/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>16389

back in A+ class, I was always told that touching monitor capacitors is a good way to electrocute yourself.

I'm looking at you skeptically on this…

>>16123

>I also enjoy mapping out my city in an offline map program I've got saved on my devices. Any points of interest, I add them on my map.

What program(s) do you use for that?

I am currently heavily invested in (not that much, but it's the only thing I do on my rig besides gaming) developing a game. So I can't do much.

My skills are pretty non-technical, really. it's all quite graphic-y.

- 4 years of experience on Blender. Aircraft, weaponry, recently organic stuff.

- Around one year with Photoshop, but I learned rather fast with this one. Making stuff with it is practically a half hour job for the stuff I need. Which isn't much, admittedly.

- Decent usage of Audacity. Noise removal, cutting up, refining, that stuff.

- I tried heavy video editing ONCE, on Camtasia. I had to do some parody video with a song for a PE project the next day, so I had little time to do it. Took 2 hours to pile up those clips I recorded together and sync it with the music, among other shit. I consider that impressive, mainly since I hadn't touched Camtasia until that moment other than for rendering videos recorded with it. I didn't even watch a single tutorial.

- Inkscape, though I do all my 2D graphical shit on PS.

If anyone would like anything from me, be it Photoshop related. That shit, I can get done with no major hassle. GUI elements, perhaps.

It's a variety. On one hand I have my programming languages (c++, python, etc.) And also there's networking and all the fun netsec junk. And on the other hand, there's the drawing and all that junk.

not many skills myself that are very cyber, some biomechanics and kinesiology, basic medicine, debate skills, parkour, some low level martial arts, economics, basic psychology, and just took up programming and electronics

If we are ever going to work on a cool project that might be illegal, how are we meant to filter out possible LE's and COINTEL agents from the board (or wherever we decide to discuss it)? I think we have the possibly to pull off a fun collaborative project with all the people on here.

>>21371

>how are we meant to filter out possible LE's and COINTEL agents?

We aren't. Main drawback of anonymous community is predisposition towards infiltration and recuperation. Either make a strong leader who divide people in working circles, or do it IRL. Or total autonomy, where everyone does his own project anonymously (that is, through Tor/i2p) and receive help on ad hoc basis.

>>21382

Very good points. What do you reckon?? Total autonomy sounds like the way to go unless it's possible to do it in meatspace.

>>21383

Depends on your project. Total autonomy can be a waste of working force, as passing-by anons won't know what they personally can do for project at the moment. Working circle can get huge amount of work done, but it requires devoted, passionate individuals.

I'd say, the more working hours your project needs to be fully completed == more centralization, governing and funding (human, financial, time) it needs.

>>21247

It is a good way to soak up some voltage… if the capacitor is charged. Grounding removes the danger.

I hardly ever get shocked anymore.

>>16060

That's pretty cool. Maybe I'll write a short story about this shit one day.

>>17243

You should hit up >>17237

I did it too. We should all team up.

>>21247

This applies to the beefy ones in CRT's. You're not gonna get killed from replacing the dinky caps on an LCD controller board.

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Now that the thread has received a fair number of replies and we all have an idea of the anons who are available, we should start proposing projects.

>>21592

I've had an idea for a bootable plug-and-leave encrypted communications server for a while. Basically you plug into a computer that is disposable (to you, that is) and boot into it/run it in the background on whatever environment was on it in the first place. It boots up, and automatically configures servers for protocols including but not limited to SIP, IRC, IMAP/SMTP and/or Mumble. The person installing records the connection information, and shares it with their friends/partners/comrades. Clients share their personal keys beforehand so anything passing through the server is end to end encrypted. The server can be shut down remotely by any one of the clients, or by removing the USB that it's on - like Tails, it will do a reboot, leaving no trace on the machine that any activity happened (will probably only work in boot mode).

Basically emphermeal, short-term, plug-and-go encrpyted comms.

MechE student here; can write some Java and solder. I feel small.

