Ebook: BeagleBone for Secret Agents

The BeagleBone Black is a small but powerful low-powered computer that can be used to protect personal secrets and enable privacy enhancing technologies. With increasing concerns over Internet surveillance, you can combine time-tested open source security software with the small form factor of the BeagleBone Black to create custom personal security applications. Starting with an introduction to development with the BeagleBone Black, we'll show you how to use the BeagleBone to create custom hardware projects involving security and privacy. Each chapter provides the history and background of each technology with a self-contained and practical project. You'll explore devices such as a fingerprint scanner and the Trusted Platform Module on the CryptoCape while learning about authentication and encryption. Filled with projects that utilize security tools used by journalists, activists, and government agents, this book shows you how to apply these tools with a BeagleBone Black.;Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Creating Your BeagleBone Black Development Environment; Introducing the BBB; Appreciating BBB''s commitment to Open Source Hardware; Unboxing the BBB and providing power; Creating an embedded development environment with Emacs; Understanding the complications of embedded development; Installing Emacs 24; Installing the prelude; Learning how to learn about Emacs; Streamlining the SSH connections; Discovering the IP address of your networked BBB.