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Research Projects You Should Know About
Anonymous Coward writes "Here is a look at 10 current IT and network research projects, from active cookies to faster wireless LANs to the latest anti-phishing schemes, that could be making their way out of labs and into companies and homes soon." Still no virtual sandwich I see.
Those are the ones that weren't censored out, I assume. The real list goes something like this: 1- Virtual pr0n 2- More of the above 3- See one and two 4- Identity-theft wizard 5- 1,2,3.
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
Who does that? I STEAL Wi-fi. Wardriver for life
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
#9 is a search engine that finds 98% more porn.
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How many minutes until we see a posting from a Slashdot dude inside a huge computer case looking out of the CD slot opening proclaiming...look at me :) ?
http://buddytrace.com/
"Sharing Wi-Fi with your neighbors" - Sign me up for my Doctorate. I've been doing research into this for years. So far I have determined that it works fairly well.
I RTFA and I don't believe this is anything new; it is essentially a software based SLA with your neighbors. Frankly, I have been doing this with neighbors for a while now, albeit I do know them well.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
One of the ten research projects is "Human beings that live in computers."
/. started this in 1997.
Interesting idea, but not original:
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That one sounds like it's straight out of 1999. Quick, someone register a .com and call the VC firms!
There is somthing kinda funny about that.
Quite a few business people pay top dollar to resorts that pay that much attention to datails about them.
Maybe the spammers could quit looking for pennies & devolop software that uses their skills for people who actually want it.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
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Here is the virtual sandwich for everyone who knows that the summary is misleading.
On the first read, I thought two of these projects had oppositional goals:
Human beings that live in computers
Fighting spam zombies from outer space
...not really bandwidth, but storage.
I've been lucky to head to a couple of optics conferences, and with the keynote presentations that has been the one surprising thing (to me as a layman) that comes up time after time.
10Gbps throughput via optics is great; in fact, with the use of optics, the amount of data that can be collected for, say, scanning living tissue, is enormous. Finding a storage mechanism large enough and fast enough to store seemingly infinite amount of information, though, have been the researchers' concern.
What did they think was a solution for this? You guessed it, optical storage.
Is to explore the content that Google ignores. The next 'breakthrough' in search engines will advance on Google Images and Google Video by being able to discover objects in images and understand text in video.
Being able to search video hosting sites for a phrase without requiring manual entry of the script (if one even exists) would be incredibly useful.
Mooniacs for iOS and Android
"Sir, we have a warrent to get any encryption keys you have on your computer. You cleared your cookies in IE? Well that's too bad." -handcuff-
It gets easier and easier to get arrested.
title says it all. yet another web presentation optimized for ad presentation.
yuk.
Wow, what a TERRIBLE article.
First, it is piles of advertising and links you have to click through to get to even the very first page.
Second, the articles are written by marketing droids, it appears. "Human beings that live in computers" is a stupid marketer code for sim city.
How pathetic a slashdot article -- slashdot for sub-intelligent children...
You can download the Active Cookies whitepaper from the front page of http://www.ravenwhite.com./
It appears that Raven White, in association with RSA Laboratories, are proposing an extension to the HTTP cookie scheme whereby a cookie could be associated with an IP address rather than a domain. This would, according to them, allow a site to store a shared secret on the client which could not be obtained by third parties via a "pharming" (DNS/browser location spoofing) attack.
I'm not going to argue about the merits of the scheme they are proposing - it appears to be relatively functional.
What I don't understand is why, if what they're proposing requires extensions to the existing behavioural specification, they don't look at a challenge-response style method of cookie acquisition. This would remove the tying of cookie "ownership" to the DNS hierarchy and permit a more robust scheme of sharing information between the client and server.
A valid anology to the current system might be:
Me: Hi, my name's Malcolm, can I have the secret documents?
You: You walked in when I asked for Malcolm - here they are.
White Raven's scheme:
Me: Hi, can I have the secret documents?
You: I recognise you from the last time I spoke to Malcolm - here they are.
Cookie auth scheme:
Me: Hi, can I have the secret documents? Here's the password we agreed on earlier.
You: I recognise that password, you must be the entity I spoke to earlier or an agent thereof. Here's the documents!
I concede that the IP based cookie distribution system is simpler - but it's not much simpler, it is still open to attacks and it is less flexible. Is there something I'm missing?
Malcolm
Dammit, I read this article and I am VERY concerned. Are the spam zombies actually FROM outer space, or am I supposed to fight them from outer space? If they're FROM outer space, then at least I know where to look (you know, up towards space...I hijack the SETI satellites or something). If I'm just supposed to fight them from outer space, then where the hell do I need to start looking for them? I mean, outer space is a big battleground.
Can someone please clarify? I can only hope that they choose to face us on our home turf...but then again, spam zombies can't be hard to beat up. They're made of friggin' spam, and they move pretty slow. Furthermore, if we have to fight them FROM outer space, and they're not coming here, why are we fighting them in the first place? Isn't that more of an attack on the spam zombies? I have no beef with the spam zombies. Well, maybe some highly processed beef...
Phew. I followed the link to the original article on this, and apparently since "Researchers warn of 'Spam Zombies from Outer Space'" I think the things are actually FROM outer space. SETI, here I come!
What? No research in preventing inadvertant goatse image encounters? Those people have no sense of priorities. Nobody deserves to see those. Not even Gitmo terrorists.
Table-ized A.I.
"You could use this for engineering robot collectives," he said. "We could tell them how to engineer the minds of a group of robots in such a way that the group as a total would behave in a desirable way."
Resistance is futile.
to get it off the frontpage or Slashdot altogether, please let me know.
Quite old news, given the work that has been carried out at Churchill College, Cambridge http://tinyurl.com/h56ve
Oh my god that article title totally gave me /.-wood.
Can you do a conjunction with abbreviations?
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
With all the network research out there that is actually groundbreaking and new, why did they choose to write about spam and phishing? They are merely proposing solutions to minor inconveniences or slight modifications to existing technology. Less catchy titles, more innovation please.
I don't know about you, but this list of projects is kind of... borning.
Where is the new and exciting stuff?
I was reading through and the one project that stuck out was the emulation of people... Uhh isn't that the Sims?
Another question, it isn't a society until they create artificial politicians and artificial traffic jams to artificial dissatisfying jobs with artificial undersized paychecks. Then we get to the artificial trade agreements that give those artificial jobs away to artificial third world countries and then they need to code in artificial welfare and artificial unemployment and artificial utility shut off notices and artificial child support payments for when your artificial significant other leaves you for being an artificial unemployed person... oh the artificial horror
... we had /etc/hosts
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I wrote about this after reading the white paper. I don't think this is a particularly useful idea.
The key "insight" of the paper is that if you associate cookies with IP addresses, and not domain names, attackers can't spoof DNS to steal cookies. So a server and client have a facsimile of a "trusted channel"; if the server can recover a proper IP-tagged cookie, it knows it's talking to a client and not a man-in-the-middle.
Apart from the fact that this whole scheme is aimed at a relatively exotic exploit, which exploit accounts for only a fraction of all phishing attacks, I don't think it will work technically. The simplest reason is Javascript. Attackers don't have to relay requests for victims; they can complete a transaction and transparently direct the victim back to the server. The server need never have contact with the attacker.
machine learning is where its at
Can we get some more ads on those pages please? The 10-page/50-ads-per-page clickthru marathon isn't grabbing my attention enough.
lame.