Splents

I’ve been developing my remote security cameras for a few months now, although progress has been quite fast in the last week.
I’m getting the prototype PCB’s made up, hopefully these will allow me to put my first camera into production.

The main goals of these cameras is long duration event triggered surveillance.
Current systems that are supposed to achieve this are aimed at the hunting market, where visual size and start-up time are not an issue.
In remote human surveillance, the demographics of the target make development of these devices difficult.
In catching poachers, vandals and trespassers – capturing photos and video that allow for facial recognition is the main goal.

The security system runs on 12v power, which means any solar panel, car battery, and other power generating paraphernalia can help sustain the unit for months.
The sensors are completely removable and customisable. The sensor design is open, so that anyone can add-on pressure sensors, infra-red sensors, noise sensors etc.

Will have some photos of development soon.

Backtrack 4 supports the use of the ZTE MF626 out of the box.
While there are plenty of tutorials on how to connect the device, it took me a while to figure out why I could not see the device /dev/ttyUSB0.

When you plug the internet stick into a Windows based operating system, a virtual cd-rom is created. Once the software is installed, inserting the device runs the autorun.exe.
Obviously linux can’t use the system libraries in order to perform the same action, so what you will need to do is eject the cd-rom in linux.
The easiest way in backtrack 4 is to pop open the Konqurer->Storage Devices, hit refresh and you’ll see the cd-rom. Right click and eject.
Now, if you head to your console and type lsusb you will note that you have the correct drivers loaded, and /dev/ttyUSB0 will be available for your choosen modem dialer to use!

Sorry folks – The demand for the backtrack images (especially the old ones… *looks suspicious*) was far too high for my server, and was ruining the availability of my other websites (that actually earn me money).

So for the meantime, I’ve removed the backtrack images. I’ll be keeping the S-T-D and BCCD images up.

Last night I managed to get a strong signal from Optus C1 with my mish-mash of satellite receiving equipment. It was my intention to work on producing a smart card as part of my academic interest in satellite technology. After reading up on the “Irdeto 2″ cipher, and the function of ecm’s, emm’s and cas values, there wasn’t going to be an easy way. I need some more equipment. For the meantime, I’m going to stay on to Ku band and see what else I can pick up. I would be particularly interested in moving amateur UHF, but I’m yet to come across any satellites that claim to be for that purpose.

I’m currently hosting S-T-D and Backtrack distributions in the mirrors folder. These can be used with my rainbow tables, or for a whole range of fun activity’s.

A few years ago I created some rainbow tables for cracking a particular type of password. I’ve been hosting them for a fair while but now I’ve updated the site I thought I would point towards their location.
You can download the lm_alpha-numeric-symbol14-space1-7_0_4000x46000000 tables by clicking on the Rainbow Tables link. The tables can be used with Backtrack or S-T-D.