It's this sort of thing that permanently alienates me on a product. I will NEVER buy a product that uses low-level writes on my system for copy protection purposes, especially if they try and keep it secret.
whilst I sympathise with your sentiment there, if a company is successful in keeping low level writes secret, how will we know?
How many software packages have we bought in the past that have tried dumb things like that...?
ANother good mechanism to identify high density traffic is to measure the number of GSM cell users for given areas.
Not everyone has a mobile phone, but nevertheless a higher than "normal" number of GSM associations would indicate either a traffic jam or an angry mob...
The users that were overkeen and bought one before the price cut (I think there were eight of them) wil be compensated:
"Those who have already bought the console at the higher price will, luckily, be compensated. Anyone who already has an Xbox, or buys one before April 25th, will receive two free games and a free controller"
As far as I know the only way you will be able to get your IPaQ surfing via the config you list is if you use PPTP (poptop for linux, or use an NT RAS terminator) and then use Linux on your Ipaq, and then a recent version of PPPD should do the trick nicely.
It certainly raises the bar with regard to mapping.
Many APs allow the user to turn off the SSID broadcast, however if someone nearby has popped their WLAN card into monitor mode, this will enable them to listen into the raw 802.11 frames that carry all your precious data.
Plus anything else that happens to float by on channel 10 for instance.
sniffer-pro and more importantly airopeek both do this.
Mac list restrictions can be overcome in this manner as well: you can specify a MAC by using Ifconfig under linux:)
kismet does this nicely as part of its "ip address space" discovery work, along with cisco infrastructure enumeration with CDP.
Your plan *should* be pretty secure against casual "browsers". Unless your company has made some enemies recently or is worth something in "Commercial Intelligence" terms, you should be pretty clean.
I know its not the same sort of thing, but Interrorem have knocked up a perl script that converts Netstumbler (Wlan mapping tool) logs into UK streetmap locations.
Its very handy to get a clearer idea of where exactly those pesky APs are when you blat past them in a batmobile with a pringles tin sticking out the roof...
However there's nothing to suggest you can't use both, right?
Batteries do tend to be removeable and I am sure most of us run laptops off the mains most of the time, but if like me you go roaming about doing stuff like wardriving a 3 hour battery life just doesn't cut it.
I will be one of the first in the queue to get some methanol action...
Yes, we (interrorem) apprached.tv WRT getting a security programme going with them, but SKY (who own them) may be pulling the plug on them sometime in the future:(
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http://www.ecora.com
Remind me not to go near anywhere that offers this what with my pacemaker and all...
whilst I sympathise with your sentiment there, if a company is successful in keeping low level writes secret, how will we know?
How many software packages have we bought in the past that have tried dumb things like that...?
ANother good mechanism to identify high density traffic is to measure the number of GSM cell users for given areas.
Not everyone has a mobile phone, but nevertheless a higher than "normal" number of GSM associations would indicate either a traffic jam or an angry mob...
Somehow I think there might be another explanation:
News story
Or you co9uls just use an opensource baysian filter like
POPFile
After a bit of training it catches about 99% of the spam I usually get...
You are absolutely righy, and yet I can't help feeling that it doesn't actually matter.
Its a foosball game.
I'm sure HP have been selling something very similar for a very long time....
What with all the filtering that the Oz govt imposes, you will soon only be able to view about 20% of the net there anyway...
Everything has to be somewhere...
My son was chatting online and a piano fell on him...
The users that were overkeen and bought one before the price cut (I think there were eight of them) wil be compensated:
"Those who have already bought the console at the higher price will, luckily, be compensated. Anyone who already has an Xbox, or buys one before April 25th, will receive two free games and a free controller"
Soooo, for those of us not in the states, or too lazy to pick up a fone... WTF is it?
As far as I know the only way you will be able to get your IPaQ surfing via the config you list is if you use PPTP (poptop for linux, or use an NT RAS terminator) and then use Linux on your Ipaq, and then a recent version of PPPD should do the trick nicely.
:)
*really* too much hassle though
It certainly raises the bar with regard to mapping.
:)
Many APs allow the user to turn off the SSID broadcast, however if someone nearby has popped their WLAN card into monitor mode, this will enable them to listen into the raw 802.11 frames that carry all your precious data.
Plus anything else that happens to float by on channel 10 for instance.
sniffer-pro and more importantly airopeek both do this.
Mac list restrictions can be overcome in this manner as well: you can specify a MAC by using Ifconfig under linux
kismet does this nicely as part of its "ip address space" discovery work, along with cisco infrastructure enumeration with CDP.
Your plan *should* be pretty secure against casual "browsers". Unless your company has made some enemies recently or is worth something in "Commercial Intelligence" terms, you should be pretty clean.
Of course, I would put a VPN in *as well*...
You can see it in action here
Its very handy to get a clearer idea of where exactly those pesky APs are when you blat past them in a batmobile with a pringles tin sticking out the roof...
A friend of mine accidentally typed:
fat misgets fucking
into google....
Google knew exactly what he meant....
I know what you mean...
:)
I recently dusted off my libretto 50...
Runs linux like a charm
Good for you.
However there's nothing to suggest you can't use both, right?
Batteries do tend to be removeable and I am sure most of us run laptops off the mains most of the time, but if like me you go roaming about doing stuff like wardriving a 3 hour battery life just doesn't cut it.
I will be one of the first in the queue to get some methanol action...
Damn I knew I spent too much time at the keyboard.
Yes, we (interrorem) apprached .tv WRT getting a security programme going with them, but SKY (who own them) may be pulling the plug on them sometime in the future :(
Someone has already launched a TV channel devoted to computer gaming.... on Sky Digital...
It is more than a little sucky though...
How does this compare against the overall growth of the internet, though?
The growth in the number of people connecting to the net should be much higher....
No an oxymoron would be
"windows security"
or
"military intelligence"
or(ahem)..
"female logic"
Right.
Prohibition was proposed and passed. It turned the US into the Mafia riddled soup of corruption it is today!
Took 12 years before that particular law was fixed.