What people don't realize is that the NSA is more than just what it seems. All COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) technology that is being considered for use in most any part of the gov't/DoD has to be evaluated by these people, and this process is just a very long one at that. At the rate of new stuff coming out, there is a reason why they don't have the funding that they really do need.
Why do normal people laugh at the gov't when they just announce that they are switching to a "new" technology, when in reality it's been out in public for some time. It's the same reason as above...they have to make sure that it fits all the standards to become FIPS compliant for the specified level that they want it at.
Also, quite a bit of technology is in house also, and that requires a really big chunk of money as well.
Of course, another big chunk is the "black" stuff that most people picture the gov't (or just NSA) to be.
That's right. Not only will bluetooth be affected by the vicious 802.11x standards, there's also the attack of the microwaves. These beasts also operate in the same 2.4 GHz range, and create a lot of noise to mess up those innocent signals.
Pretty soon the hackers will realize to have a Denial of Service attack they will need lots of microwaves...lots of microwaves.
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Well, it's nice to see that there are other people from UT with a brain, but as you will see soon enough, most people won't.
One of the big problems with UT going wireless is the fact that they partnered up with Lucent (that's not the problem), and the set-up that they currently have installed. What I can't believe is that the whole wireless system at UT is supposed to be 802.11b compliant, but for some odd reason, you can only use Lucent's (Orinoco) PC cards. This just pisses me off up the wazoo cause you can't even have another vendor (ie: Cisco) in your laptop because it won't work with the system that they have, even though it's supposed to be 802.11b compliant -- defeats one of the purposes of wireless.
Now I understand that "they are working on it", but sheesh. I wanted to use my Handspring Visor Deluxe paired with a Xircom 802.11b compliant card, but forget that.
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K-Pax makes reference to it being based on this movie, but I haven't seen the Spanish film to say for sure.
What people don't realize is that the NSA is more than just what it seems. All COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) technology that is being considered for use in most any part of the gov't/DoD has to be evaluated by these people, and this process is just a very long one at that. At the rate of new stuff coming out, there is a reason why they don't have the funding that they really do need.
Why do normal people laugh at the gov't when they just announce that they are switching to a "new" technology, when in reality it's been out in public for some time. It's the same reason as above...they have to make sure that it fits all the standards to become FIPS compliant for the specified level that they want it at.
Also, quite a bit of technology is in house also, and that requires a really big chunk of money as well.
Of course, another big chunk is the "black" stuff that most people picture the gov't (or just NSA) to be.
That's right. Not only will bluetooth be affected by the vicious 802.11x standards, there's also the attack of the microwaves. These beasts also operate in the same 2.4 GHz range, and create a lot of noise to mess up those innocent signals.
Pretty soon the hackers will realize to have a Denial of Service attack they will need lots of microwaves...lots of microwaves.
Well, it's nice to see that there are other people from UT with a brain, but as you will see soon enough, most people won't.
One of the big problems with UT going wireless is the fact that they partnered up with Lucent (that's not the problem), and the set-up that they currently have installed. What I can't believe is that the whole wireless system at UT is supposed to be 802.11b compliant, but for some odd reason, you can only use Lucent's (Orinoco) PC cards. This just pisses me off up the wazoo cause you can't even have another vendor (ie: Cisco) in your laptop because it won't work with the system that they have, even though it's supposed to be 802.11b compliant -- defeats one of the purposes of wireless.
Now I understand that "they are working on it", but sheesh. I wanted to use my Handspring Visor Deluxe paired with a Xircom 802.11b compliant card, but forget that.