Exploitation -- The way I like it.

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Gibberbot
Possible Project / Contribution Candidate
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Notes
+  Uses XTPP protocol for messaging 
+  Follow Gibberbot GitHub instructions
+  Helpful guide to fork-a-repo

FollowUp: Steffi continued on this project. Mostly code clean up. Project - Interest mismatch.


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Android
Area of Interest / Possible Project

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Notes
+  Mission = root an Android device using any available means.
+  Sub-Mission: Define 'available means.'
+  Downloaded Android Source (here)
          o  Takes at least an hour to grab everything. 

Operating Systems Lab 1:

"One interesting case I found in my research was a program that set its current directory to /etc/cron.d (where scheduled tasked are stored). The hacker requested a core dump happen in the case of an emergency crash of his process, then recruited another process to kill it. The dump occurred, and chron treated it as a text file. When it was next run, because chron had root privileges and was running the process, the process also had root privileges."

... Inspiration? ....




Understand a Pre-Existing Exploit
Eric and I traced this code, which successfully rooted Android v2.2
ARM Stack looks like this