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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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Money well spent by Reason58 · 2010-05-20 05:13 · Score: 5, Interesting

FTFA:

I got permission from Robert Morris and Sam Madden to monitor the wireless traffic during their Computer Systems Engineering class and made an announcement at the beginning of a class period explaining what I’d be doing.
He told everyone up front he was going to do this and people were still chatting, watching TV, reading about Warcraft, and updating their blogs. Just imagine how bad it would have been if he hadn't said anything. I bet some hard working people who were rejected by MIT are really happy to read this.