Bad guys could very easily use that to lure your phone into connecting to their very friendly "honeypot."
So how is their honeypot going to construct the PTK without knowing the PSK? Are they going to brute force the moderately long and randomly generated PSK in time for the handshake to not fail?
I never said I was relying on the unbroadcasted SSID to provide authentication or encryption. I just said that the version of Phone 7 I saw didn't seem to have any capability for connecting to a Wi-Fi AP that wasn't advertising the SSID.
Of course many computers with built-in wi-fi, from Dell laptops to Android devices, have tools for easily disabling/powering off the wi-fi antenna. It's a physical switch on Dell Latitudes and an easy drop down from the notification bar on my Samsung Galaxy (and widgets are easy to get for other Android phones). Thus you can easily power down the wi-fi antenna and support chips when you're not using them. I do the same with the GPS unless I'm actually needing it for finding something.
It means longer battery life and better security because I don't have to worry about somebody finding an exploit in MS's or Android's wi-fi stack and setting up a drive-by trap for me to get snagged by.
I was setting up an Internet/Wi-Fi router for a friend this weekend to replace an old flaky DLINK, and I set it up with a hidden SSID as well as a moderately secure WAP2 PSK. Then I reconnected all their devices to the new setup WiFi access point (laptops, iPod, BlackBerry, my Android phone). All except for the phone running Microsoft Windows Phone 7, because apparently there is no way to specify an unadvertised SSID in WP7. Not even if you turn on advertising the SSID, connect the phone, a disable SSID advertising again. That might not be an issue for some people who don't run unadvertised Wifi at home or work, but I wouldn't want to invest in software that encourages less secure configurations.
True. On the other hand if you've got more than one really good suspect for a crime and only one of your candidates shows the right speech patterns, it's probably worth taking a closer look at that one first.
The low hood also has a disadvantage in that, in a collision, you're more likely to wind up wedged under the SUVs that are all too common now (as opposed to the 1980s). You've got a good chance of being squeezed like toothpaste into the trunk.
Ah, but do you know the names of the territories, post 1999? Also there's 10 provinces and 50 states, so the comparison isn't exactly fair. Even so, I would probably have a fair chance of getting most of the states, which is better than some of your politicians who can't even get the number of US states right.
Yep. Without Woz there would have been no Apple and Apple ][. Not only did he design the motherboard, write the code in the ROMs, he also designed the floppy controller and produced colour video using tricks that had many other people scratching their heads at how he managed it with so few components. Without the success of the Apple ][, and the business software that eventually was written to work on it (Visicalc; word processing like Magic Window; simple flat databases) it's doubtful that IBM would have entered the market as soon it did. You didn't see a lot of Commodore 64s or Ataris in business environments prior to 1981, but you might come across some Apples. Commodore did have a lot of success with the VIC 20 and C-64, as did Atari with the 400 & 800, but Apple had a big hand in pushing them forward through competition. For starters, if IBM hadn't felt as rushed and had a few more years to put out the PC, they would have had the Moto 68000 as an option and might have gone for that instead.
In 2000 and earlier people upgraded WIndows and Office every 2-3 years. Now the standard life cycle is well over 5-7 years with people hanging on to Windows XP for life.
And the ironic thing is that Microsoft is the chief reason why that happened. They switched to Software Assurance after XP and Office 2003 came out and then, with a steady source of income from people buying in each year, the pressure was off and they took forever to put out Vista and Office 2007. Then of course Vista had horrible performance and there was that whole Vista Ready sticker fiasco. Thus decision makers held off on upgrades, so that by the time Windows 7 came out, companies had already been making do with no changes for half a decade, They had stayed off the upgrade treadmill and the world had not ended.
Well, so far my 3 1/2 year old hasn't asked any questions requiring really long answers so i haven't really had a problem spending time to answer his questions. When he knows how to read and use a computer, I'll start helping him to look up stuff until he can do it by himself. In the meantime, there are lots of other opportunities for getting the child used to delayed gratification: request for toys, food treats (wait until after dinner!), TV/video watching, etc. While he will get impatient if he's tired, for the most part he's willing to wait if a set time is promised (i.e. after dinner, tomorrow, etc.)
She wouldn't have to be, but her parents might have been and she could pretend to be as well to get the religious vote. However, even in Italy it's probably a much smaller voting block than the evangelists in the USA.
Particularly in one of the few remaining countries in Western Europe with a strong Catholic presence. It used to be that it was very common, maybe practically requisite, for Joseph and Marie (Giuseppe/Maria) to be used as middle names for Catholics. A politician in Berlusconi's right wing government would be more likely to be from that tradition. That said, stella means star and is also typically a female name/postfix, so the combination made the minister's femininity quite likely.
