iPhone 2.0 Firmware was come around 2 weeks ago. It was a good news for all apple fans. Well, after the DEV team released the unlock tool for iPhone. It becomes the good news for packet fans.
Applied the pwnagetool, you can receive many applications which can never be seen in apple iTunes store. The applications includes
Tcpdump - a famous packet capture tool
ngrep - a packet payload seach tool
nmap - exellent network scanning tool
And many more
The iPhone hacker team ships the libpcap, de facto packet capture library, into iPhone also. This is really amazing which simply convert the iPhone to be a network packet processor over the wifi interface.
So you must realize a young guy with an iPhone standing beside you might be a hacker equipped by the handheld Sniffer and scanner. Hacker anywhere 
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July 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
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