Our Roomba 860 is defeated on a nightly basis by my 2 year old daughter's 3 sets of wired headphones and appropriately sized oven mitts from her play kitchen. Collect all the data you like....
MARTA - Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta (or so the locals call the system).
It's probably wrong to, but I applaud the hackers. It's really only the poor folks in Atlanta that use the system (everyone else drives) and every little bit they can save helps.
I used to live in NYC. When you're shipped an EZ-Pass it actually does come with an RFID blocking bag and since it's attached to the windshield with velcro it's not really a problem to block the signal. Many rental car companies use an RFID blocking box on the windshield that you have to slide open to use the EZ-Pass (which they charge you 10x the toll for the convenience).
Down here in Atlanta (where I live now) they have a similar system called the Peach Pass however it's a sticker you put on your windshield that you can't block and can't remove without destroying it. I'd say New Yorkers have the better deal.
The system works fairly well here in Atlanta. I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and when the alerts come in it buzzes and it's quite loud with it's own alert tone similar to the one you hear during emergency broadcasts. The message appears over the lock screen and the screen automatically turns on for about 2 minutes.My wife has an iPhone on Sprint and gets very similar alerts at the same time mine does. We've noticed that if I'm at work 30 miles away she may get a message and I won't so the geographical locating is pretty good. While I have seen it for Amber alerts they most frequently use it for tornado warnings and flash floods. Both of which Atlanta gets a lot of each year and a recent one gave me enough warning to seek shelter when a tornado was spotted so I welcome the system and hope they get the bugs out in other areas of the country.
Criminals rejoice! No longer do you have to randomly break in to houses to see what there is to steal. There's now an app to tell you exactly which houses to rob.
Also of note, this is the second time they've been busted for the same thing. The last time was in the early 90s then The Humble Babe(old member of The Humble Guys) got poped with the sysop of BBS-A-Holic for using stolen credit cards to by software and hardware. They used to be called USA/FLT (fairlight).
The first thing I can think of is old dial up BBS software from the 80s. A SysOp would be able to start a chat session with a user online and depending on the BBS software, see what the person was typeing as they typed it. WWIV, Celerity BBS, LSD BBS, PCBoard BBS, Vision-X, and a million others ALL had this feature. Worldgroup BBS from the late 80s had the ability to have up to 32 users online at the same time and ALL see what everyone was typeing if you joined the appropriate chat room. These pieces of software were ALL DOS based, existing before windows and internet instant messageing was even a glimer in someone's eye.
Free transcripts and recordings (as well as videos for sale)for the event are generaly posted within a year of the event. The information is quite valuble and will not be distributed to the general public until it's been fully absorbed by those that made it to the event. Previous years are archived online (see my other post for addresses) and are quite similar in nature to those which are not currently available.
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Lock picking? Hacking? Spies? Social Engeering (my favorite)?:> Complete audio archives of previous HOPE conferances are available at
Hope2000 and BeyondHope. The 2600 radio program 'Off the Hook' airs each Wednesday at 7pm EST on the web here (I recommend the WBAI live steam) or in the New York City area on member supported WBAI 99.5FM. I also went to the conference this year (and the previous ones as I live just over the tunnel in NJ) and thought it was fantastic. My friends and I are still winding down from what was a VERY long weekend of panels by day and kicks at night...
Friends of mine in the gameing industry (All in NYC) are all graduates of Fullsail in florida. Have a look at http://www.fullsail.com/. I'm not a graduate myself so I can provide no more information then a point in the right direction...
A group of friends and I had caught Shapeshifter at the recent H2K conferance. He was giving a lecture about activism with Bernie S. (Ed Cummings). No information was presented except for what seemed to the whole audiance childish plans to annoy law enforcement officials. He made no intelligent points what so ever as to what his agenda was save cause havoc. We felt he was a 19 year old kid that didn't know anything about how the world works; a boy with a cowboy hat and a cause trying to bang hippie chicks. This is in no way a dis on 2600, I've been a supporter since '91. I just find it very hard to beleive that this individual was just minding his own business, he enjoys press a great deal but it's sad that none of this will shine a positive light on any issue as they never really state what they're trying to do.
"We're protesting the convention."
"Ok, why?"
"Because they're evil!"
"Great reason there buddy, yeah..I wanna sign up for that cause"
They don't read /. they read their email :
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thanks. we're correcting the caption on the web. (fwiw, it's correct in the paper). amy
At 08:29 AM 7/31/00 -0400, you wrote: >In your article, "Free Speech Rights for Computer Code?" located at >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/bizte ch/articles/31rite.html >there contains an error in the caption of the first picture. You >incorrectly >identified the gentlemen with blue hair as Jon Johansen while it is in >fact >the very talented webmaster of 2600.org, Macki.