It's funny to read the Greek Sophists (23-24 centuries ago) argue that democratic laws were just a scam where the powerless ganged up to take advantage of the powerful.
To a certain extent it's true. But it's better than the alternative where the powerless revolt, and many of the powerless and powerful die as blood runs in the streets. That generally tend to be bad all around, including for business. Democracy is an uneasy truce between the powerful and the powerless to prevent that from happening, and unfortunately sometimes the powerful forget that. Hence that observation that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants".
I'm pretty sure there are strong definitions of what constitutes a crime. Civil law covers contracts and other arrangements between private parties (including inheritance and other aspects of family law). Criminal Law covers crimes (misdemeanours and felonies), which are generally activities which threaten the basis of civil society (i.e. fraud, theft, violent crimes).
She was a bit whacko in ways, but man did she hit the nail on the head with this one.
Well, she came from a country (Communist Russia) where the Communist Party government controlled everything, was stifling initiative and individual aspirations. She was understandably appalled by this system and considered any government control a step on a slippery slope to the Soviet system, without consideration that it's actually a hill with a slippery slope on both sides and that other side that leads to a different set of unpleasant conclusions.
Now the thing is that Communist Russia was also a police state to maintain its unpopular control, and she correctly analyzed how those work. Ayn Rand was consistent in being against the pillars of the Soviet system, understandingly so. However she failed to continue her analysis to the consequences of a no-government control policy. She wrote most of her books at the height of the Cold War so it's understandable that it was so popular, especially since it was useful propaganda. However it's been 50 years since with much research done since (especially in economics on natural monopolies through network effects), so there isn't as much excuse for people to swallow her philosophy whole.
Well, they could block port 25 to everything other than their own mail server to prevent zombie hosts from spamming. Then they could have spam detection on their own server.
Or another way, it's like insurance - increase the premiums based on the risk factors. House in a flood plain? Lots of speeding tickets or prior accidents? Repeat offender? Committed a crime and drug user?
To a certain extent we already do this. Driving with undue care and attention vs DUI
The point is that minor punishment works to dissuade most people from committing petty crimes, however addicts need money to feed the addiction and will be less deterred. They are at greater risk of recidivism even if they want to stop committing crimes just to fuel their habit. I would also balance the triple sentences with more options for treatment and early parole w/ monitoring if they succeed. With the lower cost of drugs when they aren't paying for a multi-layer criminal supply chain, fewer of them would need to break laws to pay for their habits too.
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So how is their honeypot going to construct the PTK without knowing the PSK? Are they going to brute force the moderately long and randomly generated PSK in time for the handshake to not fail?
I never said I was relying on the unbroadcasted SSID to provide authentication or encryption. I just said that the version of Phone 7 I saw didn't seem to have any capability for connecting to a Wi-Fi AP that wasn't advertising the SSID.
Of course many computers with built-in wi-fi, from Dell laptops to Android devices, have tools for easily disabling/powering off the wi-fi antenna. It's a physical switch on Dell Latitudes and an easy drop down from the notification bar on my Samsung Galaxy (and widgets are easy to get for other Android phones). Thus you can easily power down the wi-fi antenna and support chips when you're not using them. I do the same with the GPS unless I'm actually needing it for finding something.
It means longer battery life and better security because I don't have to worry about somebody finding an exploit in MS's or Android's wi-fi stack and setting up a drive-by trap for me to get snagged by.
I was setting up an Internet/Wi-Fi router for a friend this weekend to replace an old flaky DLINK, and I set it up with a hidden SSID as well as a moderately secure WAP2 PSK. Then I reconnected all their devices to the new setup WiFi access point (laptops, iPod, BlackBerry, my Android phone). All except for the phone running Microsoft Windows Phone 7, because apparently there is no way to specify an unadvertised SSID in WP7. Not even if you turn on advertising the SSID, connect the phone, a disable SSID advertising again. That might not be an issue for some people who don't run unadvertised Wifi at home or work, but I wouldn't want to invest in software that encourages less secure configurations.
True. On the other hand if you've got more than one really good suspect for a crime and only one of your candidates shows the right speech patterns, it's probably worth taking a closer look at that one first.
The low hood also has a disadvantage in that, in a collision, you're more likely to wind up wedged under the SUVs that are all too common now (as opposed to the 1980s). You've got a good chance of being squeezed like toothpaste into the trunk.
More like cooking class actually. Most fingerprint readers can be tricked with gelatin.
Ah, but do you know the names of the territories, post 1999? Also there's 10 provinces and 50 states, so the comparison isn't exactly fair. Even so, I would probably have a fair chance of getting most of the states, which is better than some of your politicians who can't even get the number of US states right.
Instead of moaning "Brains!", you say "We've come for your liver"?
