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>So why did he rely on luck instead of SSHing to the laptop and unlocking the machine? I don't know of a single person who directly connects their laptop to th
by blhack 15y ago
>So why did he rely on luck instead of SSHing to the laptop and unlocking the machine?
I don't know of a single person who directly connects their laptop to the internet. This would have been sitting behind a NAT device which, unless port 22 was explicitly forwarded to the IP address that his laptop happened to get via DHCP, would have stopped him from SSHing in :)
- icebraining 15y agoThat's why I have a two line shell script that creates an SSH tunnel to my server if I put a file called 'reversessh' on my webserver. I mean, basically doing what Prey does, but without relying on a third-party service and having much more control over the machine.
- blhack 15y agoNow that's hack-zore :).
- aw3c2 15y agoWould you share that script?
- icebraining 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878415 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878415
- LogicX 15y agoSee also AutoSSH: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Autossh https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Autossh "Autossh is a program to start a copy of SSH and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic."