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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 natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now get the hell off my LAN! :)

      --
      "This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
    3. 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.

      --
      Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
  2. It beats sniffing MIT students by RandomUsername99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It beats sniffing MIT students. Trust me.

  3. 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.