I recommend you NEVER use hotel wifi unless you have absolutely NEVER used the laptop or ipod or netbook or PSP or DSi or whatever for viewing or transporting ANY personal information.
Which means I never recomend the use of Free Wifi anywhere lol.
Remove the Hdd and use a LiveCD, and for the love of pete do not go on any bank sites or put in any passwords on any social networking sites or email! Its the only way to know for sure.
Also it makes me seriously wonder at the knowledgeably of people using Wireless cell phone internet...It is still just a radio signal folks!
Sure, if you know nothing about security. Why does everyone think wired is so secure? I would say well implemented wireless networks are more secure than the average wired network. This is because well implemented wireless networks have strong authentication (e.g. client side certificates) and encryption whereas most wired networks do not have these things.
One eetsy beetsy problem with your theory, when you have wifi, the attacker can attack FROM WITHIN your network!
Attacking from outside a network takes a significantly larger amount of time. client side certificates do jack BTW. They are easily faked.
Wired is significantly more secure especially if the internal wired connection is seperated from the iNet. There is no way to make wireless as secure or more secure or even remotely as secure as wired...
It is true that being wired does not ensure security, but to say that this fact automatically makes wireless just as good is very misleading.
Sure! Get rid of Ethernet already and good riddance! Also don't waste money on any infrastructure that does anything more than WEP. Anything above WEP is just an over-priced feature. Especially since all of your employee's with laptops know the WPA2 Password anyways, and they are GREAT at keeping secrets! Oh and your controller simply relies on the registration of the MAC address and only people with no life know how to spoof those...
Once you are totally wireless your network will be more advanced than the Pentagon! They are so old-school that they are still using physical cabling! Fiber optics yes but that is so 2005! Plus it is still such a hassle to have to plug in every single time! They wasted all of that tax-payer money when they couldve stuck with ethernet or just went WPA2 Wireless... Instead they keep muttering something about ethernet EMF emmissions or some such nonesense. Maybe they will finally become technologically savvy and switch to wireless too now that the stupid redneck Bush is out of office!
Most likely I will be typing update-manager -d on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation at around the same time all those suckers out there waste hundreds of dollars on yet another insecure Windows OS.
Sure they will have made strides at security above and beyond XP and Vista; but as long as Windows continues to use a registry, allow a user account to disable UAC for processes requesting access as Administrator without requiring a password, continue touting security through obscurity, and still refuse to adopt a similar lib model followed by Unix based OSes; they will propagate viruses, spyware, and rootkits at rates equal or exceeding today, far exceeding the rate of malware propagation in Linux, BSD, and OS X.
Really? Are we sure? This has nothing to do with IPv4 running out of addresses and IPv6 not being implemented in time?
I wonder if they just numbed down the 'technical jargon' to be featured in more mainstream news... Bandwidth issues are not as bad as the issues with IPv4...if ISP's finally stop overselling their networks this would cease to be a problem. As an added bonus, more ISP companies would be demanded by the public thus creating more jobs and more competition in the market, as well as increasing the infrastructure of the network.
Besides, the real problem in bandwidth issues is spam and botnets, not kids playing games or people watching hulu...
How do you make the case for a monopoly when it is an emerging "industry"? That would be like Hot-Air balloon makers saying, "since no one else in our industry has the capacity or desire to make a heavier-than-air flying machine, The Wright Bros. will be a Monopoly if we don't prevent them from flying!"
Besides, I doubt Google will actually charge anybody, they make their money off of advertising, and who is to say another company can't scan the same orphaned works themselves?
If you are going for cheap and he is not looking into changing his software then I suggest the following:
1.)Build a system based on Rock-solid hardware, preferably something that has been on the market for an unusually long period of time due to high demand and that generates the least heat and uses the least voltage possible. This will also ensure that if a component does go bad in the next 15 years spare parts will be more likely to be found in working condition.
2.)Setup a couple of Western Digital (Stay away from Seagate at all costs!!!) hard drives in RAID 1 configuration
3.)Run the system on Debian Stable
4.)Install dosemu and use his existing software
5.)Sleep easy!
You are referring to Europe's ISDN lines, which are not IP based they are using a digital signal over POTS, which explains the better voice clarity. IP packets are handled differently since there is much more going on at once.
I don't think 3G is good enough whether or not it gives a public IP adress is besides the point... 3G can be expected to provide 384 kbit/s at or below pedestrian speeds, but only 128 kbit/s in a moving car...Thus making WiFi really the only viable way to do it in the first place. It's not so much them restricting it just to be evil...
