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J-Mac:
I read his book, "The Art of Deception" and yes, he does have quite a few tall tales in it!

Jim

40hz:
I read his book, "The Art of Deception" and yes, he does have quite a few tall tales in it!

Jim
-J-Mac (July 10, 2011, 11:51 AM)
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+1! There's a whole lotta BS being slung around.

That's the problem when you deal with hackers and cybersecurity stories. Everybody - and I mean everybody - from the hackers, to the "white hats" - to the agents of the law enforcement community itself - all exaggerate wildly about the events and exploits they were involved with - along with the significance of what actually went down.

About the only thing you can count on is they all want to magnify their individual roles (and importance) in the eyes of their peers, their superiors, and the general public.

 :-\

pwnieexpress:
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

Renegade:
@pwnieexpress - Thanks for dropping in and clearing up some of that. It's always good to have vendors give their $0.02.

Cheers!

r0bert0:
another one

http://www.demyo.com/products/demyo-power-strip/

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