>>21617

Don't worry. You can already do two things that I can't.

>>21655

I thought about it around 5 month ago. Since I'm a bit into security, I came up with some design ideas:

- Use SBC as a base platform. Since RaspPi is shit, I recommend Hardkernel's Odroid stuff. It's more powerful.

- Use physical qwerty mini-keyboard. I fucking hate sensor screen.

- Baseband chip is a problem in general. I propose some sort of pluggable 3G-modem that can be physically removed for security reasons and be carried separately. Same goes for Wi-Fi dongle. Is it possible to have phone calls on these modems?

- There are many good distros that can be used. Debian7, Mint, etc.

- Microphone must be unpluggable too.

Links to keep your dicks wet:

http://n-o-d-e.net/post/107977286006/how-to-create-a-handheld-linux-terminal

https://i.imgur.com/ZVdjSLh.jpg

>>21662

Yeah I was actually thinking about whether a Raspberry Pi would be powerful enough. That Odroid though looks pretty sick. Also, about the keyboard, what do we do about people who want sensor screens? I guess we'd just make it easy to unplug the keyboard or something…

I totally agree with the rest of the your points, especially about the mic. I haven't personally used it but could Replicant be a viable OS??

>>21592

Okay how about this…

take the kinds of magnets used for finger implants, and put them in the tragus of the ear to pick up EMF. This has already been proven to be safe (enough) on the Biohack.me forums, and using a large copper coil around his neck the guy who did this was able to pick up music.

My idea is to turn this into a hat, with the coil built in, or possibly even gauges. You could then pick up and amplify any EMF that gets picked up and play it directly to your ears. you could even take things a step further and pick up wifi or something similar.

bumporinio

I'm around 3/4ths done with a comp sci major.

And I like to lift and other random hobbies I suppose.

>bumping for the cyber irc on rizon to talk with anons

>>22456

Go away hollywood.

>>21779

That's fuckin slick, ace.

>>16008

I am:

-Fluent in HTML

-Fluent in CSS

-Know some JavaScript

-Am learning C# currently

Do I qualify for anything you're doing?

>>22601

Oh hobbies, I like:

-learning languages. I am learning German and plan on Russian next. Maybe Czech after.

-I really like locks. I'm obsessed with picking locks. It sprouted when I was 13 and could pick an easy lock. Then I tried a more difficult lock. Then another. I now have a few locks in my room because of this.

-Something relevant, I'm very good with photoshop. I can't draw for shit but I can alter images to suit what I want to do.

-I like learning about programming. It just looks so elegant.

>>22589

>>21779

This is definitely a more EE oriented project, and I'm wondering if anybody here with those skills could tell how inefficient something like this would be, or what kind of range the coils have. Could this package fit inside of a medium sized gauge, or would this strictly be headgear?

>>21655

>>21662

I really like the idea, but we need someone who is specific in making plugins. If we use spare parts for this, then someone needs to make plugins so that the parts interact and therefore can make stuff appear on the screen. Unless someone here is very good in making them, we're stuck already.

>>22610

well… shit. i can't but i have the feeling that someone among st all these skilled people should be able to do it. i'm glad you like the idea though. if this ends up being feasible i'd love to see what people end up making when the final pdf is released.

>>22615

I'll try picking up a few books about plugins myself since I know a fair bit of code (plugins shouldn't be that difficult. I think) and I'll see if I can get on that.

>>22618

sounds good. i wish i could learn faster so i wouldn't be so technologically retarded. let us know how feasible this idea is once you eventually have read all the books.

>>21662

I made a 3g tablet just like this out of a rasppi, pretty similar to the node really, but in tablet form. ingredients:

1.giant ass phone charging battery, like way bigger than you think you'll need.

2. Powered USB hub thats compatible with the pi.

3. tiny ass keyboard with trackpad

4. 10 inch touchscreen (this is why the big battery)

5. mini usb wifi dongle

6. mini usb 3g dongle

7. raspi w/ audio board and camera

8. minispeakers w/ mic.

