Source: Forbes
Dangerous hacks come in small packages. Or they will, perhaps, when an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit, hits the Android market next week. The program, which Israeli security firm Zimperium revealed at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to Android users in coming days, is designed for penetration testing–in theory, searching out and demonstrating vulnerabilities in computer systems so that they can be patched.
Android app turns smartphones into mobile hacking machines
Published: August 29, 2011
I wanted to take a moment to let you know that I have added your site to my RSS feed; I imagine that many more will as well as it is becoming clear where the real action is.
I have a question. Would anyone be willing to speculate on why these ‘apps’ are being so neatly packaged for public consumption? Any ideas on what the ethos might be behind that? We have BackTrack from the Swiss and now convenient ready-to-use android hacking-packs from the Israelis. What gives? Why the emphasis on easy to attain easy to use (compared to the CLI and Unix)open source hacking power?
I would like to think that it is good for us but I smell a rat; or rather I smell a hegelian dialectic type rat: problem (‘hackers’ everywhere), reaction (‘oh my god,protect our databases from the ‘hackers”) , solution (something that is bound to impinge on individual freedoms and freedom of information).
Thoughts?
No, seriously what’s next? MyStuxnet app?