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Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the guess-who's-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Someone got permission to sniff the wireless traffic during an MIT class. The professor: none other than Robert Morris, creator of the first Internet worm! The lecture: computer security! I love it."

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  1. Thank you, Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Highest number of packets: MDNS (Multicast-DNS, Zeroconf) with a whopping 30% of all packets. Because computer Barbie says: Configuration is hard.

    1. Re:Thank you, Apple by ThrowAwaySociety · · Score: 5, Funny

      Highest number of packets: MDNS (Multicast-DNS, Zeroconf) with a whopping 30% of all packets. Because computer Barbie says: Configuration is hard.

      *rolls eyes* Yeah, what's with kids these days and their automagical service discovery.

      Back in my day, we manually entered protocol names and IP addresses. Forget zeroconf, we didn't have DNS. We kept a list of IP addresses in a text file on our systems. And if we didn't know the IP address, we went out and walked over to the datacenter, uphill, both ways, in the snow, and we wrote it down using our own blood for ink so we wouldn't forget it.

      And we liked it that way!

    2. Re:Thank you, Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      > I thought AIM was for 13 year old girls and pedophiles.

      Mmmm 13 year old girls...
      um, wait, what is this about?

    3. Re:Thank you, Apple by hoggoth · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't there there are many 13 year old girls at MIT. Draw your own conclusions.

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    4. Re:Thank you, Apple by natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now get the hell off my LAN! :)

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    5. Re:Thank you, Apple by tsm_sf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well in all fairness if the token happens to fall out you can spend hours looking for it.

      Billable hours.

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  2. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, you could say that : http://edc.carleton.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/1480737317_0d5042886b1.jpg

  3. It beats sniffing MIT students by RandomUsername99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It beats sniffing MIT students. Trust me.

  4. Re:Money well spent by Reason58 · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a lot to be said for work ethic. Trust me, I know. I'm posting this from work.

  5. Nothing new at MIT by JelloJoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing new here. The same thing was done in 2005 when I was in the class. It was done by the professor himself and the next day he was able to display the IM conversation two kids were having in the class. One end was encrypted so he didn't think he could be caught, but the other end was not, so the prof was able to display the chat. Basically the chat had something to do about how bored the student was. It was quite amusing.

  6. Re:It's not uncommon... by rgviza · · Score: 2, Funny

    At my school (ASU), after sniffing one lecture, I threw up a little in my mouth. Damned sweaty bohemians that think a magic crystal works as deodorant. Not in Arizona heat...

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  7. Asteroid? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Pose much of a challenge - shooting a single asteroid?

    I'd rather pick my bellybutton, but to each their own..