Wireless is great, but how about security? It really worries me. Apart from the buggy WEP implemention you also have to consider it would be really easy to perform some kind of DOS attack on the network. Just start your laptop and start flooding the network. Or put an antenna on your microwave oven for that matter.
How are people that are already envolved in building these networks handle these kinds of issues?
Yeah, blame 'm all of astroturfing.
Except I happened to notice that almost all comments here are written by that anonymous coward dude! No grassroots here either I guess.
Well, it's the good ol' story about the molochs that want to cage us common people like animals. There's more to it though, and it's not covered in this story.
It may seem like ISP's are having their profits rocket sky high, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of them are living on borrowed time.
They're Consuming investor money to do research, pay expensive IT-pro's and spend a lot of cash on equipment and bandwidth fees.
The truth is: What used to be so darn profitable, giving access to the Internet, turned into something that costs more than it will ever profit. Just look at the price at which Cable plants sold the past year. That is a lot of dough to be covered by a bunch of $30 accounts.
ISP's will have to change their core business to being an ASP or CSP and that is something most of them are not ready for and for a lot of them it is questionnable whether they'll ever be.
I'd go for the safe way of getting people to sign up for a long period too, if I where them.
If you don't have something profittable to offer now, then get them to be your friend and start hunting for something new to offer them before their account expires.
Wanted: A mediocre band with lots of experience in covering metallica songs. The plan is to rerelease their songs as opensource songware under the name gnutallica:) Serrie.
While the oucome sets a prejudice in the states alright, does anyone know what the scope of the verdict is? If I setup a server in say Japan, how legal is that? Serrie.
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That's a start, but it's still no solution to (for instance):
- IP spoofing
- Mac spoofing
- Dhcp request flooding
- Illegal dhcp servers on the network
MACs and IPs can literally be sniffed in the air.
I would say: No dhcp on a wireless network.
Wireless is great, but how about security? It really worries me.
Apart from the buggy WEP implemention you also have to consider it would be really easy to perform some kind of DOS attack on the network.
Just start your laptop and start flooding the network. Or put an antenna on your microwave oven for that matter.
How are people that are already envolved in building these networks handle these kinds of issues?
Serrie.
Yeah, blame 'm all of astroturfing.
Except I happened to notice that almost all comments here are written by that anonymous coward dude!
No grassroots here either I guess.
My gurunet dictionary tells me: A small amount; a bit or fragment: a snatch of dialogue. Slang. A kidnapping. Which seems more like what I saw.
Well, it's the good ol' story about the molochs that want to cage us common people like animals. There's more to it though, and it's not covered in this story. It may seem like ISP's are having their profits rocket sky high, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of them are living on borrowed time. They're Consuming investor money to do research, pay expensive IT-pro's and spend a lot of cash on equipment and bandwidth fees. The truth is: What used to be so darn profitable, giving access to the Internet, turned into something that costs more than it will ever profit. Just look at the price at which Cable plants sold the past year. That is a lot of dough to be covered by a bunch of $30 accounts. ISP's will have to change their core business to being an ASP or CSP and that is something most of them are not ready for and for a lot of them it is questionnable whether they'll ever be. I'd go for the safe way of getting people to sign up for a long period too, if I where them. If you don't have something profittable to offer now, then get them to be your friend and start hunting for something new to offer them before their account expires.
Wanted: A mediocre band with lots of experience in covering metallica songs. The plan is to rerelease their songs as opensource songware under the name gnutallica :) Serrie.
While the oucome sets a prejudice in the states alright, does anyone know what the scope of the verdict is? If I setup a server in say Japan, how legal is that? Serrie.