9. custom made case.i used carboard at first, then a hollow book. I think I'd go with wood or a 3d print next time.

All up it cost a little over $300. I also bough a note 10 tablet, the homebrew tablet was like at least 5 times fatter, the usb range is terrible, the 3g reception is shit and the processor can't handle fuck all. I mean it was pretty good for something i whipped together out of parts, but nothing compared to a unibody form with compacted components.

I de-constructed it to use the rasppi for another project. If I ever put it back together I'll get a much better wifi dongle that I can attach to a wok and go wardriving, that is pretty much the only realistic use i can see for such a set up. I mean it can do video calls from anywhere with reception, and it can function as a thin client terminal, but even web browsing taxed the processor. The actual functionality as a hacking device is a bit weak though, neither the mini keyboard nor the touchscreen are really ideal for coding. I'd seriously consider grabbing one of those foldable keyboards next time and just using the touchscreen as a mouse.

Its not really a replacement for a phone because even if you set up call forwarding to it, the 3g reception is nowhere near as good as a real phone. Its good if you have no tablet or laptop, but its pretty crap in comparison to the real things. Still, as shit as it is, that feel of sitting on a rooftop snifffing the wifi below on a home made cobbled together junker, its pretty fucking cyber. I also liked the ability to physically unplug the 3g and wifi. the mic was unplugable, but the camera wasn't, not that it actually mattered when the 3g and wifi were unplugged. The Rasp pi was definately a weak point Odroid looks better in that you wouldn't need the audio shield and you might get away without the usb hub.

I don't think its all that groundbreaking though, you don't exactly need a design document, its just like playing with lego. Even when it works, you can get way better tablets for the same price. Hell you could even buy super cheap knock off tablets and trash them periodically.

>>21655

Phones are way more ambitious than tablets. That phone is pretty basic and despite what he says, it is unrealistic to put together for the average person. You basically need an electronic's lab full of equipment and someone who is great at soldering and electronics nearby. I mean in addition to extremely ine soldering of tiny components and testing complex circuits he does serial debugging of a GSM connection. It is absolutely not a project you could recommend to total newbs.

Data scientist here. My main skills are in machine learning and related math, programming and misc skills. Also pretty good with general programming and AI algorithms.

I want to make a functioning keychord

Majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science with a focus on machine learning, pretty competent, only a junior though, I go to a really decent school, intend to go on to postgraduate studies

Outside of coursework my time is spent almost entirely working with electronics of all kinds, mostly microcomputers and controllers, but I've studied all sorts of things including power engineering, high voltage work etc. but mostly microcomputers are my main interest and I spend more time studying that than my actual coursework, but that will probably have to change.

More knowledge of 60's-mid 90's minis and micros than anyone under the age of 50 should reasonably have as a consequence of my hobby.

>>30056

That's pretty much exactly what I'm going to do. Tell me, is the workload really high? Everyone tells me I should just pick one or the other.

>>30062

I've not taken anything where the actual content is extremely difficult, I mean you have to enjoy doing a lot of theory, which is what a lot of people struggle with, but I enjoy it so it's much easier for me to focus on it. There is a lot of work in terms of sheer volume, particularly for the higher level maths classes, but it's not completely overwhelming.

>>30065

>you have to enjoy doing a lot of theory

No worries then.

I'd like to get into ham radio, particularly stuff like packet radio and RTTY. I feel like that's a huge chunk of communication/cyber space I haven't explored

There are plenty of people working on homebrew phones and tablets. If you want to do something truly interesting, figure out how to get wireless mesh networks between continents.

>>30090

>figure out how to get wireless mesh networks between continents.

It's called DTN, Disruption Tolerant Networking (previously: Delay Tolerant Networking) and it's how NASA's space Internet works.

