Try cracking those without a guide or sufficient samples, much less having your code automagically process it.
At least they're organized. I've had people make up their own formats, which weren't necessarily consistent. Like month/day interchangeable, no zero padding on either, optional 2 or 4 digit years and no field delimitation (i.e., at least a freakin' space).
On item 2, that works great, if you maintain the connection. If it's lost for some reason (like a pesky building or airliner getting in the way, you're left to either predictive aiming, or blind scanning.
On item 1, a tall building would always be preferred. That gives better distance, to see over the curvature of the Earth.
I wanted to build my own UAV. It was a while back when I was planning, so the only cell network systems were PC cards (like the Nextel i1000). Of course, just like now, it's only good for when you're somewhere that has service. I've bounced the plans off lots of people, and we all came to the same conclusion. You either need gov't equipment to bounce off their satellites, or something like a mobile Iridium uplink. Globalstar could have been in budget, but the limited availability for service was a deal breaker.
We figured that it could use GPS when available, and back it up with good old dead reckoning. Airspeed, compass, and accelerometers. At the time, that would have been expensive. Now you can get more than half your avionics from a used Android phone. The majority of a cross-country flight would have to be all on it's own, and when it hits cities, it can update ground control. A little "I'm still flying" message is always nice to hear.:)
1800 feet may have a good chance of recovery for an airplane (but probably not). 1800 feet for a RC airplane where the "pilot" is just watching a video feet and wondering why he keeps seeing sky-ground-sky-water-sky-water-nothing, isn't.
You could do it with high gain directional antenna on the base station.
I've set up wifi connections with a high gain antenna on one end, and omnidirectional on the other. 2k feet was a piece of cake. You can fit an awful lot down a wifi connection like that. Video and telemetry down the link and controls on the uplink would be easy. Keeping line of sight, and having the base antenna track it are the hard parts. If it was fully autonomous flying between waypoints, that breaks FAA rules.
Really, if they want to find out who it was, they should have just waited for the video to be posted to YouTube.
That's not the only large block. There are *lots* of blocks just like it. I was exposed to a/16 that uses maybe 4/24's in it.
Even in blocks as (relatively) small as a/24, there is lots of dead space. Rarely do places properly plan ahead, You're *suppose* to only ask for your next/24 when you are at 80% *and* you expect to reach it in the near future.
I've seen shops put every unused IP on machines, just so they can say they're fully utilized, and get more blocks.
It's not utilization that is hurting IPv4, it's greed. No one gives back IPs. They just keep asking for more.
If you've let them know, and they ignore it, there's nothing you can do. You can't make anyone do anything.
You could publicly shame them. That runs the risk of lawsuits, and possibly being pointed to as the intruder.
All you should really do is unsubscribe from the list, and block any email coming in to that account. Unsubscribing won't stop the viruses, as the intruder as almost definitely fed it to their botnet. It may only (hopefully) keep you from being compromised in the future. The question is, do they delete unsubscribed accounts, or just change the subscription flag(s)?
It's good that you chose to use a unique account. It won't harm you when you block it. Think of all the users who used their primary account.
I agree, the cell phone boosters don't put out a lot of power. That's why I'm fairly confident that it's a DHS concern, which is being handed off to the FCC to enforce. Like I said, with a booster and directional antenna, you could be miles away from the practical range of a tower, and since you wouldn't hop towers, which totally ruins any hope of triangulation. If the tower antenna is a 90 degree sector antenna, that makes for a huge search area.
I had a CB booster way back in the day. The 4 mile theoretical limit on standard equipment just wasn't enough out where I was. It still wasn't great even with the amplifiers and tall antennas. That was the era before affordable cell/mobile phones, or even pagers. Hell, some people still had rotary phones.
