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Living Room / Re: PWNIE EXPRESS! This is hilarious, and real!
« on: August 15, 2011, 08:03 PM »
Hi!
I work for Pwnie Express and I just wanted to reach out into this community and address a couple things people said in this thread:
First of all, we are very small and so getting sudden exposure is certainly revealing the fact that we are a tiny startup which is a group of friends. Just gonna run through a few points in the thread above
Kevin Mitnick did buy a plug and that was a quote from him after he bought the plug. Before buying it he sent this tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/kevinmitnick/status/42370853526175744
Also, Mitnick did go to jail but he is out and we just saw him quite a bit ad Defcon 19 where we were vendors. We sold over 200 plugs and quite a few of the Pwn Phones -- a mobile pentesting platform build on the Nokia N900 platform..
The plug is indeed based on the Marvell Sheeva Plug hardware. We purchase the plugs from GlobalScale who manufactures them and then flash them with our own image (build on Ubuntu) with our own custom software. We have been working on adding other grpahics besides just those from the manufacturer to the pages.
The domain was registered by a friend who is a webdeveloper when we were quite small. At some point in the future we will tranfer the domain registration to the LLC itself and make that information public. Good point tho!
Final point regarding our list of clients: the high profile clients we listed are indeed clients but they are hardware clients, not clients who we have provided infosec services to. In the case of Cisco we saw no reason not to list them because we are partnering with them in certain ways. At Black Hat Cisco gave out some of our PwnPhones as a prize for a contest at their vendor booth. Check out: http://blog.pwnieexpress.com/post/8974758207/black-hat-interview-with-cbs
Regarding the validity of our company you can search for Pwnie Express here : http://www.sec.state.vt.us/seek/keysrch.htm
If anyone has any other specific questions (or skepticism!) please feel free to respond in this thread or reach out to use directly by emailing info {AT} pwnieexpress [dot] com
Thanks for your time!
The Pwnie Express Team
I work for Pwnie Express and I just wanted to reach out into this community and address a couple things people said in this thread:
First of all, we are very small and so getting sudden exposure is certainly revealing the fact that we are a tiny startup which is a group of friends. Just gonna run through a few points in the thread above
Kevin Mitnick did buy a plug and that was a quote from him after he bought the plug. Before buying it he sent this tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/kevinmitnick/status/42370853526175744
Also, Mitnick did go to jail but he is out and we just saw him quite a bit ad Defcon 19 where we were vendors. We sold over 200 plugs and quite a few of the Pwn Phones -- a mobile pentesting platform build on the Nokia N900 platform..
The plug is indeed based on the Marvell Sheeva Plug hardware. We purchase the plugs from GlobalScale who manufactures them and then flash them with our own image (build on Ubuntu) with our own custom software. We have been working on adding other grpahics besides just those from the manufacturer to the pages.
The domain was registered by a friend who is a webdeveloper when we were quite small. At some point in the future we will tranfer the domain registration to the LLC itself and make that information public. Good point tho!
Final point regarding our list of clients: the high profile clients we listed are indeed clients but they are hardware clients, not clients who we have provided infosec services to. In the case of Cisco we saw no reason not to list them because we are partnering with them in certain ways. At Black Hat Cisco gave out some of our PwnPhones as a prize for a contest at their vendor booth. Check out: http://blog.pwnieexpress.com/post/8974758207/black-hat-interview-with-cbs
Regarding the validity of our company you can search for Pwnie Express here : http://www.sec.state.vt.us/seek/keysrch.htm
If anyone has any other specific questions (or skepticism!) please feel free to respond in this thread or reach out to use directly by emailing info {AT} pwnieexpress [dot] com
Thanks for your time!
The Pwnie Express Team