Because WEP is "Wired equivalent Privacy". It was created to compensate for the security loss of not have to physically plug into a jack - which isn't much. And for the purpose, WEP does it job. But now experience has shown that wireless security has to be greater than "Wired equivalent". Hindsight to 20/20 though.
The fact that anyone with an Ethernet connection to that network - inside job or not - could have done this is much more disturbing than the weakness of WEP.
While perhaps the ISP's have "invisible" quota, the people being affected by this are downloading truly pathological amounts: enough to fill modern hard drivers SEVERAL times over in a month.
On a 6 Mbps/s connections, if you did nothing but download all the time, you'd be downloading a little less than 2 Tb a month, roughly 4 for 5 hard drives worth (at today's hard drive sizes). That a over 200 double-layer (9G) DVD, 450 regular DVD's, 3,000 audio CD, hundred for thousands of DVD's. You could download every Linux distribution ever made with room to spare.
The people getting these notices and having their connections shut off have been approaching a MINIMUM of 1/3 this capacity (given a casual survey of those who got letter on DSL Reports and other forums), and note that these people got a at least 1 warning informing them of this.
This is truly staggering, even for the heavy downloaders here - even the warezers - you monthly download is probably WELL under that. (Even if you have no life at all you still need to time watch/play your downloads).
Even if the ISP said there were an "all-you-can-eat", there people are well beyond that. Even the big downloads might bring an elephant to the buffer and still not get thrown out (suspended), but these people are brining herds of elephants in, and then when their elephants are full, having them throw up over the buffet and repeating.
Well, its not quite THAT simple. For example, a shell in script in Bash may perform several I/O redirecitons to create file, each "redirection" being an open/write/close combination. I'm sure there are Windows program that do this, too.
Likewise a file can be opened many times at once: what constitues a version? Each close()? When the last close() is done? Some files within Windows are open, written and (almost) never closed: Index files, for example.
However, the simple "open-to-close" consistency (which, by the way, is the rule NFSv4 uses) would work in most cases.
Their gateways/DSL modems don't even let users turn off the router functionality
Bull. You CAN turn off the router functionaly and place the 2-wire Home Portal into Bridge Mode. Just go to http://homeportal/management, Click "Advanced", and uncheck "Routing Enabled".
You wouldn't happen to be from the Hazelwood center? Same thing happened to me, I was one of their SBC DSL techs (CSI), and our center had the best stats in the company, and apparently we did such a good job our center wasn't needed anymore. Thankfully, Comcast moved into the center and I now do tech support for them.
Then the President can sign or veto. If he vetos, or refuses to act in 10 days (Pocket Veto)....
Not quite - it a "Pocket Veto" only if, during those 10 days, Congress adjurns. If Congress is still in session after those 10 days, then the law is passed as though he signed it!
It already IS on Freenet
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Update on Playfair
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· Score: 2, Informative
It was posted on Freenet several days ago (almost immediately after it is pulled from Sourceforge) - SSK@5Zy5e6nlgMfN3Bh23e3YAxYBYDAPAgM,J35mMqZOsmvjpV Z77labzg/playfair/1//
There also iTunes on Freenet - SSK@0AtjJ4FQD4seLtw5Z2cAAdGy~UAPAgM/iTunes/10//
Both are edition sites. I've retrieved both on the "unstable" network. As usual, the freeent keys have been mangled by Slashdot's spacing, so remove the spaces in the keys!
Freenet has something called Signed Space Subkeys (SSK), with an SSK, the publisher generate a public and private key. The content is requested by the public key, but only the person with the private key can modify what is under the SSK.
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Because WEP is "Wired equivalent Privacy". It was created to compensate for the security loss of not have to physically plug into a jack - which isn't much. And for the purpose, WEP does it job. But now experience has shown that wireless security has to be greater than "Wired equivalent". Hindsight to 20/20 though.
The fact that anyone with an Ethernet connection to that network - inside job or not - could have done this is much more disturbing than the weakness of WEP.
While perhaps the ISP's have "invisible" quota, the people being affected by this are downloading truly pathological amounts: enough to fill modern hard drivers SEVERAL times over in a month.
On a 6 Mbps/s connections, if you did nothing but download all the time, you'd be downloading a little less than 2 Tb a month, roughly 4 for 5 hard drives worth (at today's hard drive sizes). That a over 200 double-layer (9G) DVD, 450 regular DVD's, 3,000 audio CD, hundred for thousands of DVD's. You could download every Linux distribution ever made with room to spare.
The people getting these notices and having their connections shut off have been approaching a MINIMUM of 1/3 this capacity (given a casual survey of those who got letter on DSL Reports and other forums), and note that these people got a at least 1 warning informing them of this.
This is truly staggering, even for the heavy downloaders here - even the warezers - you monthly download is probably WELL under that. (Even if you have no life at all you still need to time watch/play your downloads).
Even if the ISP said there were an "all-you-can-eat", there people are well beyond that. Even the big downloads might bring an elephant to the buffer and still not get thrown out (suspended), but these people are brining herds of elephants in, and then when their elephants are full, having them throw up over the buffet and repeating.
Well, its not quite THAT simple. For example, a shell in script in Bash may perform several I/O redirecitons to create file, each "redirection" being an open/write/close combination. I'm sure there are Windows program that do this, too.
Likewise a file can be opened many times at once: what constitues a version? Each close()? When the last close() is done? Some files within Windows are open, written and (almost) never closed: Index files, for example.
However, the simple "open-to-close" consistency (which, by the way, is the rule NFSv4 uses) would work in most cases.
Actually, Enternet 300 came from Network Telesystems (NTS), which was then bought by Efficient Networks, which was then bought by Siemens.
LUFS is unmaintained, it has been replaced with FUSE. FUSE includes a LUFS-to-FUSE bridge called Lufis
FUSE is now merged into the Linux kernel, and will appear in 2.6.14.
Bull. You CAN turn off the router functionaly and place the 2-wire Home Portal into Bridge Mode. Just go to http://homeportal/management, Click "Advanced", and uncheck "Routing Enabled".
You wouldn't happen to be from the Hazelwood center? Same thing happened to me, I was one of their SBC DSL techs (CSI), and our center had the best stats in the company, and apparently we did such a good job our center wasn't needed anymore. Thankfully, Comcast moved into the center and I now do tech support for them.
Then the President can sign or veto. If he vetos, or refuses to act in 10 days (Pocket Veto)....
Not quite - it a "Pocket Veto" only if, during those 10 days, Congress adjurns. If Congress is still in session after those 10 days, then the law is passed as though he signed it!
It was posted on Freenet several days ago (almost immediately after it is pulled from Sourceforge) - SSK@5Zy5e6nlgMfN3Bh23e3YAxYBYDAPAgM,J35mMqZOsmvjpV Z77labzg/playfair/1//
There also iTunes on Freenet - SSK@0AtjJ4FQD4seLtw5Z2cAAdGy~UAPAgM/iTunes/10//
Both are edition sites. I've retrieved both on the "unstable" network. As usual, the freeent keys have been mangled by Slashdot's spacing, so remove the spaces in the keys!
Freenet has something called Signed Space Subkeys (SSK), with an SSK, the publisher generate a public and private key. The content is requested by the public key, but only the person with the private key can modify what is under the SSK.
nmap -sS -O -p 80 -v www.linuxdoc.org
..)
Starting nmap V. 2.3BETA14 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
(..snip, snip
Remote OS guesses: Solaris 2.6 - 2.7, Solaris 7