I know all about getting blasted by the high power, not so clean, CBs. We were miles away from the nearest highway, and would still get it on TV and radio. The worst was the local hospital. We could hear their broadcasts on every TV and radio channel. I understand that they needed the power to have radio service for their full coverage area. It wasn't necessary to put out such a dirty signal that it stomped on everyone else. They always preceded their voice transmission with 15 seconds of high pitched tones. Falling asleep watching TV was a bad idea, unless you wanted to wake up to that.
It's kind of funny, we accept that everyone has a cell phone, and every home has cable or satellite TV. "Broadcast" TV doesn't make their money from broadcast coverage any more, they make it because of the viewship on the broadcast being sent back over cable. People in most homes, if they have a telephone, don't use it. Why call the line were they are only a few hours a day, when you can call the cell that is near them 24/7.
I don't look back to the "good old days" with much "good". We're much better off now.
Ya, but that's triangulating a signal, which is pretty easy, but you have to put people in the field to do it.
The FCC is most likely doing this, because it makes it harder to figure out where a cell phone user is. I'd guess it was passed by by DHS.
It can be generally assumed that they are only a few miles from a tower. Identifying which antenna they were heard on gives direction. Judging by the power, you can get distance. If they happen to hop towers, that gives you a good rough area to find the user. All that can be done from the comfort of an office.
Someone on a repeater, with a directional antenna, can be.. well.. quite a ways away from the tower. They won't hop towers, unless it happens to pass by two. Even still, it will only be a direction, not a distance. The user has an unknown possible strength. In the right environment, that can be quite a long way.
But you know what they say.. When they outlaw cell repeaters, only outlaws will have cell repeaters. I think that's right, right?:)
Anonymity is part of the freedom of speech. Not directly, but...
In the days of the founding fathers, an individual had the right to stand up and say anything he wished. He could write a letter, print a newsletter or newspaper, or express his feelings in any legal way (i.e., graffiti is vandalism, not freedom of speech).
There is no constitutional clause that says "freedom of speech, after you provide your legal name and address". It infringes on freedom of speech, as it invites retaliation for saying things which may be politically or socially unfavorable.
For example, I will honestly say that Illinois Senator Ira Silverstein, has proposed legislation which is constitutionally and morally reprehensible. In my opinion, he should be recused from his office, and tried as a traitor to the people and United States of America.
That's my opinion. Senator Silverstein would not like that much at all. If this law were in effect now, there could be a lot of trouble. Being that he has far more influence that I do with Illinois government, I would easily find myself in legal trouble. With my legal name and home address on file, I could be welcomed at my home by law enforcement with an arrest warrant and extradition to Illinois for whatever charges were levied against me.
Even if they were false, I would eventually find my way home, to find my standard of living had changed dramatically. Any significant time away from work will earn you permanent vacation time. An arrest, even without conviction, can be an excluding factor in employment. Any significant time without doing maintenance like paying rent/mortgage, bills, etc, can find you without a home.
I'm not extending this to unreasonable extremes. Those are a plausible outcome of such legislation, and likely a motivating factor.
Unreasonable extremes would be thinking black helicopters would come swooping down at night, and you'd either be renditioned or assassinated.
There's an individual outside of his home, who is accessing the wifi *in* his home.
Everyone is talking about potential countermeasures.
What about the obvious ones?
1) wire everything. That doesn't work so good for tablets, laptops in random places, etc.
2) Make it so he can't connect. Reduce the power (if possible). Pick a noisy channel, so he'll get too much interference. Shield the antenna from the direction the intruder is.
I've had to move so many access points, because people put them under desks, or with something in between Point A and B. Nope, RF doesn't pass very well through the refrigerator, filing cabinet, or the other numerous things they love to put in the way to complain. Detune it. Put the AP under the desk, so there's just enough power to reach the couch (or wherever).
I am disappointed. My real intention was buying them up, so I'd always have ammo for the shooting range. It's a lot cheaper to buy in bulk once every few years, than buying it at the range. That, and I prefer to load up the magazines at home, rather than wasting time at the range doing it.
