Category: Hacks

  • Phone Phreak Silver Box

    Phone Phreak Silver Box

    How many Touch-Tone digits does your landline have? 12 ? …That’s so pedestrian. If you’re a phone geek you might know about the old military AUTOVON phone system. These phones added 4 additional digits, that could be used to indicate the urgency of the call. P for priority, I for immediate, and F for flash…

  • Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool (SERT) Pin Number (All of Them)

    Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool (SERT) Pin Number (All of Them)

    The Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool (SERT) is a great concept, it puts the power of Symantec’s Endpoint Protection antivirus scanning onto a bootable CD. If you are familiar with rootkits, you can probably see where this is useful. To scan a file for viruses an antivirus scanner makes a request to the operating system for…

  • Installing Tomato USB on Asus Routers (RT-N16 etc) in Windows

    Installing Tomato USB on Asus Routers (RT-N16 etc) in Windows

    Why Tomato USB? For USB support. What is Tomato USB? It’s a USB enabled version of Tomato. It’s similar to DD-WRT. a third-party firmware for your router to give you advanced features not normally found in a consumer router (VPN, captive portal, etc). Why from Windows? There is already a good write-up on doing it…

  • De-ActiveX-ifying an ActiveX Component

    Some ActiveX components add “enhancement” to the browser by dropping in custom controls for forms or other fanciness. Those types of components require the browser, because they augment the user’s experience within the browser. Other ActiveX components are little more than a standalone executable that can get it’s command line arguments from the web page…