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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. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? by Ephemeriis · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:Thank you, Apple by metamatic · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

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