Holidays (IT)checklist

Well, it’s that time of the year again, next week I’ll be flying to my beloved Ibiza.

Being an Internet/IT junkie, I don’t exactly “disconnect”; actually I like to read / dig / test some new topics while on holidays (and while I’m not at the beach / clubbing / sunbathing). So every year I go through a particular “checklist” in order to be sure I can connect to the Internet no matter what, here’s the list as of now:

• A dual-Atheros-based OpenWrt access point
• Serial cable in case of AP bricking ;)
• A power strip
• One directionnal antenna
• One omnidirectonnal antenna
• A 10m ethernet cable
• SDcard USB adapter
• A UNIX based laptop
• OpenVPN
• aircrack-ng (you know, for… things)
• wireshark
• tshark
• ettercap
• metasploit (for research purposes only)
• OpenSSH public key deployed on every machine I’d like to ssh to
• A fallback SSH server with password access (strong one)

Any idea that comes to mind? :)