Current work-groups are experimenting with terrestrial implementations under the name: NDN (Named Data Networking) – Which aims to bring a decentralized approach to asset access to the entire web, thus enabling browsing via mesh networks (no more centralized servers).

>>30096

The latency isn't the issue. Its the physical connections between isolated places. Lets take Australia for example, there are currently five cables connecting the entire continent to the rest of the world. If you want to make a mesh network leave or enter Australia you're going to need to cross a huge stretch of ocean. Either you use the existing infrastructure, in which case someone is still paying for huge amounts of spied on backbone data. Or you come up with an alternate infrastructure.

If you all pitch in to lay down a new cable, you suddenly have to get approval from at least two nations, be prepared to pay for maintenance and you can still expect for the gov to demand access to your data.

Wifi's longest demonstrated sync distance is about 300km, which isn't far enough to reach between Australia and Indonesia, and even if you did , you still have a single point of failure for an entire country's data. Speaking of which, how do you even get most of Australia's data up to Darwin through the desert to make the jump across the ocean. Once you make the jump, you're in Indonesia, where the net is even worse and you've still got half a dozen poor countries to get through before reaching China.

You could go with a satellite mesh network, but who has that kind of scratch and is trustworthy? The whole point of mesh networks is that you're evading central control. The moment you start needing large scale centralised infrastructure of any kind you are pretty much no longer really a mesh network

These kinds of problems are not unique to Australia, its just the best example because its big and empty. How do you get data from America to Europe without a central connection point? I mean, lets say you get a mesh network that spreads across europe, down through the middle east, across to asia, then up to russia, the jump between russia and alaska is still a problem, and even if you do make the connection there, data from the eastern US is travelling nearly the whole way around the planet, through dozens of failed states and dictatorships to reach england, and data from south america is travelling an insanely convoluted path to reach africa. These pathways are highly vulnerable to single points of failure and control. Mesh networks work locally in highly populated areas, but scaling that out over continents is theoretical at best, and scaling it across the world becomes nigh on impossible.

>>30113

> If you all pitch in to lay down a new cable, you suddenly have to get approval from at least two nations, be prepared to pay for maintenance and you can still expect for the gov to demand access to your data.

If you're using NDN then just use the existing cable. One copy of the information populates across the under sea link or off the satellite. Then the whole rest of the continent has access to that data, more requests for it come from the nearest cache, which could be your neighbor. You spy on the cable and you don't know who the data is for or from.

At some point you have to accept that governments exist and there's no way to prevent them from seeing that two nodes were connected (except by quantum teleportation, but that's a long way off).

Currently when you request a resource already tries to come in from the cache, but the caches are located at the ISPs in a centralized fashion. With Mesh Net + NDN your neighbor doesn't have to communicate via the ISP to send you the data, and when it requests the data from a more distant neighbor – even across an undersea or sat link – there's no way to tell who it is meant for (unless you have taps everywhere, since there's no more centralized location to tap).

In other words, does it matter if an blob of random noise is transmitted from your machine through several neighbors, across a point to point microwave link between neighborhoods, and undersea cables or sat links if it doesn't matter

Protip: The Internet IS a decentralized mesh network, it's just a wired one. It's the "web" of centralized data silos that's the problem. If the data is in a silo then you can spy on the pipe to see who's accessing it. If the data is distributed across the whole network then you can't see who's accessing it, or even where it came from.

Now, if you're talking real-time uplinks then the speed of light is your enemy. There's no known way to circumvent the speed of light limit for transmissions or the inverse square falloff of radio transmissions. If you live far away from the data you want then there will be a delay. In NDN the data is fingerprinted so it doesn't matter if failed states handle your data, they can't tamper it. If they try to block it, it'll find another way around (Just like how data can be relayed via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter if Curiosity isn't in line of sight – The data goes out to all who can hear and anyone can answer the request).

In a network where the data is diffuse and storage topology is decoupled from that of the link layer the nature of the underlying links can still be physical while allowing anonymity.

The point of DTN is that there is no single point of failure.

