Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students

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Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 20, 2010 @04:56AM 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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Thank you, Apple by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-20 05:02 · 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 · 2010-05-20 05:29 · 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 · 2010-05-20 06:24 · 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."
It beats sniffing MIT students by RandomUsername99 · 2010-05-20 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

It beats sniffing MIT students. Trust me.
Re:Money well spent by Reason58 · 2010-05-20 06:14 · Score: 5, Funny

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