The Linux Ninja

The DEFCON organizers made the audio, video, and slides available for DEFCON 16 via RSS feeds. There were alot of interesting talks this year including

• David Maynor & Robert Graham’s “Bringing Sexy Back: Breaking in with Style” where they discuss turning Hollywood-fiction attacks into reality
• Dan “Fyodor” Lyon’s “NMAP: Scanning the Internet” where he discusses his results of a full internet scan using NMAP
• Jay Beale’s “Owning the Users with Agent in the Middle” where he talks about his new (and  just recently released) tool TheMiddler
• and of course Dan Kaminsky’s “Black OPS 2008″ where he discusses the new DNS vulnerability that he found last year

Links:

• Audio
• Video
• Slides (not currently working for me) UPDATE: slide links all appear to be working now

In a post on the AndroidFanatic forums, admin ghostwalker announced his success in running X11 and several different GUIs (Gnome, KDE, IceWM and LXDE) on a T-Mobile G1. Basically, ghostwalker’s method uses a Debian shell with a VNC server running in the background. To access it, you simply use the Android VNC viewer from your phone. This keeps everything nice and simple so that you don’t lose your phone functionality while you are messing around in X11.

This opens up the possibilities for many new uses for Android based phones. Make sure to check the link for full instructions and some screenshots.