NDN vastly increases the burden required to spy on targets. You have to get right next to them rather than just tap a trunk line. What does it matter if the data you requested originated on the other side of the planet and propagated around the world twice, if it's being served to you by your neighbor immediately because they requested the same data yesterday. It's the connections to your neighbors which are far more valuable in any sort of scenario where you're fearing rouge states or megacorps. What good is someone in Anchorage Alaska to a friend in Perth Australia if the jack boots are in the hood?

We already have cubesats being built by college students and launched by private corporations. As the price of space comes down the ability to bounce a signal off a cubesat between two ground based people with old rotary sat dishes greatly increases. It's already possible to relay signal across the world using existing tech. You're only prioritizing physical links because the current data distribution model is tied to them. Otherwise, you've got to realize that limitations physical distance can not be easily dealt with until teleportation tech is here. Prioritize direct connections accordingly.

In other words: What problem are you trying to solve that hasn't already been solved?

>>30126

> If you're using NDN then just use the existing cable. One copy of the information populates across the under sea link or off the satellite. Then the whole rest of the continent has access to that data

Who is paying for this entire continent's data?

>>30169

>Who is paying for this entire continent's data?

No one is. There's a peering agreement between the over seas telcos and neither one pays the other.

levelup newfriend.

Cyber Skills:

- Basic knowledge kinesiology

- HTML ('hello world')

- learning java

- Basic soldering

Into:

- Diesel engine powered w/ veggie oil

- Video game controlled with motion

- Economics

- Making normie shit into shit that is schway as fuck

Can do

>C, would consider myself proficient

>Python (a bit rusty)

>Network programming, rewrote arpspoof in Python so that it worked on an entire subnet at once

>Linux (server) administration

>Encryption (practical, not math side of it)

Do want

>buddies to urbex, hack, dumpster dive, chill with

>drugs

I am self taught in everything I know pertaining to computers. I started programming when I was 12, long story short, taught myself C++ then moved to C. I run a programmer's club at my HS, looking for more like minded chummers to hang with.

Tox ID is D95FA8BA83FAF9931DC02E982F92447CECA560FCD959B99C8126638FE7F9AA2178E4F7F39FC0

I am an audio engineer, musician and producer. I sing and do some voice acting as well.

I have a huge interest in using my "art" to create something negative or some kind of propaganda just to see what happens.

>>39237

me again:

are there any producers here that dont suck we could create some music.

Are there any game devs? We could create an interactive experience with a purpose.

Are there any hackers? We could put interesting images and sounds on small unprotected websites.Netgraffiti.

>>21244

whats your soundcloud

>>16008

Skillz:

Embedded Systems

ARM, z80, x86_64,8080,MC68000 Assembly

C,C++

D

Python, Perl

Bash

Windows Powershell

VBS

Sql, PHP, Html, JS

Worked as an electrical engineer designing smart devices up until last year.

Have a degree is EE,CE,CS, and OC (organic chemistry). But the OC and CS I got online on my free time.

Dumpster Diving (company I worked for for 5 years went under, so no job currently)

Also have a high tolerance to drugs.

that is what working in the IT industry since you were 14 does (14 in 1997).

Oh yeah

I actually know GIT

>>16426

Okay I am wanting to build this too.

for the signatures, we could just make a glove with wires in it, if not we might want to use magnetic tape from cassettes, as we can pick up different info from them with a head.

I think if we take some pieces of of the tape then make it so that the stronger the magnetic field is the 'higher' the characters are.

Some C on a AT Mega 328 (or similar small IC chip) and we can write a simple program that just converts the data. A small chip like the mega, a small switch, small smd led, and a very small coin battery and we could fit the whole thing in the grey elastic band. (Think that thing all middle aged women have now).

Also, we could either have the connector be a head phone jack since they can accept input or just a micro SD plug.

Skills:

-The family disappointment.

-Neet with no tech abilities.

-Can cringe at sunlight with a single glance.