Many 200 Mb/s powerline adapters nowadays are based on the INTELLON 6300 chipset. Despite what can be thought looking at them, they are all using the same hardware and firmwares. I heard many people with Netgear XAV101 or Linksys PLK 200 or PLE 200 having problems after firmware updates and many other people with other brands having much more problems because of lack of support or configuration/upgrade utilities. So let me explain a few things I learnt studying them. Many of 200 Mb/s powerline ethernet adapters follow the "HomePlug AV" standard. (85 Mb adapters use HomePlug 1.0 standard which is completely different). This standard uses ethernet broadcast packets using the HomePlug AV protocol. The interesting thing is that their firmware is made of two different parts: a .PIB file (Parameter Information Block) and a .NVM file (the code itself). In the P.I.B. there are many interesting things: The branding (mac address, device name, etc) and the tone map. I test
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ReplyDeleteReport to any police authority? Even I doubt they can do something, unless they already tail that...
ReplyDeleteHmm.. yes.. but I wonder if there's something more specific and internet based.
ReplyDeletesell info to antivirus company like Symantec :-)
ReplyDelete@Qurt: nice one. Do you have any contact?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) is the correct contact. A survey of European CERTs is available at http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/cert/background/inv for example. Your feedback would be very appreciated.
ReplyDeleteJust for fun, u could invade the private irc server and take control of its admin machine :P leave a threatning message to never try that again :)
ReplyDeleteBtw, what's the utility name so we can avoid downloading it?
It has multiple names.. Like a virus. It's not a specific one.
ReplyDeleteI found it in a fake 3d game mod utility.