Oh noes, can't has document drops!!

It's not much for me to post, but I can't stop laughing!

dakrone++

http://writequit.org/blog/?p=158

Kthxbye,
JJC

pauldotcommunity.blogspot.com

I will be contributing to the pauldotcommunity blog site moving forward. You will find posts in both this blog and global-security. Hopefully we will be able to publish some useful information in at least one of these locations :-P




Cheers,
JJC

FreeBSD USB Booting Issues (BTX)

Since we have been building LiveUSB tools that were based on FreeBSD there has historically been an issue with several makes of laptop/hardware on boot. This problem has manifested in many ways but always yields the same result; a non-working LiveUSB tool for the system owner. This problem had to do with the BTX Loader not playing well with the specific hardware in question and not loading/running properly via USB.

The good news is that recently a patch was released that should rectify this issue! I will be applying this patch to all FreeBSD based LiveUSB releases going forward. Thanks for all of the community feedback and support on all of this.

For those that may be curious, here is the patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch. Moving forward (post 7.0R) all releases will be patched from the freebsd folks direclty.

Cheers,
JJC

HeX 1.0.3 LiveUSB Final (Bug Fixes)

I just finished the bugfix version of the HeX 1.0.3 Live (CNY Release) image.

You can get it (in torrent form) from the Security Torrent Depot at http://www.redsphereglobal.com:88/torrent.html?info_hash=77f31dbc8d641500530760e62f17d1a08e433b96 or you can get it from the below direct download site.

USA Site
MD5 (HeX-i386-1.0.3-final-usb.img.gz) = 5fb1498b3437fada0b38602324d8f5e0

Usage instructions are simple:

dd if=/path/to/HeX-i386-1.0.3-final-usb.img of=/path/to/usbstick/device bs=1M

Look for the new HeX 2.0 to be out soon, all based on FreeBSD 7.0R!

Note that some usb sticks will be smaller than others (even if it's "2G") and that even if you write it and dd produces an error saying that not enough space is available... this is OK and your HeX LiveUSB will still work fine.

Cheers,
JJC