Yep. Without Woz there would have been no Apple and Apple ][. Not only did he design the motherboard, write the code in the ROMs, he also designed the floppy controller and produced colour video using tricks that had many other people scratching their heads at how he managed it with so few components. Without the success of the Apple ][, and the business software that eventually was written to work on it (Visicalc; word processing like Magic Window; simple flat databases) it's doubtful that IBM would have entered the market as soon it did. You didn't see a lot of Commodore 64s or Ataris in business environments prior to 1981, but you might come across some Apples. Commodore did have a lot of success with the VIC 20 and C-64, as did Atari with the 400 & 800, but Apple had a big hand in pushing them forward through competition. For starters, if IBM hadn't felt as rushed and had a few more years to put out the PC, they would have had the Moto 68000 as an option and might have gone for that instead.
And the ironic thing is that Microsoft is the chief reason why that happened. They switched to Software Assurance after XP and Office 2003 came out and then, with a steady source of income from people buying in each year, the pressure was off and they took forever to put out Vista and Office 2007. Then of course Vista had horrible performance and there was that whole Vista Ready sticker fiasco. Thus decision makers held off on upgrades, so that by the time Windows 7 came out, companies had already been making do with no changes for half a decade, They had stayed off the upgrade treadmill and the world had not ended.
I don't think that means what you think it means.
Well, so far my 3 1/2 year old hasn't asked any questions requiring really long answers so i haven't really had a problem spending time to answer his questions. When he knows how to read and use a computer, I'll start helping him to look up stuff until he can do it by himself. In the meantime, there are lots of other opportunities for getting the child used to delayed gratification: request for toys, food treats (wait until after dinner!), TV/video watching, etc. While he will get impatient if he's tired, for the most part he's willing to wait if a set time is promised (i.e. after dinner, tomorrow, etc.)
Ah, right. I forgot about Le Bourget because it' s no longer used for international flights.
She wouldn't have to be, but her parents might have been and she could pretend to be as well to get the religious vote. However, even in Italy it's probably a much smaller voting block than the evangelists in the USA.
What's the location of the first Paris international airport got to do with investors losing money?
Well they said cellular, they didn't say mobile :-)
Particularly in one of the few remaining countries in Western Europe with a strong Catholic presence. It used to be that it was very common, maybe practically requisite, for Joseph and Marie (Giuseppe/Maria) to be used as middle names for Catholics. A politician in Berlusconi's right wing government would be more likely to be from that tradition. That said, stella means star and is also typically a female name/postfix, so the combination made the minister's femininity quite likely.
I guess it uses Tesla-style stratospheric wireless power transmission :-)
To a certain extent it's true. But it's better than the alternative where the powerless revolt, and many of the powerless and powerful die as blood runs in the streets. That generally tend to be bad all around, including for business. Democracy is an uneasy truce between the powerful and the powerless to prevent that from happening, and unfortunately sometimes the powerful forget that. Hence that observation that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants".
I'm pretty sure there are strong definitions of what constitutes a crime. Civil law covers contracts and other arrangements between private parties (including inheritance and other aspects of family law). Criminal Law covers crimes (misdemeanours and felonies), which are generally activities which threaten the basis of civil society (i.e. fraud, theft, violent crimes).
Well, she came from a country (Communist Russia) where the Communist Party government controlled everything, was stifling initiative and individual aspirations. She was understandably appalled by this system and considered any government control a step on a slippery slope to the Soviet system, without consideration that it's actually a hill with a slippery slope on both sides and that other side that leads to a different set of unpleasant conclusions.
Now the thing is that Communist Russia was also a police state to maintain its unpopular control, and she correctly analyzed how those work. Ayn Rand was consistent in being against the pillars of the Soviet system, understandingly so. However she failed to continue her analysis to the consequences of a no-government control policy. She wrote most of her books at the height of the Cold War so it's understandable that it was so popular, especially since it was useful propaganda. However it's been 50 years since with much research done since (especially in economics on natural monopolies through network effects), so there isn't as much excuse for people to swallow her philosophy whole.
Well, they could block port 25 to everything other than their own mail server to prevent zombie hosts from spamming. Then they could have spam detection on their own server.
Or another way, it's like insurance - increase the premiums based on the risk factors. House in a flood plain? Lots of speeding tickets or prior accidents? Repeat offender? Committed a crime and drug user?
To a certain extent we already do this. Driving with undue care and attention vs DUI
The point is that minor punishment works to dissuade most people from committing petty crimes, however addicts need money to feed the addiction and will be less deterred. They are at greater risk of recidivism even if they want to stop committing crimes just to fuel their habit. I would also balance the triple sentences with more options for treatment and early parole w/ monitoring if they succeed. With the lower cost of drugs when they aren't paying for a multi-layer criminal supply chain, fewer of them would need to break laws to pay for their habits too.