Yeah the Hakme project isn’t dead, good things take time folks.  The garage is finally networked, and i’ll be getting stuff online this week.  Main priority is figuring out what to use for a firewall box.  I’m going to give a bunch of stuff a try, from pfSense to m0n0wall, and others.  Once I am confident that I can expose a server to be attacked without too much fear of someone breaking into my personal computers, things will start rolling a bit smoother.  Obviously I am not going to be able to protect against the most elite hackers out there, but hopefully they’ll have better fish to fry.

I ordered a Lenovo T61p Thinkpad today.  It’s the 14.1 inch model with a T9300 (2.5Ghz 6MB L2 Cache), an nVidia FX570M Quadro card, with the display natively running at 1400×1050.  I decided against widescreen as it is a personal preference on laptops.   Along with it, I ordered 4GB of ram to replace the 1GB stock as it was far cheaper.  I’m waiting to see if the stock card is Atheros or not, rumor has it it is.

I will be reviewing the laptop when I get it on here, not in a normal benchmark sort of way, but just what my thoughts are about it in reference to what I use it for.

The Hakme project is still being worked on.  Slow and steady wins the race.  This thing won’t be launched until it’s out of beta folks, so trust us and wait for it.

I am trying to put together a proper hacking toolkit after reading an article on hackaday encouraging people to come up with the perfect hacker workbench.

I already ordered my oscilloscope kit today, it’s a PC based one, not a full fledged scope, but I think I will be happy with it as it’s been 4 years since I used a real one and this is a cheap entry level thing to get started.

What would you buy? Here’s the article with the comments.

I’ve setup a page on the site located here and am actively looking for volunteers.  I think we’re going to setup a separate IRC room and create a mailing list, and figure out what other ways we’ll all need to communicate.

Right now I am in need of the following:

• Trustworthy people to volunteer admin time on the project once it’s up and running.
• Volunteers to provide input and configuration work to get the servers how we want them to be.  We have to figure out the most secure way to allow people to hack them, and also how to restore them back to a baseline within a reasonable amount of time.
• Legal advice concerning our intention to log some of the activity via a snort sensor.
• Hosting ideas, (CHEAP is good unless we magically stumble into some donations)
• Any other thoughts, input, etc.  I’m open to anything.

Thanks!