Pierow’s Prattle

Missed a presentation from Defcon or just want to see some exploits in action?  SecurityTube may be just what you’re looking for.  It’s a collection of computer security videos ranging from presentations and theory to how-to.

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Jaroslaw Lupinski has built a device that will generate magnetic signals to spoof a magnetic stripe reader – you know, the things that open doors and allow you to pay for your groceries.  Instructables has a write-up on a similar device using an iPod but Jaroslaw’s device will allow you to change the data on the fly.  Combine this with Stripe Snoop and you’ve got quite a powerful combination…

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Okay, so it’s only got a 2.8″ screen and that hardly compares to the 10″ screens that most modern netbooks are sporting these days.

Hunter Davis has a video along with step-by-step directions for using OpenZipIt to turn the Zipit Z2A Wireless Messenger into a a netbook with Audio, Mouse, etc.

The Zipit Z2A is available from Amazon for $49.99.

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Whether you’re posting an item for sale on Craigslist or trying to avoid stalkers while dating online, sometimes you need a telephone number that you can use for a temporary time period and then throw away.  Enter inumbr.  You choose a telephone number from a list of major cities and have that number forward to another telephone number or to voicemail.  After a pre-set period of time, the number disconnects and (allegedly) is never reused.

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If you’re using Firefox’s built-in password management, you should also be using its master password feature to protect your saved passwords from prying eyes.  But what happens if you lose your master password?

Since the master password prevents anyone from accessing your saved passwords, you won’t be able to access any of your stored credentials.

That’s where the Nagareshwar Talekar’s free, open source tool FireMaster comes in.  FireMaster is a command line tool designed specifically to recover your master password from Firefox.

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