I'm just selling to personal acquaintances who got AR15's, and now can't find ammo. I'll stock up again when the price comes down. These price swings happen all the time. Someone threatens to take all our guns, people stock up at premium prices. The threat disappears and everyone forgets, and I stock up.
I got my AR-15, just like I wanted, for under $1k. MSRP from the manufacturer is now $1.5k.People are paying $2k to $3k for the same thing.
I thought about stocking up on AR-15s, but I didn't think the market would swing up so soon. I could have doubled my money. Then again, it would make me a gray market arms dealer, which I'm not really up for. If the BATF ever knocks on my door, it'd better be to ask for directions to somewhere else.:)
I think it's kind of funny, people are so panicked. I bought in bulk (usually 1000 rounds per order) well before the consumer induced shortages started. Now I have a few thousand rounds here, and no zombies to kill.
I've been watching for supplies to be available again. They're all still saying backordered, and people are paying ridiculous prices for any little bit that does become available. I'm only now starting to let some of mine go for just over cost, which is way below market value.
I'm only suggesting longevity, because there were mentions of logging events happening there. LIke I also said, I don't have one of the vulnerable machines, so I can't see if it's true. If someone set it to store debugging messages at boot time, it could be storing stuff like drive status, and other boot messages from anything and everything before its handed off to the OS.
I do agree, it shouldn't be a show stopper. Like someone else said, there should be a routine in there that says the expected empty space is full, clear it and continue.
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If I worked there, that'd definitely be the first thing I'd print. After that it would have to be something porn related.
I guess that's why I don't work there.
I've heard there are a lot of consumers who like to be open the doors too.
I like #55..
It looks like he has some experience with NEMA strings. :)
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Try cracking those without a guide or sufficient samples, much less having your code automagically process it.
At least they're organized. I've had people make up their own formats, which weren't necessarily consistent. Like month/day interchangeable, no zero padding on either, optional 2 or 4 digit years and no field delimitation (i.e., at least a freakin' space).
They forgot to mention that it was adamantite.
On item 2, that works great, if you maintain the connection. If it's lost for some reason (like a pesky building or airliner getting in the way, you're left to either predictive aiming, or blind scanning.
On item 1, a tall building would always be preferred. That gives better distance, to see over the curvature of the Earth.
I wanted to build my own UAV. It was a while back when I was planning, so the only cell network systems were PC cards (like the Nextel i1000). Of course, just like now, it's only good for when you're somewhere that has service. I've bounced the plans off lots of people, and we all came to the same conclusion. You either need gov't equipment to bounce off their satellites, or something like a mobile Iridium uplink. Globalstar could have been in budget, but the limited availability for service was a deal breaker.
We figured that it could use GPS when available, and back it up with good old dead reckoning. Airspeed, compass, and accelerometers. At the time, that would have been expensive. Now you can get more than half your avionics from a used Android phone. The majority of a cross-country flight would have to be all on it's own, and when it hits cities, it can update ground control. A little "I'm still flying" message is always nice to hear. :)
1800 feet may have a good chance of recovery for an airplane (but probably not). 1800 feet for a RC airplane where the "pilot" is just watching a video feet and wondering why he keeps seeing sky-ground-sky-water-sky-water-nothing, isn't.
You could do it with high gain directional antenna on the base station.
I've set up wifi connections with a high gain antenna on one end, and omnidirectional on the other. 2k feet was a piece of cake. You can fit an awful lot down a wifi connection like that. Video and telemetry down the link and controls on the uplink would be easy. Keeping line of sight, and having the base antenna track it are the hard parts. If it was fully autonomous flying between waypoints, that breaks FAA rules.
Really, if they want to find out who it was, they should have just waited for the video to be posted to YouTube.
That's not the only large block. There are *lots* of blocks just like it. I was exposed to a /16 that uses maybe 4 /24's in it.
Even in blocks as (relatively) small as a /24, there is lots of dead space. Rarely do places properly plan ahead, You're *suppose* to only ask for your next /24 when you are at 80% *and* you expect to reach it in the near future.
