Since the two parties here were co-workers at one time, I wonder how the breaker got the breakee's login? Did she give it to him? Did he guess it?
In either situation his defense should be (a) she gave me her credentials or (b) her password was so weak that ergo, the expectation of privacy and security was waived.
My experience with WiMAX is it doesn't work if you don't have LOS or NLOS. Our office is in the heart of a major city on the west coast where a popular DSL-provider is headquartered. Our WiMAX service had to be cancelled because of dropped frames at our location due to the "canyon effect" created by a street full of tall office towers. Apparently, that robs their other WiMAX customers of available bandwidth as their access point attempts to retransmit.
If this is true I can't see WiMAX hitting critical mass in metro areas without signifcant buildout by the WISP. Rural areas on flat terrain would probably be okay as long as customers don't bump/move/taunt their antennas.
When I first wrote the hackers vs. crackers article in June of last year (1998), I had no idea that it would generate this much interest almost a year later.
My background is not in journalism but in UNIX and network admin. I too get frusterated when clueless editors use a term that oversimplifies. Case(s) in point: hackers, computer viruses, etc. But that's what the media does. They have to wrap issues into neat, tidy packages and present them to the masses. Otherwise they'll lose their audiences and ratings. It's wrong, yes. Will they ever change? No.
And I'm quite sure that we, the hacker community, are not the only group that has this complaint. Every field has had run-ins with the media. Just peruse the list of corrections in your favorite local rag and you'll see what I mean. Personally, I'm constantly complaining to my editor because he will often edit my articles for "brevity" and lose the meaning in the process. Then the flame mail rolls in. Arg.
The flood of email I've received from/. readers has been great. I'm glad someone is reading the column:) Maybe things will change when computers become so pervasive they won't be a hot story for the tabloid news. Then again, they need all the fodder they can get...
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Since the two parties here were co-workers at one time, I wonder how the breaker got the breakee's login? Did she give it to him? Did he guess it?
In either situation his defense should be (a) she gave me her credentials or (b) her password was so weak that ergo, the expectation of privacy and security was waived.
My experience with WiMAX is it doesn't work if you don't have LOS or NLOS. Our office is in the heart of a major city on the west coast where a popular DSL-provider is headquartered. Our WiMAX service had to be cancelled because of dropped frames at our location due to the "canyon effect" created by a street full of tall office towers. Apparently, that robs their other WiMAX customers of available bandwidth as their access point attempts to retransmit.
If this is true I can't see WiMAX hitting critical mass in metro areas without signifcant buildout by the WISP. Rural areas on flat terrain would probably be okay as long as customers don't bump/move/taunt their antennas.
When I first wrote the hackers vs. crackers article in June of last year (1998), I had no idea that it would generate this much interest almost a year later.
/. readers has been great. I'm glad someone is reading the column :) Maybe things will change when computers become so pervasive they won't be a hot story for the tabloid news. Then again, they need all the fodder they can get ...
My background is not in journalism but in UNIX and network admin. I too get frusterated when clueless editors use a term that oversimplifies. Case(s) in point: hackers, computer viruses, etc.
But that's what the media does. They have to wrap issues into neat, tidy packages and present them to the masses. Otherwise they'll lose their audiences and ratings. It's wrong, yes. Will they ever change? No.
And I'm quite sure that we, the hacker community, are not the only group that has this complaint. Every field has had run-ins with the media. Just peruse the list of corrections in your favorite local rag and you'll see what I mean. Personally, I'm constantly complaining to my editor because he will often edit my articles for "brevity" and lose the meaning in the process. Then the flame mail rolls in. Arg.
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