HoH Projects

[pdp]

You guys have any ideas of projects which we can initiate under the HoH umbrella? I certainly have. Let's share.

[System_Admin]

I believe that a good project that we could all work on would be developing a training tool kit for a newbie or anyone that wants to test there skills.
I believe such an application could be built in Flash or Java
and allow users to input information.
I am a Systems admin i could contribute some however would really need some good help from a solid programmer regarding this issue.
I believe for example :
Training for some of the below.
1) for Unix
2) Windows
3) Web Apps

Now nothing to break just basic security techniques that i believe would help everyone become a better IT professional.

Let me know what you think ?

With the HOH logo on it i believe it would be a great learning experience and give HOH some educational accredation at the same time.

[SolarTouch]

is love your idea System_Admin
i think a lot of people would like that.

[Isethoriginal]

This idea is very good. But why not making small training tutorials about everything? If someone is a java programmer he/she could make a training tool kit about programming languages like java: one for beginners explaining what it is and how to use it, one medium explaining good tecniques to keep code nice and clean and a third one to discuss several ideas about how to solve tricky features. The third one can then be a start point for the other programmers to post their problems and solutions.
We could also post training tool kits about how make those training tool kits (I personally have no clue about Flash).
Perhaps we could make a kind of contest asking to post training tool kits for a certain topic and the ten highest voted get a HoH t-shirt.

[tthtlc]

sure you can...but don't forget google or youtube or sourceforge or codeproject as well.

for example, typing "tutorial java youtube", you can find lots of online java tutorial LIVE and animated at youtube. of course, you can always add one more of yours to these sites, but it will be good to differentiate yourself from others, avoiding duplication.

similarly for sourceforge or codeproject.....i can easily find many examples....and i built my own small samples from these.

[mindcorrosive]

This is my post in HoH Incubator more or less on the topic.

To summarize - IMHO a community book/wiki on the various aspects of hackerism (hardware, software, security, social engineering, cryptology, etc.) - at least, building the community and enhancing the communication between the members. The project might have a (more or less) formal management to set the goals and guide the progress, and the contributions to be open to pretty much everyone. Entries could pass both a project management approval and/or a community approval.

The sheer diversity of the hacker culture works against writing a book on a specific topic - this will narrow down significantly the number of people involved, and would increase the probability of abandoning the project. Accumulating the knowledge in a single place - a "Hacker encyclopedia", could promote the information exchange between the hackers - something, I believe, this network aims at. After working together for at least some time, the contributors will naturally combine in interest and discussion groups, and might decide later to launch a separate unrelated project on their own.

In addition, learning materials (security certification first come to mind) could also be included, so that we won't have to see any more "Help me build a trojan, mighty 1337 haxxorz". At least, we will be able to tell them to RTFM.

[Sam Aldis]

I think mindcorrosive has a good idea,
I would be willing to put excerpts from my
book into this community based book.
wouldn't mind writing a few chapters my self
if anyone wants me too.

although i think setting up a wiki (like wikipedia)
that is just for hacking knowledge would probably
be the best idea. (I know owasp has tried this already
but i think we could create a much bigger wiki than they have
and not just for attack classifications but to share knowledge too)

[Matrix]

hi every one, i think there are many people here have a lot lof ideas, so!
evry one tell us about it, let's do this show guys ;)
any way :)) it was an idea :p.

[pdp]

ok, so we need a wiki I guess. I was wondering whether anyone is interested in taking part of any of these projects: http://www.gnucitizen.net/

[pdp]

Why don't we use the "notes" for the book?

[Charlotte]

All we need is a well-structured wiki with different sections (say Social Engineering, Hardware Hacking, OS Hacking, Web Application hacking etc.) where everyone will be free to pour in their knowledge and share reading material.

In essence, we need to build a strong knowledge base around which the community can evolve.

Another alternative are wiki pages in form of Frequently Asked Questions where questions can be submitted freely by anyone and then answered by those interested in the topic. For instance, questions can be debated on in the forums and then the answer posted on the wiki.

These two different ways of amassing knowledge are very general; we can mind of the details later on, so long as the whole community is willing to contribute and agrees on the form its ideas will take (because it is evident to me that form is as important as content).


On a side note, I personnally would dismiss the possibility of creating an entire OS especially for the HoH, at least for the moment, as we haven't an precise esptimate of the ressources we dispose of for that purpose, but also because firstly the web is more convenient for people that are accustomed to their own PCs and do not want to be compulsed to reboot and be stuck on a LiveCD that is unfamiliar to them and secondly because the web can be updated in a matter of seconds without anyone having to download and install any updates whatsoever.

[Moth]

i don't know guys...the wiki idea is really very good but it needs something more...something that it would make it interesting for all kinds of users and it would make it worth seeing/ serfing it . What i mean is that it can't be just words, few photos and all the cool enviroment of wiki. Some people don't have a clue about internet technologies and they have to understand what someone is talking about. So we have to make it somehow interactive, amateur friendly and interesting. That's just an add up to your ideas.

[pdp]

I agree... any suggestions?