I've seen shops put every unused IP on machines, just so they can say they're fully utilized, and get more blocks.
It's not utilization that is hurting IPv4, it's greed. No one gives back IPs. They just keep asking for more.
What? You don't fall for "MaryJaneBarely18XXX wants to be your friend" requests? :)
^ ^ ^ ^ This too. It's a sysadmin list, so I'd hope they understand the problem, but there are plenty of PHB that get in the way.
If you've let them know, and they ignore it, there's nothing you can do. You can't make anyone do anything.
You could publicly shame them. That runs the risk of lawsuits, and possibly being pointed to as the intruder.
All you should really do is unsubscribe from the list, and block any email coming in to that account. Unsubscribing won't stop the viruses, as the intruder as almost definitely fed it to their botnet. It may only (hopefully) keep you from being compromised in the future. The question is, do they delete unsubscribed accounts, or just change the subscription flag(s)?
It's good that you chose to use a unique account. It won't harm you when you block it. Think of all the users who used their primary account.
I agree, the cell phone boosters don't put out a lot of power. That's why I'm fairly confident that it's a DHS concern, which is being handed off to the FCC to enforce. Like I said, with a booster and directional antenna, you could be miles away from the practical range of a tower, and since you wouldn't hop towers, which totally ruins any hope of triangulation. If the tower antenna is a 90 degree sector antenna, that makes for a huge search area.
I had a CB booster way back in the day. The 4 mile theoretical limit on standard equipment just wasn't enough out where I was. It still wasn't great even with the amplifiers and tall antennas. That was the era before affordable cell/mobile phones, or even pagers. Hell, some people still had rotary phones.
I know all about getting blasted by the high power, not so clean, CBs. We were miles away from the nearest highway, and would still get it on TV and radio. The worst was the local hospital. We could hear their broadcasts on every TV and radio channel. I understand that they needed the power to have radio service for their full coverage area. It wasn't necessary to put out such a dirty signal that it stomped on everyone else. They always preceded their voice transmission with 15 seconds of high pitched tones. Falling asleep watching TV was a bad idea, unless you wanted to wake up to that.
It's kind of funny, we accept that everyone has a cell phone, and every home has cable or satellite TV. "Broadcast" TV doesn't make their money from broadcast coverage any more, they make it because of the viewship on the broadcast being sent back over cable. People in most homes, if they have a telephone, don't use it. Why call the line were they are only a few hours a day, when you can call the cell that is near them 24/7.
I don't look back to the "good old days" with much "good". We're much better off now.
As there are restrictions which have been deemed constitutional, those are a necessary evil.
I don't know of any exclusions to free speech, such as those who have committed a violent crime, or convicted felons.
Perfect security.. Put some aluminum foil over it to finish your safety precautions. :)
Ya, but that's triangulating a signal, which is pretty easy, but you have to put people in the field to do it.
The FCC is most likely doing this, because it makes it harder to figure out where a cell phone user is. I'd guess it was passed by by DHS.
It can be generally assumed that they are only a few miles from a tower. Identifying which antenna they were heard on gives direction. Judging by the power, you can get distance. If they happen to hop towers, that gives you a good rough area to find the user. All that can be done from the comfort of an office.
Someone on a repeater, with a directional antenna, can be .. well .. quite a ways away from the tower. They won't hop towers, unless it happens to pass by two. Even still, it will only be a direction, not a distance. The user has an unknown possible strength. In the right environment, that can be quite a long way.
But you know what they say.. When they outlaw cell repeaters, only outlaws will have cell repeaters. I think that's right, right? :)
Anonymity is part of the freedom of speech. Not directly, but...
In the days of the founding fathers, an individual had the right to stand up and say anything he wished. He could write a letter, print a newsletter or newspaper, or express his feelings in any legal way (i.e., graffiti is vandalism, not freedom of speech).
There is no constitutional clause that says "freedom of speech, after you provide your legal name and address". It infringes on freedom of speech, as it invites retaliation for saying things which may be politically or socially unfavorable.
