Category: Mobile Devices

Time to finally pen-test on my androids

I install custom recoveries very infrequently and I rarely remember all the commands necessary for it. The link here really helped remind me how simple it is. How to flash a custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP) on Android.

I’ve been in need of a junker device that I can use to test out sniffing and hijacking with. I now have two test devices.

  • 1 x Galaxy S4 with TWRP and CM 12. With Zanti.
  • 1 x HTC rezound with CWM and CM 10 (unofficial). Thanks recycling box at work.

The HTC rezound required that I go through a token generation process at HTCDEV.com (heed the SSL error. Non-trusted issuer). This isn’t something I’ve done before, but wasn’t that difficult. The only obnoxious part is having to give them an email address. Thanks 10minutemail.

 

Hooray for enough devices to do pen-testing. Now I can learn sweet stuff *AND* remain ethical all at the same time!

“Workplace Join discovery failed” error with exit code 0x80072EE7

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Source: “Workplace Join discovery failed” error with exit code 0x80072EE7

When I was trying to enroll an older Surface RT to my AirWatch MDM, I kept tapping the “Join” button to watch as nothing happened.

Looking through the logs for Workplace Join, I see that the device is pointing to enterpriseregistration.domain.com and not the enterpriseenrollment.domain.com that the AirWatch auto-discovery service specifies for use.

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Pile of product for wireless network

Wireless network setup: Day 1

Tablets for the Oldsters

This week I’m volunteering at my favorite non-profit Elderhaven, setting up a wireless network and teaching the elderly residents of the care home how to Skype.

We originally thought of this project several months ago when a grant opportunity was announced for Southern Arizona-based non-profts that deal with the issues of aging. The idea lay dormant for a few weeks after we didn’t make the grant cut. But the idea had merit, and I decided when trying to do the next annual Arizona Gives Day fundraiser, we should bring the project back. Instead of copying and pasting all the “please donate” text from the previous years, I suggested that Elderhaven take a different approach to donations.

The plan that was formulated included fundraising for the distinct goal of reducing the isolation many of the elderly residents feel in their old age. We wanted to use modern technology to bring a new mechanism for human connection into their lives. And so the plan was born.

We ran the Arizona Gives Day campaign not as a general fundraiser, but as a platform for money to go directly to the “Tablets for the Elderly project at Elderhaven.” Over the course of 24 hours we raised $1425 towards the project. Although this amount was only a fraction of the way to our goal, it was enough to adopt Plan B where yours truly installs the wireless network and develops the training.

 

It’s going to be a great week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Here’s what Plan B *really* looked like until I flew in this AM)

(totally taken from boardgamegeek.com)
(totally taken from boardgamegeek.com)