Spy-Phone

Not sure who needs to know this, but here’s some fun trivia for you: You can send text messages from 4G/LTE enabled routers.. This functionally means that if you were particularly disciplined with how you dealt with texting, you could place one of those routers literally anywhere in the world, use a compatible SIM card that’s attached to your identity, and you have yourself a little covert operative that misleads your ISP into thinking you are somewhere you are not. Make sure that all of the texts you make to banks, businesses, etc are run from that router and SIM. ...

The Coolest Hacker Trick I’ve ever learned When I was just a pitiful script-kiddie, I spent hours watching Hak5 episodes. There was something so welcoming about Darren and Shannon explaining basic Linux skills. In this hak5 technolust episode, Darren does something that blew my mind. In the link in the last sentence, watch between 3:46 and 7:10 of the video. He describes a scenario where one of the client devices (in this case, a Lan Turtle) that connects to his vpn server is designated as a “vpn gateway” for all the other devices. ...

We’ve all seen that scene in Mission Impossible where a secret agent picks up a device, it relays a message, and then it utters the unforgettable line, “This message will now self destruct”. I love these scenes, and I’ve always wondered why normal civilians can’t have devices with cool spycraft features like that. Well, on Android, there totally are features like that and I wanted to explain some of them here in case you weren’t familiar. ...