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Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat?
Hiawatha writes "Excuse me for tooting my own horn, but check out my story in today's Boston Globe about a possible security problem at the Democratic convention next week. If visitors plug insecure laptops with wireless connections into the convention's wired network, there could be trouble..."
ummmmmmm... is that your real name?
yes, that's his real name. He's been regurgitating FUD pieces in the Globe for years now...
So... let me get this straight... they are going to connect to my laptop's wireless NIC, and then piggyback onto the wired connection? Riiiiight... This would be tough to accomplish... even in Windows.
Yes, because clicking on bridge connection is SO difficult *cough*.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Unless, of course, there would actually be a AP inside this huge faraday cage.
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
They don't allow it on the same network (I hope), but idiot XP users' boxen automatically come up in ad hoc mode, and will ASSociate with the naughty hax0rs box outside the perimeter. Probably will be dumb enough to forward packets between interfaces too! Yeeeeeehaaaa!
I don't give a hoot about their wireless network. What I care about are the massive road closures. Virtually every major route in and out of Boston, and several arteries, will be either completely or effectively closed down, starting as early as 3pm.
I-93 is being completely shut down through Boston, despite being a major interstate. The secret service is to blame for inventing imaginary truck bombs and placing the possible risks to security of the privileged few over the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people- workers in Boston were essentially told to fuck off and take a vacation during the convention. Menino and the DNC are to blame for ignoring obvious potential "security considerations" inherent in the Fleet Center; the new convention center would have done nicely, except it wouldn't have gotten the delegates their precious stadium seating, nor would it have given the press their precious skyboxes. Oh, and it would have meant a longer cab drive to the hotel. Boo hoo, poor rich politicians.
I can't see Kerry doing very well at all in working-class neighborhoods in eastern MA. In fact, I'd be willing to bet he'll loose them in a landslide. Virtually everyone I've met who has to commute into boston is unbelievably -PISSED- at the convention.
Oh, and then there are the random package searches on the MBTA, the closing of North Station (which is IN the Fleet Center), the mandatory searches on the Orange Line...what else? Oh, the Boston Patrollman's Association is going to be picketing ALL the DNC parties, which has hurt the few local businesses which were lucky enough to get some DNC business; losses were estimated at $80M statewide, but will most likely be higher thanks to BPA.
Let's see, what else? Ah, yes. The "internment camp", oops, I mean, "free speech zone", which is a fenced-in pen topped with barbed wire. Yeah, great idea- let's put right-wing nutjobs(Christian Coalition) in with extreme left fruitcakes into a TINY little box, with ONE entrance and ONE exit. Nah, they won't fight with each other!
Please help metamoderate.
Granite Island Group has already one-upped this story. Fuck wireless security, we're talking about actual bona fide security problems here.
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Har. Har.
It was Republicans who invented that claim. What Gore actually said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet". Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf -- two of the people who did "invent the internet" have publicly stated that "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development." Repub spinmasters pushed the reworded version hard as part of their successful effort to exaggerate Gore's supposed exaggerations.
(The Repub spin this time around is that Kerry always "flip-flops". That's the script, and they're pushing it hard. I guess this is to distinguish him from Bush, who sometimes flip-flops and sometimes sticks to his opinions ... regardless of the facts.)