Most people's ISP won't let you send via their SMTP server unless you're connected via their servers. If you're roaming and connected via some third party ISP, you won't be able to send mail via thier SMTP server. This is already a problem for people using dialup roaming like iPass.
Will this perhaps cause a rise in authenticated SMTP (allowing people to send mail regardless of from where they're connected, while still addressing ISPs spam-control concerns)?
Do people have better solutions to SMTP while roaming??
If it takes 100MB~1GB of packet data for airsnort to crack your 802.11 network, why not set up a cron job to telnet into your access point and change the access code after every 10MB, or so?
Doesn't seem like the overhead would be that large...
I swear I saw a Magic the Gathering card game tournament being played on ESPN2 a few months back, so it's not so far out of the realm of possibility. It would be a whole hell of a lot more entertaining than that was.
Don't expect to see those guys in the next Mountain Dew commercial or anything, but...
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You really think system administrators are the problem? I don't think so.
What do you think the ratio of code red infections on residential broadband customers boxen to code red infections on any system that actually has a system administrator is?
I have unable to find a way around the following conclusion:
I think that one of the fundamental principles that has allowed the human species to become dominant on Earth is their competitive nature. I think it's not a stretch to say that within the confines of the theory of evolution, a species MUST have a competitive nature to become dominant, and thereafter (thereby?) intellegent.
Independently, as an intellegent species progresses, the difficulty with which an group of people of given size can destroy the entire population decreases. (At first only one country has nukes, then more countries, then large terrorist groups... etc.)
Eventually a very small group of people (one person?) has the power to do so.
Refer again to the fact that any such intellegent species must be competitive in nature, and you might say that after a certain level of technological advancement, it's increasingly likely, and ultimately inevitable that the species will destroy itself.
This is not necessarily applicable to only nuclear weapons and the like. Indeed, destructive effects of technology (greenhouse?) might not even NEED a competitive impetus to set them off.
If this is a fundamental law of intellegent species, they could be quickly flurishing to the electronic age or just past, and then flashing out... all over the universe. This explains why well reasoned arguments call for intellegent life elsewhere, but it's not to be found (by us).
How can we avoid it?
- increase the difficulty for destructive technology to destroy all of us (move to more planets, etc.)?
- social constraints against allowing small groups to control such technology (I think we know better, eh?)
- advance technologies?
- - - I don't think any of these is really a good answer, but would like to find one, because I don't like the outcome!
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Most people's ISP won't let you send via their SMTP server unless you're connected via their servers. If you're roaming and connected via some third party ISP, you won't be able to send mail via thier SMTP server. This is already a problem for people using dialup roaming like iPass.
Will this perhaps cause a rise in authenticated SMTP (allowing people to send mail regardless of from where they're connected, while still addressing ISPs spam-control concerns)?
Do people have better solutions to SMTP while roaming??
Does "not a bank" mean "not insured by FDIC"?
Is it just me, or is it becoming "cool" to rebel (!) against the new Episodes?
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http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html
If it takes 100MB~1GB of packet data for airsnort to crack your 802.11 network, why not set up a cron job to telnet into your access point and change the access code after every 10MB, or so?
Doesn't seem like the overhead would be that large...
I swear I saw a Magic the Gathering card game tournament being played on ESPN2 a few months back, so it's not so far out of the realm of possibility. It would be a whole hell of a lot more entertaining than that was.
Don't expect to see those guys in the next Mountain Dew commercial or anything, but...
You really think system administrators are the problem? I don't think so.
What do you think the ratio of code red infections on residential broadband customers boxen to code red infections on any system that actually has a system administrator is?
My guess is 10 to 1.
I have unable to find a way around the following conclusion: I think that one of the fundamental principles that has allowed the human species to become dominant on Earth is their competitive nature. I think it's not a stretch to say that within the confines of the theory of evolution, a species MUST have a competitive nature to become dominant, and thereafter (thereby?) intellegent. Independently, as an intellegent species progresses, the difficulty with which an group of people of given size can destroy the entire population decreases. (At first only one country has nukes, then more countries, then large terrorist groups... etc.) Eventually a very small group of people (one person?) has the power to do so. Refer again to the fact that any such intellegent species must be competitive in nature, and you might say that after a certain level of technological advancement, it's increasingly likely, and ultimately inevitable that the species will destroy itself. This is not necessarily applicable to only nuclear weapons and the like. Indeed, destructive effects of technology (greenhouse?) might not even NEED a competitive impetus to set them off. If this is a fundamental law of intellegent species, they could be quickly flurishing to the electronic age or just past, and then flashing out... all over the universe. This explains why well reasoned arguments call for intellegent life elsewhere, but it's not to be found (by us). How can we avoid it? - increase the difficulty for destructive technology to destroy all of us (move to more planets, etc.)? - social constraints against allowing small groups to control such technology (I think we know better, eh?) - advance technologies? - - - I don't think any of these is really a good answer, but would like to find one, because I don't like the outcome!