Today I only went to one class: Law370. Normally, I really hate the thought of going to the class, but it’s always a lot of fun. That professor really knows how to teach. I always learn something new from that class. Today, we were separated into groups and each group had to research a specific law regarding cyber-crime. This whole activity spawned a new project idea.
My group was assigned the CAN-SPAM act of 2003. This act basically has all these rules regulating how spam e-mail can be sent. I’m not going into that because it’s long, it’s complicated, and it really doesn’t matter for my project idea. My project basically will be a script that will crawl social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to collect e-mail addresses. It gets more diabolical than that, though. The script will log onto someone’s MySpace account and get their e-mail. Then, the script will log onto each of that person’s “Top 8″ friends and get THEIR e-mail addresses. Now, the script can send a phishing e-mail to each of the friends on the “Top 8″ list and spoof the e-mail that it originates from to look like it is coming from the original person. I think this would be an awesome and fun proof of concept. I would never use actually use this for my own malicious purposes, although I would be interested to see how well it would actually work. I really just want to write this script just to do it. It would give me an excuse to brush up on my scripting and programming skills.
I think I’ll get started on this idea soon, seeing as it won’t cost me any money.
Another update here. I started working on the cantenna project some more. I bought the pigtail that I need, cut off one end and soldered it to the PCMCIA card. I’ve also soldered the piece of copper wire to the jack that attaches to the can. All I need now is a can to attach this thing too. The solder points on the PCB were so small, I’m not sure that the connections will be good enough. Hopefully I’ll find out tomorrow. I don’t have any class so I have the entire day off. I plan on getting a can either form the cafe at school or from the supermarket. I shall update the cantenna page as time permits.