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Our Roomba 860 is defeated on a nightly basis by my 2 year old daughter's 3 sets of wired headphones and appropriately sized oven mitts from her play kitchen. Collect all the data you like....
MARTA - Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta (or so the locals call the system).
It's probably wrong to, but I applaud the hackers. It's really only the poor folks in Atlanta that use the system (everyone else drives) and every little bit they can save helps.
In Georgia, talking on your phone without a hands free device is perfectly legal. Only texting is forbidden.
I used to live in NYC. When you're shipped an EZ-Pass it actually does come with an RFID blocking bag and since it's attached to the windshield with velcro it's not really a problem to block the signal. Many rental car companies use an RFID blocking box on the windshield that you have to slide open to use the EZ-Pass (which they charge you 10x the toll for the convenience).
Down here in Atlanta (where I live now) they have a similar system called the Peach Pass however it's a sticker you put on your windshield that you can't block and can't remove without destroying it. I'd say New Yorkers have the better deal.
I'm sure the NSA has a copy somewhere. :)
The system works fairly well here in Atlanta. I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and when the alerts come in it buzzes and it's quite loud with it's own alert tone similar to the one you hear during emergency broadcasts. The message appears over the lock screen and the screen automatically turns on for about 2 minutes.My wife has an iPhone on Sprint and gets very similar alerts at the same time mine does. We've noticed that if I'm at work 30 miles away she may get a message and I won't so the geographical locating is pretty good. While I have seen it for Amber alerts they most frequently use it for tornado warnings and flash floods. Both of which Atlanta gets a lot of each year and a recent one gave me enough warning to seek shelter when a tornado was spotted so I welcome the system and hope they get the bugs out in other areas of the country.
Criminals rejoice! No longer do you have to randomly break in to houses to see what there is to steal. There's now an app to tell you exactly which houses to rob.
Also of note, this is the second time they've been busted for the same thing. The last time was in the early 90s then The Humble Babe(old member of The Humble Guys) got poped with the sysop of BBS-A-Holic for using stolen credit cards to by software and hardware. They used to be called USA/FLT (fairlight).
The first thing I can think of is old dial up BBS software from the 80s. A SysOp would be able to start a chat session with a user online and depending on the BBS software, see what the person was typeing as they typed it. WWIV, Celerity BBS, LSD BBS, PCBoard BBS, Vision-X, and a million others ALL had this feature. Worldgroup BBS from the late 80s had the ability to have up to 32 users online at the same time and ALL see what everyone was typeing if you joined the appropriate chat room. These pieces of software were ALL DOS based, existing before windows and internet instant messageing was even a glimer in someone's eye.
Free transcripts and recordings (as well as videos for sale)for the event are generaly posted within a year of the event. The information is quite valuble and will not be distributed to the general public until it's been fully absorbed by those that made it to the event. Previous years are archived online (see my other post for addresses) and are quite similar in nature to those which are not currently available.
Lock picking? Hacking? Spies? Social Engeering (my favorite)? :> Complete audio archives of previous HOPE conferances are available at
Hope2000 and BeyondHope. The 2600 radio program 'Off the Hook' airs each Wednesday at 7pm EST on the web here (I recommend the WBAI live steam) or in the New York City area on member supported WBAI 99.5FM. I also went to the conference this year (and the previous ones as I live just over the tunnel in NJ) and thought it was fantastic. My friends and I are still winding down from what was a VERY long weekend of panels by day and kicks at night...
Friends of mine in the gameing industry (All in NYC) are all graduates of Fullsail in florida. Have a look at http://www.fullsail.com/. I'm not a graduate myself so I can provide no more information then a point in the right direction...
A group of friends and I had caught Shapeshifter at the recent H2K conferance. He was giving a lecture about activism with Bernie S. (Ed Cummings). No information was presented except for what seemed to the whole audiance childish plans to annoy law enforcement officials. He made no intelligent points what so ever as to what his agenda was save cause havoc. We felt he was a 19 year old kid that didn't know anything about how the world works; a boy with a cowboy hat and a cause trying to bang hippie chicks. This is in no way a dis on 2600, I've been a supporter since '91. I just find it very hard to beleive that this individual was just minding his own business, he enjoys press a great deal but it's sad that none of this will shine a positive light on any issue as they never really state what they're trying to do.
"We're protesting the convention."
"Ok, why?"
"Because they're evil!"
"Great reason there buddy, yeah..I wanna sign up for that cause"
thanks. we're correcting the caption on the web. (fwiw, it's correct in the paper).
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amy
At 08:29 AM 7/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In your article, "Free Speech Rights for Computer Code?" located at
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/bizt
>there contains an error in the caption of the first picture. You
>incorrectly
>identified the gentlemen with blue hair as Jon Johansen while it is in
>fact
>the very talented webmaster of 2600.org, Macki.
Tommy can you hear me? Turn up your fucking hearing aid. Tommy can you see me? Please change my colostomy bag.