Hand Held Auditing Device

[tyggerbob at gmail.com (Bob Davies)]

Nods..
I had an iPAQ 5555 with built-in wifi and bluetooth, which worked well under
Familiar, and for MSF and the Nessus Plugins, I dropped in a 1G SD card and
simlinked in the directory.
That worked fine.
My wife now has the 5555, but I have a 5455 kicking around that I might see
about getting whatever the latest and greatest is from Handhelds.org.
Bob

On 2/7/07, H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com> wrote:
> Metasploit 3 *works* on the Zaurus, the Nokia 770, and the Nokia n800 (so
> I here), but besides being slow, the UI is just not cut it for a handheld
> device. Tab completion rocks when you have a full keyboard and it almost
> pointless when you are trying to hunt and peck with your thumbs :-) If
> someone decided to build a mini-GUI (similar to the new GTK UI being
> built now), it would go a long ways toward handheld portability. Even
> with the best UI in the world, there is only so fast you can input
> commands using a handheld. The most efficient use of a handheld is to
> launch pre-configured attacks and monitor the status via a nice UI.
> Working with a windows command shell (or even meterp) is going to be a
> real pain no matter what kind of UI you make.
>
> The limitations with the Nokia 770 platform are:
> * Slow CPU (this is much better with the n800)
> * Limited RAM (metasploit can be quite piggy sometimes)
> * Extremely slow storage (even with RS-MMC, maybe 300K/s)
> * No raw wireless TX support (no fun wifi exploits)
> * The devices auto-suspends w/o input, without on obvious way to disable
> * No "real" USB host mode (without external power + cable + storage)
>
> The Zaurus I have (5500) has similar limitations, but at least the storage
> and WiFi is less of an issue)
>
> -HD
>
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 00:22, Dave King wrote:
> > A couple of things you might want to know are that you may want to be
> > careful choosing a device if you want metasploit 3 and Nessus 3.x to
> > run on them.  With Metasploit 3 I remember hearing that it doesn't work
> > on the n770 for example (I haven't heard if it works on the n800
> > though). I believe the Silica runs on one of these.  I think it's a
> > ruby slowdown thing but I'm not sure.  I tried to get it to run on an
> > iPaq using familar and had the same problems.
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