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Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-point-that-laptop-at-me-sir dept.

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..."

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  1. Re:Um... "Hiawatha Bray"? by goober · · Score: 4, Informative

    ummmmmmm... is that your real name?

    yes, that's his real name. He's been regurgitating FUD pieces in the Globe for years now...

  2. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  3. ObCounterMeme by Bearpaw · · Score: 3, Informative
    How can they get hacked when it was AL Gore who invented the internet...

    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.)

    1. Re:ObCounterMeme by Theaetetus · · Score: 3, Informative
      It is impossble to invent, or even just "take the intiative in creating" a thing that PREDATES the time you are referring to. What makes Gore's statement stupid (his actual statement, not just the republican falsified version of it) is that the internet was already in existence before the act in question. He can't have taken the initiative in creating the internet for the same exact reason I can't have taken the initiative in creating the automobile. I wasn't there at the time.

      Nope, not exactly. ARPAnet was in place, but that and the modern internet (even that and the 1980's Gopher/WAIS type internet) are very different beasts.
      To use your analogy, it's more like people saying that Gottlieb Daimler didn't really invent the modern automobile because internal combustion engines already existed. They existsed in a different form, limited in use and ability, and he turned it into something usable in a car, but he didn't invent the engine.

      Likewise, Gore didn't invent ARPAnet, but he was one of the primary people pushing open, non-military use of it.

      -T