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Tapping the Alpha Geek Noosphere with EtherPeg

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amuse-themselves-to-death dept.

tadghin writes "Rob Flickenger has an amazing take on what's happening in the wireless noosphere at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. Rob used EtherPeg, a great Mac OS X hack that lets you see the GIFs and JPEGs flying around on the local network, to key off on an amazing visual commentary on what people were doing during Steven Johnson's keynote."

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  1. im suprised.. by sjwt · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Im realy suprised that this isnt
    installed in all those companys
    with the no personal web serfing/porn
    rules :)

    if you knew your bosses desktop would
    say refelct what you where surfing would
    you change?

    I sertanly would, it woudl be dilbert comics
    all the way :)

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  2. what else? by morgajel · · Score: 0, Interesting

    porn. lots of porn.

    what else would they be looking at? I know that's what I'd be doing.

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  3. amazing. like reading the gnutella traffic by kipple · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...more or less the content is the same, except that in the gnutella traffic there's no ads forced to appear. so basically reading the gnutella traffic flow is like watching a "live" statistic of what human beings are doing online.

    on the other hand, if you remove any porn- related keyword, probably you could reduce the traffic by a great 80%. but that's another issue (I thought of that because the 'sex' pic in the first jpeg of the article)...

    interesting though

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  4. Irony by Innominate+Recreant · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ironically, Rob Flickenger let every know what *he* was doing during Rob Johnson's keynote address as well

    Did *anyone* listen to the speech?

  5. not entirely convinced by sbuckhopper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not entirely convinced by this article.

    Okay, I guess we kind of have to take the guy's word for it, but he may also be trying to get a rise. When I look at the three collages that we've been presented with here, it seems to me that he tried to put the most shocking pictures up front of what we would be most thrown off by (except for the pr0n of course), and then hide all of the pictures of people who may have been searching on things relevant to the talk in the back of the pictures.

    As a systems/security administrator, I am not convinced that a large majority of the images snarfed here didn't have at least something to do with subject at hand and could have come from people that were legitamately trying to look up more information on what was being said. After all, what I could make out of the half to three-quarter covered pictures was that they were either typical web-adds or pictures from the O'Reilly web site.

    I would want to see all of the pictures to be totally convinced that everyone was doing time-killing browsing.

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  6. It is, at my company. by ThwartedEfforts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm using driftnet though, not EtherPeg, since I don't have OSX. The machine sits out on the floor where everyone can see all the images that are being downloaded. Few people go to non-work related sites now, even though it doesn't say which computer the image came from.