For example, I will honestly say that Illinois Senator Ira Silverstein, has proposed legislation which is constitutionally and morally reprehensible. In my opinion, he should be recused from his office, and tried as a traitor to the people and United States of America.
That's my opinion. Senator Silverstein would not like that much at all. If this law were in effect now, there could be a lot of trouble. Being that he has far more influence that I do with Illinois government, I would easily find myself in legal trouble. With my legal name and home address on file, I could be welcomed at my home by law enforcement with an arrest warrant and extradition to Illinois for whatever charges were levied against me.
Even if they were false, I would eventually find my way home, to find my standard of living had changed dramatically. Any significant time away from work will earn you permanent vacation time. An arrest, even without conviction, can be an excluding factor in employment. Any significant time without doing maintenance like paying rent/mortgage, bills, etc, can find you without a home.
I'm not extending this to unreasonable extremes. Those are a plausible outcome of such legislation, and likely a motivating factor.
Unreasonable extremes would be thinking black helicopters would come swooping down at night, and you'd either be renditioned or assassinated.
[queue the "four boxes of liberty" meme]
I don't quite get the problem here.
There's an individual outside of his home, who is accessing the wifi *in* his home.
Everyone is talking about potential countermeasures.
What about the obvious ones?
1) wire everything. That doesn't work so good for tablets, laptops in random places, etc.
2) Make it so he can't connect. Reduce the power (if possible). Pick a noisy channel, so he'll get too much interference. Shield the antenna from the direction the intruder is.
I've had to move so many access points, because people put them under desks, or with something in between Point A and B. Nope, RF doesn't pass very well through the refrigerator, filing cabinet, or the other numerous things they love to put in the way to complain. Detune it. Put the AP under the desk, so there's just enough power to reach the couch (or wherever).
Worst case, anti-wifi wallpaper, or even the always stylish wire screen or aluminum foil.
I vote for an all-out Faraday cage. Not only will it stop the wifi thief, but it'll keep the government mind control out... :)
Very wise sir...
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I am disappointed. My real intention was buying them up, so I'd always have ammo for the shooting range. It's a lot cheaper to buy in bulk once every few years, than buying it at the range. That, and I prefer to load up the magazines at home, rather than wasting time at the range doing it.
Nah, I want the fast ones with me. The nimble are more likely to stay alive. There's better survival in numbers. We all have to sleep sometime.
I'm just selling to personal acquaintances who got AR15's, and now can't find ammo. I'll stock up again when the price comes down. These price swings happen all the time. Someone threatens to take all our guns, people stock up at premium prices. The threat disappears and everyone forgets, and I stock up.
I got my AR-15, just like I wanted, for under $1k. MSRP from the manufacturer is now $1.5k.People are paying $2k to $3k for the same thing.
I thought about stocking up on AR-15s, but I didn't think the market would swing up so soon. I could have doubled my money. Then again, it would make me a gray market arms dealer, which I'm not really up for. If the BATF ever knocks on my door, it'd better be to ask for directions to somewhere else. :)
I think it's kind of funny, people are so panicked. I bought in bulk (usually 1000 rounds per order) well before the consumer induced shortages started. Now I have a few thousand rounds here, and no zombies to kill.
I've been watching for supplies to be available again. They're all still saying backordered, and people are paying ridiculous prices for any little bit that does become available. I'm only now starting to let some of mine go for just over cost, which is way below market value.
No, no.. Send the slow ones out the front door screaming. That way, you can safely walk out the back door to the truck and drive away..
I'm only suggesting longevity, because there were mentions of logging events happening there. LIke I also said, I don't have one of the vulnerable machines, so I can't see if it's true. If someone set it to store debugging messages at boot time, it could be storing stuff like drive status, and other boot messages from anything and everything before its handed off to the OS.
I do agree, it shouldn't be a show stopper. Like someone else said, there should be a routine in there that says the expected empty space is full, clear it and continue.