Peace be upon you
How are you guys? I hope that you are all OK, today I want to talk about something extremely cool, there is nothing better than open source platform, so let us begin,
Halo Moto, I was always saying that it is cool :D.
Actually Motorola did something that is very cool, it releases some of its mobile operating system source code, here is list of the Mobile Platforms that is released by Motorola
https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/sfmain/do/listProjects
Now, I am working on the Rokr E6, actually I respect this device very much, it has a very huge capability, such thing is very useful to develop your own, Security module if you are worry about the hackability of GSM and such thing, in same time, there is hell of ideas that is used in hacking, such device is optimum tool for hackers, imagine, if the device has some capabilities with its WiFi, then it's OK for this device to hack WiFi :D, if the device has Monitor mood (on it's WiFi chip) that get things from the air, then it is really done, simple tools that do analysis against the captured data and the guy will get "Access Granted" on any WiFi network, also as much as hardware good, this thing could be a very good tool in GOOD or EVIL, so it is all about ethics ;), anyways I just wanted to take your attention to this nice link, I have this link long time ago, actually I have downloaded some from it :D, but I didn't use it, I will try to have piece of Rockr :D, By the way most of Motorola stuff is based on Linux, I forgot to mention that :)
Thanks for your time.
BR
Ahmed Essam
Monday, February 25, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Hack Windows Mobile ROM
Peace be upon you
How are you? This post will be short but it will be valuable, for people who do windows mobile development, I found something that may look good for most of them.
While I was missing up with the Platform builder files, some files catch my eyes, files like
romldr.h
This file seem to be related to ROM issues, as you know there is memory types in Windows mobile, Extended ROM, and after that there is file has attribute "FILE_ATTRIBUTE_INROM", until now I don't if this header file will help to extract files from ROM or not, but I am sure the this file will need DeviceIoControl, because all this file have is constants like this
IOCTL_BIN_GET_E32
IOCTL_BIN_GET_O32
IOCTL_BIN_GET_XIP_PAGES
IOCTL_BIN_SET_E32
IOCTL_BIN_SET_O32
IOCTL_BIN_GET_ROMHDR
The problem now is how to find the appropriate structs that help in dealing with it with no problems, you know if you tried missing up with this stuff you may lose a device, I don't know how bad the damage will catch your device if you miss use them, Thanks to GOD we have emulator :D, but it still not safe to miss up with such functions on real device.
one more thing that is really cool, Windows mobile have partitions concept to spread data between ROM and extended ROM and memory, what I mean that there is partition where the extended ROM placed, how do I know that, just check this link, it is for reference called "Bootpart Reference "
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa911532.aspx
I hope that this post was informative.
BR
Ahmed Essam
P.S: I think the only one who may find it useful is someone trying to hack Windows Mobile ROM.
How are you? This post will be short but it will be valuable, for people who do windows mobile development, I found something that may look good for most of them.
While I was missing up with the Platform builder files, some files catch my eyes, files like
romldr.h
This file seem to be related to ROM issues, as you know there is memory types in Windows mobile, Extended ROM, and after that there is file has attribute "FILE_ATTRIBUTE_INROM", until now I don't if this header file will help to extract files from ROM or not, but I am sure the this file will need DeviceIoControl, because all this file have is constants like this
IOCTL_BIN_GET_E32
IOCTL_BIN_GET_O32
IOCTL_BIN_GET_XIP_PAGES
IOCTL_BIN_SET_E32
IOCTL_BIN_SET_O32
IOCTL_BIN_GET_ROMHDR
The problem now is how to find the appropriate structs that help in dealing with it with no problems, you know if you tried missing up with this stuff you may lose a device, I don't know how bad the damage will catch your device if you miss use them, Thanks to GOD we have emulator :D, but it still not safe to miss up with such functions on real device.
one more thing that is really cool, Windows mobile have partitions concept to spread data between ROM and extended ROM and memory, what I mean that there is partition where the extended ROM placed, how do I know that, just check this link, it is for reference called "Bootpart Reference "
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa911532.aspx
I hope that this post was informative.
BR
Ahmed Essam
P.S: I think the only one who may find it useful is someone trying to hack Windows Mobile ROM.
The First MDC ever, MDC 2003
Peace be upon you,
How are you guys? I hope that there is everything is going OK with all of you, today I am going to talk about something little bit historical, also this thing is some kind of my happiness days every year, the days I am talking about is MDC days, MDC stands for "Mideast Developer Conference", this conference held ever year in Egypt, This conference is very important to me, Why? because it is the only 4 whole days we talk about technical issues, no TASKS, no RULES, no THINGS that I hate, just cool people who is talking about new technologies, also there is plenty of sessions so I attend what I really like to attend, the time line of MDC, first see the MDC first logo and note sheet:
That was the logo for MDC 2003
this is the notepad that was given by Microsoft
I attend all the MDC's, but of course I don't carry this thing for all that time, here is the time line for the MDC
MDC 2003 -> First MDC I was in 3rd grade at institute, it was AMAZING, Mohamed ALaa was a start in this MDC, all people likes him, he give some sessions he talked about Smart devices, he shows us some tools, at this days there was only VS.NET 2002, with .NET framework 1.0, he also show us some add-ins and tools for VS.NET, I was totally alone, I know no one there, the only thing that I have got there is Mohamed Alaa Card, I called him and I ask him for help, he was very nice, he ask me to have a visit to Microsoft Egypt, he gave a beta copy of VS.NET DVD, I really like this guy, I hope that I have chance to meet him :), I think he is the golden guy at Microsoft Egypt.
