Re: Snort on iPhone

[Hui Cao <hcao () sourcefire com>]

You need overcome several issues to snort onto iphone.

1) Get libpcap working on iphone. IOS might not allow you to inspect all packets
2) compile snort on iphone: gcc and other components
3) power consumption can be huge if you let snort running.

This is an interesting project.
Best,
Hui.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Miso Patel <miso.patel () gmail com> wrote:
> Some of my engineers are asking ... what is the best way to put Snort on the
> iPhone?  They really want to know about IPS mode so they can block specific
> network traffic to Apple, arbitrary "apps", etc.  Privacy is big concern
> here now, especially now that we know that the United States NSA is
> monitoring and recording most of what we do (hi, US NSA :P).
>
> I thought I'd ask here first before asking around about other tools to do
> this such as Suricata.
>
> The challenge, as I understand it is to get it to compile on the
> architecture.  Since the iPhone is a computer (although with a not a common
> an architecture as most PCs, servers, etc.), it should be possible.  Does
> anyone have a good tutorial?  If there isn't a Snort IPS app (I didn't see
> it in the App Store), I suppose you will have to jailbreak the phone and
> install gcc etc. to compile but there could be considerations since the
> architecture isn't a normal PC.
>
> TFAT(F)H.
>
> -Miso, CISO
>
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