[Freedombox-discuss] Anti- freedom-box

[Boruch Baum]

Many of you may have seen this on slash-dot, it's a power strip with a
concealed illicit motherboard, that includes:

    Onboard high-gain 802.11b/g/n wireless.
    Onboard high-gain Bluetooth (up to 1000').
    Onboard dual-Ethernet.
    Fully functional 120/240v AC outlets!.
    Includes 16GB internal disk storage.
    Includes external 3G/GSM adapter.
    Includes all release 1.1 features.
    Fully-automated NAC/802.1x/RADIUS bypass.
    Out-of-band SSH access over 3G/GSM cell networks!.
    Text-to-Bash: text in bash commands via SMS! .
    Simple web-based administration with "Plug UI".
    One-click Evil AP, stealth mode, & passive recon.
    Maintains persistent, covert, encrypted SSH access to your target
network [Details].
    Tunnels through application-aware firewalls & IPS.
    Supports HTTP proxies, SSH-VPN, & OpenVPN.
    Sends email/SMS alerts when SSH tunnels are activated.
    Preloaded with Debian 6, Metasploit, SET, Fast-Track, w3af, Kismet,
Aircrack, SSLstrip, nmap, Hydra, dsniff, Scapy, Ettercap,
Bluetooth/VoIP/IPv6 tools, & more.
    Unpingable and no listening ports in stealth mode.

Many of you may have also funded it; its development was paid for by US
taxpayers via DARPA.


http://www.zdnet.com/power-pwn-this-darpa-funded-power-strip-will-hack-your-network-7000001331/

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/22/0335223/the-darpa-funded-power-strip-that-will-hack-your-network?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29