MDC 2004 -> Bill gates was going to say a keynote for Egyptian developers, unfortunately I couldn't attend the first day, of course I missed his keynote, but I attend the other days, it was very good, I was sick (FLU), I don't remember anything.
MDC 2005 -> for the second year on consecutively Bill Gates come and have the keynote to Egyptian Developers, this time I attend (haa :D), I was one the front lines, I met the Arab team guys, it was the best year Ever, I got about 30 friend there, there is Remarkable friends there I can't forget, they are always on my mind and my heart, they are my brothers, here is listing of them
Ahmed Ezz
Belal Younes
Mohamed Abd Aliem
Mohamed Hossam
Mohamed Milligy
Mohamed Tanna
Tarek Ibrahim
There is many guys, I met there but I don't remember all of them, but this guys are remarkable and unforgettable, They are truly my brothers, It was the best MDC for me
MDC 2006-> this year was so reach, the give us VS.NET 2005, at this time I was admired with ASP.NET 2.0, so I wrote my book that was talking about ASP.NET 2.0 for my Arabian development brothers :D, I also got a very cool friend there, he is Patrick Hynds, he is a very good guy, who cares about security, just like me :D, I took his card and I contact him.
MDC 2007-> really it was so repeated, we hardly got new information from it.
Common things that is happen in MDC, is Raffle, every year they do raffle and they give very good gifts, Mohamed Milligy wins twice :D, also we used to get Downtown and have some fun with Arab Team guys
At the end we are now waiting for the beloved MDC, there is no clear date for it, but there is Expectation that it will be with ICT 2008
Thanks for your time
BR
Ahmed Essam
How are you guys? I hope that there is everything is going OK with all of you, today I am going to talk about something little bit historical, also this thing is some kind of my happiness days every year, the days I am talking about is MDC days, MDC stands for "Mideast Developer Conference", this conference held ever year in Egypt, This conference is very important to me, Why? because it is the only 4 whole days we talk about technical issues, no TASKS, no RULES, no THINGS that I hate, just cool people who is talking about new technologies, also there is plenty of sessions so I attend what I really like to attend, the time line of MDC, first see the MDC first logo and note sheet:
That was the logo for MDC 2003
this is the notepad that was given by Microsoft
I attend all the MDC's, but of course I don't carry this thing for all that time, here is the time line for the MDC
MDC 2003 -> First MDC I was in 3rd grade at institute, it was AMAZING, Mohamed ALaa was a start in this MDC, all people likes him, he give some sessions he talked about Smart devices, he shows us some tools, at this days there was only VS.NET 2002, with .NET framework 1.0, he also show us some add-ins and tools for VS.NET, I was totally alone, I know no one there, the only thing that I have got there is Mohamed Alaa Card, I called him and I ask him for help, he was very nice, he ask me to have a visit to Microsoft Egypt, he gave a beta copy of VS.NET DVD, I really like this guy, I hope that I have chance to meet him :), I think he is the golden guy at Microsoft Egypt.
MDC 2004 -> Bill gates was going to say a keynote for Egyptian developers, unfortunately I couldn't attend the first day, of course I missed his keynote, but I attend the other days, it was very good, I was sick (FLU), I don't remember anything.
MDC 2005 -> for the second year on consecutively Bill Gates come and have the keynote to Egyptian Developers, this time I attend (haa :D), I was one the front lines, I met the Arab team guys, it was the best year Ever, I got about 30 friend there, there is Remarkable friends there I can't forget, they are always on my mind and my heart, they are my brothers, here is listing of them
Ahmed Ezz
Belal Younes
Mohamed Abd Aliem
Mohamed Hossam
Mohamed Milligy
Mohamed Tanna
Tarek Ibrahim
There is many guys, I met there but I don't remember all of them, but this guys are remarkable and unforgettable, They are truly my brothers, It was the best MDC for me
MDC 2006-> this year was so reach, the give us VS.NET 2005, at this time I was admired with ASP.NET 2.0, so I wrote my book that was talking about ASP.NET 2.0 for my Arabian development brothers :D, I also got a very cool friend there, he is Patrick Hynds, he is a very good guy, who cares about security, just like me :D, I took his card and I contact him.
MDC 2007-> really it was so repeated, we hardly got new information from it.
Common things that is happen in MDC, is Raffle, every year they do raffle and they give very good gifts, Mohamed Milligy wins twice :D, also we used to get Downtown and have some fun with Arab Team guys
At the end we are now waiting for the beloved MDC, there is no clear date for it, but there is Expectation that it will be with ICT 2008
Thanks for your time
BR
Ahmed Essam
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