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Here hack this one! 192.168.1.255 or this one! 255.255.255.255 or this! 127.0.0.1
No, its mine! LOL!
I recommend you NEVER use hotel wifi unless you have absolutely NEVER used the laptop or ipod or netbook or PSP or DSi or whatever for viewing or transporting ANY personal information.
Which means I never recomend the use of Free Wifi anywhere lol.
Remove the Hdd and use a LiveCD, and for the love of pete do not go on any bank sites or put in any passwords on any social networking sites or email! Its the only way to know for sure.
Also it makes me seriously wonder at the knowledgeably of people using Wireless cell phone internet...It is still just a radio signal folks!
Sure, if you know nothing about security. Why does everyone think wired is so secure? I would say well implemented wireless networks are more secure than the average wired network. This is because well implemented wireless networks have strong authentication (e.g. client side certificates) and encryption whereas most wired networks do not have these things.
One eetsy beetsy problem with your theory, when you have wifi, the attacker can attack FROM WITHIN your network!
Attacking from outside a network takes a significantly larger amount of time. client side certificates do jack BTW. They are easily faked.
Wired is significantly more secure especially if the internal wired connection is seperated from the iNet. There is no way to make wireless as secure or more secure or even remotely as secure as wired...
It is true that being wired does not ensure security, but to say that this fact automatically makes wireless just as good is very misleading.
Sure! Get rid of Ethernet already and good riddance! Also don't waste money on any infrastructure that does anything more than WEP. Anything above WEP is just an over-priced feature. Especially since all of your employee's with laptops know the WPA2 Password anyways, and they are GREAT at keeping secrets! Oh and your controller simply relies on the registration of the MAC address and only people with no life know how to spoof those...
Once you are totally wireless your network will be more advanced than the Pentagon! They are so old-school that they are still using physical cabling! Fiber optics yes but that is so 2005! Plus it is still such a hassle to have to plug in every single time! They wasted all of that tax-payer money when they couldve stuck with ethernet or just went WPA2 Wireless... Instead they keep muttering something about ethernet EMF emmissions or some such nonesense. Maybe they will finally become technologically savvy and switch to wireless too now that the stupid redneck Bush is out of office!
Most likely I will be typing update-manager -d on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation at around the same time all those suckers out there waste hundreds of dollars on yet another insecure Windows OS.
Sure they will have made strides at security above and beyond XP and Vista; but as long as Windows continues to use a registry, allow a user account to disable UAC for processes requesting access as Administrator without requiring a password, continue touting security through obscurity, and still refuse to adopt a similar lib model followed by Unix based OSes; they will propagate viruses, spyware, and rootkits at rates equal or exceeding today, far exceeding the rate of malware propagation in Linux, BSD, and OS X.
Really? Are we sure? This has nothing to do with IPv4 running out of addresses and IPv6 not being implemented in time? I wonder if they just numbed down the 'technical jargon' to be featured in more mainstream news... Bandwidth issues are not as bad as the issues with IPv4...if ISP's finally stop overselling their networks this would cease to be a problem. As an added bonus, more ISP companies would be demanded by the public thus creating more jobs and more competition in the market, as well as increasing the infrastructure of the network. Besides, the real problem in bandwidth issues is spam and botnets, not kids playing games or people watching hulu...
How do you make the case for a monopoly when it is an emerging "industry"? That would be like Hot-Air balloon makers saying, "since no one else in our industry has the capacity or desire to make a heavier-than-air flying machine, The Wright Bros. will be a Monopoly if we don't prevent them from flying!" Besides, I doubt Google will actually charge anybody, they make their money off of advertising, and who is to say another company can't scan the same orphaned works themselves?
If you are going for cheap and he is not looking into changing his software then I suggest the following: 1.)Build a system based on Rock-solid hardware, preferably something that has been on the market for an unusually long period of time due to high demand and that generates the least heat and uses the least voltage possible. This will also ensure that if a component does go bad in the next 15 years spare parts will be more likely to be found in working condition. 2.)Setup a couple of Western Digital (Stay away from Seagate at all costs!!!) hard drives in RAID 1 configuration 3.)Run the system on Debian Stable 4.)Install dosemu and use his existing software 5.)Sleep easy!
You are referring to Europe's ISDN lines, which are not IP based they are using a digital signal over POTS, which explains the better voice clarity. IP packets are handled differently since there is much more going on at once.
I don't think 3G is good enough whether or not it gives a public IP adress is besides the point... 3G can be expected to provide 384 kbit/s at or below pedestrian speeds, but only 128 kbit/s in a moving car...Thus making WiFi really the only viable way to do it in the first place. It's not so much them restricting it just to be evil...