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Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students
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."
You state:
"Robert Morris, creator of the first internet worm!"
You are obviously unaware of The “worm” programs—early experience with a distributed computation
I hope this helps your reference callouts.
Yours In Akademgorodok,
Kilgore Trout, C.I.O.
I haven't been to university for 9 years, but are students really using laptops during class???
Laptops, netbooks, smart phones, tablets... Yup.
In theory they're typing notes or recording the lecture or something.
In practice, I suspect it is more of a distraction than anything else.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
son, I was in university 10 years ago using my laptop in class. it's great for taking notes, though i am more jealous of kids nowadays because they have tablets and ipads. how i would have killed for that instead of using a wacom tablet and a laptop....
it was also to disguise the fact that i was writing video games in my intro to computer architecture classes
Speaking for myself, I find them a good distraction during mandatory classes with professors I have already discovered can't teach whatsoever and I am better off reading the book (and sometimes I do that instead of use a laptop). For those who can though, I never do.
At least at my uni you can usually tell how respected the professor is by how many laptops/iPhones/random gadgets are being used in-class.
No it didn't. profile.ak.fbcdn.net = facebook.
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On the other hand, Zeroconf was basically invented by Stuart Cheshire, who works for Apple (and invented the tank game Bolo, another good way to waste network bandwidth).
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Not sure where you're from, but just an FYI... In many states, it is legal for one party of the conversation to record a phone line without the permission of the other. However, some states are "Two Party Notification States".
As a grad student, I can tell you that laptops are a distraction generally. There are a few students who can use them responsibly, but the majority play games—anything from wasting time with solitaire to wasting their parents' money in online poker. Some sit there and Facebook or IM friends. These are grad students, too... the same ones who like to boast about being more responsible than undergrads. I've never seen any of my colleagues use their laptops to take notes.
Don't egg anyone on. It raises you to "willful participant" status.
Had it escalated to a physical confrontation you may have had trouble claiming self defense.
You always want to remain a "reluctant participant".
Bolo, another good way to waste network bandwidth).
Bolo is not a waste of network bandwidth, with it's ring communication it is very light on on the bandwidth latency was always the problem.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes