Yeah, but if you're living in the city center where there are 100+ households within range of the AP as the original poster is, chances are that at least one of them has a WiFi AP with lower security settings.
Agreed. On the other hand, if the original poster would "not even think about" using WEP instead of WPA, he probably has in interest in actual security, not merely cosmetic measures.
The point is, hiding your SSID and filtering MAC addresses do not make your network more secure. They might keep out a few really clueless idiots, but hardly anyone who knows enough to crack WEP encryption.
And if they're just playing around, having the extra security may make you MORE of a target since you'd be the biggest challenge.
Sorry, I don't buy that one. As far as I know, WPA is not yet broken, and I'm fairly certain that using WEP and a hidden SSID is a better way to invite J.Random Scriptkiddie into my network than using, you know, real encryption.
Sniffing the AP's traffic. That admittedly requires the AP to actually be used every now and then, but I wouldn't want to "secure" my wifi by not using it...
Distributing and trying to obtain "hacking tools" is a crime. Trouble is, nobody (including the legislators!) have any idea what exactly a "hacking tool" is...
I did not say he didn't do any harm. He did hack into * army, navy, NASA and DoD computers. But I think that breaking into unsecured computers in order to give the world access to the US-Government's hidden aliens spacecraft technology can hardly be called "screwing someone over for his own advantage".
Wacky? Definitely. Evil? I don't think so.
The problem is: These various government agencies need a scapegoat. Having a Scottish hairdresser turned nutjob owning Navy computers shortly after 9/11 is just something that makes them look bad, so they have to present him as some sort of evil terrorist mastermind and threat to national security. So I doubt he will get a fair trial or a punishment that fits his crime.
* I am using this term in the loosest possible sense. According to him, the computer were unsecured windows boxes which every script kiddie could have pwned. He describes himself as not even being a hacker.
Same as always: do something for the common good? Praise on you. Screw someone over for your own advantage? Damnation on you.
But neither of those categories applies to this case. Well, in his mind the first one probably does. And even though I obviously wouldn't agree with him, I fail to see how he screwed anyone over for his advantage
Great idea. After all, we all know that denying people access to knowledge and keeping them stupid is the best way to help them free themselves from oppression.
Valid argument, bad example. The problem with ozone is not that it's "oxygen in excess", but that it is a different substance than what you usually mean when you say oxygen.
That's funny. I know quite a lot of musicians, photographers and graphic artists who use whatever tool/os suits their needs best. Which may or may not be Macs, but none of them use macs (or anything else for that matter) exclusively.
But apparently you are only creative if you use a mac. Seriously, how did this crap get modded insightful?
I'm not saying that it isn't exhausting, but I don't think that walking is the problem here, standing is. In fact, when I have to stand for a long time, I'm pretty happy when I can walk around for a while (and definitely would not pass on this chance so I can stand on a vehicle instead).
Seriously. If you have a convention you're going to be at for 12+ hours out of a day, spanning anywhere from a quarter to 2 miles (think fairgrounds perhaps here) then being able to hang a ride on a device like that could be a godsend for your legs (when I was doing it on foot I barely had enough energy left to either walk the half mile back to my hotel, or worse yet the half mile to my car followed by a commute out of town to my hotel.)
No offense, but if you have trouble walking 2 miles in a couple of hours, you should probably use every opportunity to get some exercise.
Your point about Segways being a kind of hipper wheelchair makes sense, though.
1/113 billion chance a particular person has the same DNA profile as me. 6 million records. So I have a 6 million / 113 billion chance of matching someone else in the database.
No, you don't. I'm not really a math geek, but if your calculation was right, you would have a 100% chance of matching someone else in a (hypothetical) database of 113 billion people (and a even higher chance in a bigger database, which doesn't really make sense)
If I'm not mistaken, your chance to match a given person should be something like (1 / 113 billion)) and your chance of matching anyone in the database would be 1 - ((1 - (1 / 113 Billion)) ** (6 million)).
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (which is entirely possible, I didn't have my morning coffee yet.)
You are obviously vastly overrating the meaning of being under their surveillance. I mean, several political parties are under their surveillance, even one that is in the federal parliament...
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Just how old are you?
He's 16.
Yeah, but if you're living in the city center where there are 100+ households within range of the AP as the original poster is, chances are that at least one of them has a WiFi AP with lower security settings.
Agreed. On the other hand, if the original poster would "not even think about" using WEP instead of WPA, he probably has in interest in actual security, not merely cosmetic measures.
The point is, hiding your SSID and filtering MAC addresses do not make your network more secure. They might keep out a few really clueless idiots, but hardly anyone who knows enough to crack WEP encryption.
And if they're just playing around, having the extra security may make you MORE of a target since you'd be the biggest challenge.
Sorry, I don't buy that one. As far as I know, WPA is not yet broken, and I'm fairly certain that using WEP and a hidden SSID is a better way to invite J.Random Scriptkiddie into my network than using, you know, real encryption.
Sniffing the AP's traffic. That admittedly requires the AP to actually be used every now and then, but I wouldn't want to "secure" my wifi by not using it...
I would assume that almost everybody capable of cracking WEP also knows how to spoof a MAC adress and find "hidden" access points.
-1, stupid comparisons
No, the gp is wrong.
Distributing and trying to obtain "hacking tools" is a crime. Trouble is, nobody (including the legislators!) have any idea what exactly a "hacking tool" is...
Crash it, I guess. What's more puzzling to me is the question how this factoid is related to sun and mysql...
Thank God we have you to tell us what's funny....
It's spelled Deutsche Telekom, not Deutche.
Yeah, either that applies, or the "suspected terrorists" are secretly flown to gitmo.
I did not say he didn't do any harm. He did hack into * army, navy, NASA and DoD computers. But I think that breaking into unsecured computers in order to give the world access to the US-Government's hidden aliens spacecraft technology can hardly be called "screwing someone over for his own advantage".
Wacky? Definitely. Evil? I don't think so.
The problem is: These various government agencies need a scapegoat. Having a Scottish hairdresser turned nutjob owning Navy computers shortly after 9/11 is just something that makes them look bad, so they have to present him as some sort of evil terrorist mastermind and threat to national security. So I doubt he will get a fair trial or a punishment that fits his crime.
* I am using this term in the loosest possible sense. According to him, the computer were unsecured windows boxes which every script kiddie could have pwned. He describes himself as not even being a hacker.
Same as always: do something for the common good? Praise on you. Screw someone over for your own advantage? Damnation on you.
But neither of those categories applies to this case. Well, in his mind the first one probably does. And even though I obviously wouldn't agree with him, I fail to see how he screwed anyone over for his advantage
Great idea. After all, we all know that denying people access to knowledge and keeping them stupid is the best way to help them free themselves from oppression.
1) My experience is that most students tend to think of themselves as the smartest ones. That includes artsy types as much as CS and maths students
2) CS is not about knowing how to use a computer.
Valid argument, bad example. The problem with ozone is not that it's "oxygen in excess", but that it is a different substance than what you usually mean when you say oxygen.
Yeah, but it's more fun that way.
Regular Expressions. I love Python, it's definitely the language I use most, but its regexp support is a joke compared to perl's.
Which does not mean that it's bad, it is logical and consistent with the rest of the language, but it isn't nearly as fast and effortless as in perl
It's creatives who use Macs, exclusively.
That's funny. I know quite a lot of musicians, photographers and graphic artists who use whatever tool/os suits their needs best. Which may or may not be Macs, but none of them use macs (or anything else for that matter) exclusively.
But apparently you are only creative if you use a mac. Seriously, how did this crap get modded insightful?
I'm not saying that it isn't exhausting, but I don't think that walking is the problem here, standing is. In fact, when I have to stand for a long time, I'm pretty happy when I can walk around for a while (and definitely would not pass on this chance so I can stand on a vehicle instead).
Seriously. If you have a convention you're going to be at for 12+ hours out of a day, spanning anywhere from a quarter to 2 miles (think fairgrounds perhaps here) then being able to hang a ride on a device like that could be a godsend for your legs (when I was doing it on foot I barely had enough energy left to either walk the half mile back to my hotel, or worse yet the half mile to my car followed by a commute out of town to my hotel.)
No offense, but if you have trouble walking 2 miles in a couple of hours, you should probably use every opportunity to get some exercise.
Your point about Segways being a kind of hipper wheelchair makes sense, though.
I majored in English[...]
I realize I'm a statistical anomoly."
Because English-majors are usually better at spelling ? :)
How is Python making it hard to learn other languages? (well, apart from showing how pointless semicolons and fancy brackets are)
What we're seeing is a consequence of basic math.
1/113 billion chance a particular person has the same DNA profile as me. 6 million records. So I have a 6 million / 113 billion chance of matching someone else in the database.
No, you don't. I'm not really a math geek, but if your calculation was right, you would have a 100% chance of matching someone else in a (hypothetical) database of 113 billion people (and a even higher chance in a bigger database, which doesn't really make sense)
If I'm not mistaken, your chance to match a given person should be something like (1 / 113 billion)) and your chance of matching anyone in the database would be 1 - ((1 - (1 / 113 Billion)) ** (6 million)).
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (which is entirely possible, I didn't have my morning coffee yet.)
You are obviously vastly overrating the meaning of being under their surveillance. I mean, several political parties are under their surveillance, even one that is in the federal parliament...