
> > 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
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> > 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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