I didn't know where to stick this, so I stuck it in Computers. But here's the news.
According to The Register, demand for Sega's now-dead console Dreamcast may just rise again if hackers follow the lead of Aaron Higbee and Chris Davis. The duo demonstrated a new way of hacking into corporate networks at the Black Hat Briefings this week in Las Vegas: From the inside, with a Dreamcast.
Due to the fact that firewalls are typically good at blocking connections going into (but not out of) a network, their strategy revolves around getting physical access to the corporate network you want to hack. Believe it or not, they've actually found that the physical break-in part rather easy (posing as an employee or crawling through ceilings works well...), but they've had trouble figuring out how to exploit that access.
Enter Dreamcast. It's cheap. It's fairly powerful. It's easy to program. It has an ethernet adaptor. It's small. Add in a custom Linux-based software toolset, plug it into a spare network port, stash it somewhere where nobody will see it, and you've got a "bug" that probes the firewall for an opening. When it finds one, it'll establish a connection with your home machine, allowing complete access to the network.
Corporations of the world beware -- if you see an employee holding a Dreamcast...
http://www.gamers.com/news/1211074
Thats the last thing a big corp. wants. To be hacked by a $50(or less) machine
Hack into corporations with a DC!
I have good plans for M$
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