Sniffing VoIP traffic still requires some physical access, you need to be able to intercept the packets either be on a router in-between the points or have root'ed a box in between them, or in the case of wireless be physically close to them and have a week or so to crack what ever encryption they are running on the wireless network...
have you been in a server room lately there is still expensive hardware in there. but instead of being 1 big huge box that was $1-5 mil we now have 200 + U1 server each worth $3,000-6,000 and several DB boxes $10,000-$30,000 and the Ever present SAN $250,000-$500,000 and other various network hardware. and the end users hardly have any more control then they use to. your e-mail account sits on one of those systems as do your important files, e-mail account permissions.
this is off topic but we had a drive duplicator that needed Win98 to flash upgrade it to support larger drives. so apparently Win98 will never be completely useless.
Or maybe we don't like to let some guy who is only going to be here for 30-90 days they we just met get access to a room that if someone trips over a wire/ unplugs something it could take down critical components of the company until it brought back up.
I build and support servers and there is hardly a reason to ever be in the server room. only to upgrade hardware or completely rebuild a system not of which some consultant should ever be doing.
you wouldn't need full blown X hell you probably wouldn't anything other than access to the IDE bus and memory and something to query the video card to make sure that you can display a DVD or something to it.
Actually you are correct a 2GHz 8-Bit processor would scream (for simple math and basic operations) but your limited to 8 bits which makes it tough to do some complex things that and it would be a real pain to write a program that used large/long numbers a lot would need to be swapped around:)
I got by motherboard because of the jumpers (I love setting stored in dip switches and jumpers) and my CMOS is write protected controled by a jumper i'd like to see them find a way around that.
I can do anything thing leagel on my network that i please if some trespasses on my network they are subject to being caught by me I have a server that monitors all AIM traffic at work we don't look at ever but if something ever came up about harassment we would be able to prove it. If i look at detailed log file on a server that does nothing other than log its self how is that wrong for me to do on my own network? thats bs and will dismissed as such the first time it will be challenged in a real court.
I'm using win 3.11 as the front-end for several tools (pqmagic, ghost and DriveImage and other stuff) it works great for pulling files off with out having to boot the OS if if the os is dead. some of the boxes are brand new top of the line the fastest win 3.11 would ever run on.
maybe your IT department can *gasp* make their own... I put together a win3.11 w/ NTFS and network support that runs off a RAM disk total boot time ~10 sec
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Sniffing VoIP traffic still requires some physical access, you need to be able to intercept the packets either be on a router in-between the points or have root'ed a box in between them, or in the case of wireless be physically close to them and have a week or so to crack what ever encryption they are running on the wireless network...
really all you need is a phone handset and a few alligator clips, and that's getting complex..
ok so why does he travel? I think that all of that can be done from a chair and a wireless network.
ok i usually hate off topic ramblings but
http://bootdisk.com has images of floppies of various stuff always helpful.
have you been in a server room lately there is still expensive hardware in there. but instead of being 1 big huge box that was $1-5 mil we now have 200 + U1 server each worth $3,000-6,000 and several DB boxes $10,000-$30,000 and the Ever present SAN $250,000-$500,000 and other various network hardware. and the end users hardly have any more control then they use to. your e-mail account sits on one of those systems as do your important files, e-mail account permissions.
The only problem is that it's a hardware problem and it's 103 million kilometers away. it's tough to get the onsite tech there the next day.
Wind River its a real time embedded OS its actually used on a surprisely many things..
their site is http://www.windriver.com/
this is off topic but we had a drive duplicator that needed Win98 to flash upgrade it to support larger drives. so apparently Win98 will never be completely useless.
Or maybe we don't like to let some guy who is only going to be here for 30-90 days they we just met get access to a room that if someone trips over a wire/ unplugs something it could take down critical components of the company until it brought back up.
I build and support servers and there is hardly a reason to ever be in the server room. only to upgrade hardware or completely rebuild a system not of which some consultant should ever be doing.
your running XPMCE on a laptop?? what support for video capture if there on PCMCIA cards in XPMCE?
you wouldn't need full blown X hell you probably wouldn't anything other than access to the IDE bus and memory and something to query the video card to make sure that you can display a DVD or something to it.
How bout suspend or hibernate? suspend uses very little power and hibernate uses none.
Actually you are correct a 2GHz 8-Bit processor would scream (for simple math and basic operations) but your limited to 8 bits which makes it tough to do some complex things that and it would be a real pain to write a program that used large/long numbers a lot would need to be swapped around :)
also in addition to being a craptastic user interface, it will obfuscate your config files so that you need to use webmin.
Becasue you looses a lot of quality doing that and you wont get all the ID3 tags automatically fom CDDB and you'll end up with a 60+ min mp3.
ah the trick is to put them in the microwave for 3 seconds first.
since when has xmms or any radio ever have a remote exploit that can allow an attacker to access files on your local hard drive?
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I got by motherboard because of the jumpers (I love setting stored in dip switches and jumpers) and my CMOS is write protected controled by a jumper i'd like to see them find a way around that.
tell them its used to catch terrorist. once we do that the feds will make them mandatory in the name of democracy.
I can do anything thing leagel on my network that i please if some trespasses on my network they are subject to being caught by me I have a server that monitors all AIM traffic at work we don't look at ever but if something ever came up about harassment we would be able to prove it. If i look at detailed log file on a server that does nothing other than log its self how is that wrong for me to do on my own network? thats bs and will dismissed as such the first time it will be challenged in a real court.
I'm using win 3.11 as the front-end for several tools (pqmagic, ghost and DriveImage and other stuff) it works great for pulling files off with out having to boot the OS if if the os is dead. some of the boxes are brand new top of the line the fastest win 3.11 would ever run on.
I rename my 'root' account to 'jim' and set up an account root that has no permissions and send me an email on my cell if it is accessed.
maybe your IT department can *gasp* make their own... I put together a win3.11 w/ NTFS and network support that runs off a RAM disk total boot time ~10 sec
finally a goatse.cx replacement
Microsoft BOB It was such a great idea I just installed it on my win 98 test box aaahhhhhh bob I've missed you