Re: Smart-phone for pentester

[The Doctor <drwho () virtadpt net>]

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On 10/22/2010 12:52 AM, Ivan . wrote:
> Anyone remember the Sharp Zaurus?

I still have one, I think a 5500, but have not used it in a half-decade
or so.  One of Sharp's firmware updates completely changed the internal
file formats (from CSV to binary-only) and thus I could no longer sync
it on my Linux or BSD machines; rather than re-type everything I gave up
on it and started shopping for a smartphone.

> I had that badboy running, nmap, kismet, hping, dsniff and a few other

It was ideal for running Kismet at the time; it was also nice to have a
CompactFlash wireless interface for that PDA.

> goodies with no issues on processing power or alike. So I don't see why
> these new smartphones would have any issues with 1GHz processors and 512MB
> RAM ..

Running the CPUs on smart phones constantly (in particular, the Android
phones mentioned in this thread) drains the batteries fast.  My HTC
Hero's went flat after an hour of war-walking with Wifi Analyzer; a
friend who had an iPod Touch running WiFiFoFum on the same war-walking
jaunt reported that his power cells lasted only a bit longer.

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