[decauth]

The use of physical drop boxes placed behind a firewall is nothing new. There is in fact a specific Linux distro for the Rasberry Pi targeted at this use case (see pwnpi.sourceforge.net). It comes packaged with a large suite of penetration testing tools. While building from scratch is a useful exercise for engineers, reinventing the wheel does not merit much attention.

[meritt]

You're right, we should discourage people who are actually building things from posting (even if it's nothing earth shattering) and instead encourage folks to post more regurgitated NSA articles and Wikipedia links about crypotography standards or secret government projects.

[xs]

While I use backtrack frequently I found the pwnipi distribution to be lacking in many things and actually ditched it to complete this project. Perhaps I'll revisit that distro again when it becomes better.

[voltagex_]

What was it missing?

[xs]

Some of the programs that it said that were supposed to be installed were not. Very little documentation exists to get familiar with that distribution.

[ericHosick]

Reinventing the wheel teaches people how to invent and how to create. Everyone, especially young adults, should be encouraged to reinvent the wheel.

[mikeash]

This would have been an excellent comment if you had just left off the last sentence.

[alan_cx]

And the first sentence. The middle bit, useful.