Unfortunately this is a rehash of old news.
The fact that Mobiles, PDAs and Laptops *can* cause interference has been widely known for a long time. Anyone that has flown in the last 5 years will be familiar with the warning to turn off these devices on take off and landing.
The possible Ban on laptops etc relate to the introduction of 'ultrawideband' capabilities for these devices which 'could affect a plane's electronics, including its instrument landing system and its collision avoidance systems'.
Ultrawideband devices are expected to hit the stores this year, and will range from laptops to PDAs to the following military applications:
Since Aircrew will not be able to tell the difference between UWB devices and regular laptops, it seems that a blanket ban may be applied.
A good overview of Ultrawideband and its political consiquenses can be found here
An article on Ultrawideband and its effects on aeroplanes can be found here
It seems that there is a growing push for integrated technologies. A great example is VoIP integration for the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General:
Sounds great doesn't it, 40% Cheaper phone calls, more secure network etc, but As more and more technologies and services get incorporated into the one implementation, the number of eggs in the basket continue to grow.
Just remember, attacks can come from behind the firewall too.
Just incase you are interested in how the government currently protects their Cisco routers:
Hello,
So I just read the latest news on slashdot about how evil spamming is, and read a couple of posts about how we should root out all spammers and torch their PC's (because frankly these people don't deserve to own PC's)....
This all well and good, but what about the slashdot effect. While I am sure that this had got to be covered somewhere on this site, does anyone ever think to warn host sites that they are about to be slashdotted? Do they have time to check their equipment and networks before thousands of people log onto their section of the web?
lets put it in context, its a punch of people that all simultaneously log onto the same host, all hoping to get a laugh. Sounds like an attack to me.
It seems to me that what some people forget is that crashing web-servers and networks is not something funny, but generally means that one of us gets woken up at 3am.
Surely some form of mirroring could be developed for links to articles?
Sorry, I'm new to all this so I had to ask.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately this is a rehash of old news. The fact that Mobiles, PDAs and Laptops *can* cause interference has been widely known for a long time. Anyone that has flown in the last 5 years will be familiar with the warning to turn off these devices on take off and landing. The possible Ban on laptops etc relate to the introduction of 'ultrawideband' capabilities for these devices which 'could affect a plane's electronics, including its instrument landing system and its collision avoidance systems'. Ultrawideband devices are expected to hit the stores this year, and will range from laptops to PDAs to the following military applications: Since Aircrew will not be able to tell the difference between UWB devices and regular laptops, it seems that a blanket ban may be applied. A good overview of Ultrawideband and its political consiquenses can be found here An article on Ultrawideband and its effects on aeroplanes can be found here
And who will run this network isolated from the people? Aibo isn't that smart.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/784/packet/apr01/ p22-enterprise.html#title
Sounds great doesn't it, 40% Cheaper phone calls, more secure network etc, but As more and more technologies and services get incorporated into the one implementation, the number of eggs in the basket continue to grow.
Just remember, attacks can come from behind the firewall too.
Just incase you are interested in how the government currently protects their Cisco routers:
http://nsa2.www.conxion.com/cisco/download.htm
is an interesting read.
(I assume this because I have a 'shiny new fake username')
Well guess what...
My name really is Bayliss. HA!
This all well and good, but what about the slashdot effect. While I am sure that this had got to be covered somewhere on this site, does anyone ever think to warn host sites that they are about to be slashdotted? Do they have time to check their equipment and networks before thousands of people log onto their section of the web?
lets put it in context, its a punch of people that all simultaneously log onto the same host, all hoping to get a laugh. Sounds like an attack to me.
It seems to me that what some people forget is that crashing web-servers and networks is not something funny, but generally means that one of us gets woken up at 3am.
Surely some form of mirroring could be developed for links to articles?
Sorry, I'm new to all this so I had to ask.