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AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo
snydeq writes "AT&T says it won't interfere with a highly anticipated talk on intercepting cell phone calls at the Black Hat conference this week. Hacker Chris Paget last week said that he plans to demonstrate on Saturday how to set up what's essentially a fake cell tower that allows him listen in on nearby mobile calls. But Tuesday, he wrote on his blog that he had 'heard that AT&T may be considering suing me to stop my talk.' AT&T, however, has insisted it has no plans to interfere with the talk."
Remember when Chris Paget defamed AT&T by making up a false story of impending litigation in a lame attempt to create some press for himself?
(That's one way it could go.)
I also heard that Chris Paget only runs Windows Me on his desktop because he thinks everything else is just dumb. That's what I heard anyway.
Yeah sure, seems like a whole lot of fun when I can't use windows online anymore...Your assertion seems dichotomously true, and yet false. I derive great pleasure from making things that no one has had the brain-power to think up before. In that context, it seems like such "derivative works" are the product of laziness on the part of the authors to me.
-Oz
I've created many products that in the beginning stages were in fact "derivative works". However, I don't see how your line of reasoning relates to assholes writing crap-ware that fux up your windows machine to the point of rendering it inoperable. How is that supposed to be "fun" for anyone? I can imagine a modicum of smug at having ruined someone's ability to get online, but again, if you are smart enough to do that, you can do much more productive things with your time (whether or not you write "ALL" of the code involved...you know, like making Open Office work seamlessly with Microsoft Office...Or making Battlefield 2 work flawlessly on Ubuntu!)
-Oz
How does an AT&T customer know he is connecting to a fake tower?
He gets a signal.