I have been working in the wireless networking industry for several years. I've worked with 802.11x since its early inception. Everyone thought it was going to be some great panacea. I knew it wouldn't because it was still trying to address the security issue at layer two. Jim Geier, (the individual that wrote the article referenced in the initial/. posting) and I have had discussions at length on this topic.
802.11x is little more than Cisco's LEAP technology that has been turned into an industry standard.
Trying to secure a network at layer two is extremely dificult. You're not dealing with enough intelligence and flexibility. Taking it up another layer to layer three (network layer) gives you much greater flexability.
You need to look into the wireless gateway technologies. Its easiest to think of these as being a firewall and VPN concentrator combined into one box.
Just as an internet firewall is designed to secure internal corporate networks from external internet communications, the wireless gateway once again segments your network with wired and wireless.
Encryption takes place at layer 3 using IPSec when required. Using a wireless gateway, you can have a guest user log into your network as a guest, and the gateway will allow them to access the internet, and only the internet -- and you can throttle their bandwidth down to 56kbps or whatever you'd like. However, if I were to login to the network as an internal user, the gateway would build a 3DES IPSec tunnel out to my PC before it would allow me to access ANY internal network resources.
It allows you the flexibility to give different users various levels of security based upon their login. The best part is that it does not require a client to be loaded on any end user device, and because it operates at layer 3, it is layer 2 agnostic - meaning it doesn't matter what kind of Access Point or radio card you're using.
I've deployed these solutions in hospitals, universities, even classified government facilities. (WEP is not FIPS certified, 3DES is)
From the article: U.S. District Judge James Moody ordered the restitution Wednesday, based on a formula of how much Frazier's intended victims, Direct TV and Echostar, would have lost if his scheme had succeeded. The television companies estimate they could have lost $900 million in business. Would have lost? [emphasis mine]
This is horseshit. Horseshit, horseshit, horseshit. And for those of you who don't know what that means, it's the shit that comes from a horse!
Hypothetical situation: I had an awesome scheme to rob 20 banks, but got busted before my first robbery. Does that mean I'd have to repay all the money I could have stolen?
As is already well known, Springdale and Canterwood chipsets are completely identical during wafer production. Intel in fact makes a preselection, which then leads to different packaging. Intel explains this step with the following: only when a chip does not pass the PAT test does it become the lesser-value Springdale (provided that all other quality tests have been passed).
From the beginning, Intel put safety precautions into place that would ensure that the board manufacturers couldn't easily activate the fast memory access (PAT) with the less expensive 865 chipset. The price difference with the chipset alone is at least $16, which results in a difference of up to $55 per board for the end user.
I was writing a murder mystery. I was stopped at the printer when Agatha Christie's publisher filed an injunction stating that they held the copyright on writing murder mysteries.
In all seriousness, when someone comes upon a good concept, its inevitable that others are going to follow suit. It would be one thing if they were reprinting unauthorized copies of her book...
Sounds to me like they're creating similar books, with similar storylines that are geared more towards their culture.
I say that it's horseshit, horseshit, horseshit! And for those of you who don't know what horseshit is, thats the shit that comes from a horse.
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First off, isn't it ironic that this gets posted right when the rest of the world is calling the USA fat & lazy?
In all seriousness, I work harder than a gynecologist. I put in so many overtime hours that my employer is forced to give me comp time.
Yes, I'm on salary and yes I am already ineligible for overtime because of my pay scale. However, the laws that are currently in place enable me able to say, "Hey - enough is enough and this is too much." Fortunately I am in the enviable position where the company would likely fold if I were to leave.
If they were to relax the laws of overtime - there would be nothing stopping some unscrupulous employers from taking full advantage of their employees.
As an employer, I am constantly aghast at the atrocious writing skills of the people I am forced to hire.
I sift through countless resumes that are completely unintelligible. When I think I've found someone that can actually write, I hire him and find that [s]he cannot construct a coherent paragraph.
Kids today cannot write. They have difficulty constructing complete thoughts. They think in fragmented sentences, like they're in a chat room.
College graduates that can write a decent proposal straight out of school are few and far between, and are only becoming more scarce. When I find someone that can write - I hold onto them for dear life and compensate them well. I will give someone who can communicate clearly a raise twice as fast as someone with a higher degree.
I say get rid of the computers completely! Have the students turn in papers that are hand written. When you hand write a paragraph, you are forced to think of the entire paragraph you intend to write, before the pen is put to paper. It is too easy to write a fragment of a sentence with a computer, change your train of thought, and finish off somewhere else, then go back and reposition paragraphs and edit until it reads well. Kids today are not forced to think about their writing.
If you're teaching college freshmen in a public university, the average dropout rate is ~30%. This means for 30% of your students, this will be the only 'real' English class they will ever take. Don't waste this opportunity.
Way back in the day, there was a company called Wang.
Wang made terminals and stuff for the old mainframes, they also invented and patented the Single Inline Memory Module, or SIMM memory and the SIMM slot. Yes, they were the ones that thought of putting memory on a stick and plugging it into the motherboard. Prior to that, all the computer memory came soldered onto the motherboard.
So, if you bought memory back in the day when it cost $45/meg, $1 of that was going to Wang. Wang was making huge bucks off their patent. It was their cash cow.
Then the patent expired...
Their cash cow quit giving milk, and they shriveled up. They got bought for a song in January 1999 by a company called Getronics.
I guess thats what happens when you fail to innovate.
I wonder what'll happen to Unisys...?
I USED to have ADHD. I was diagnosed as a child and put on Ritalin, then quit taking it until I was an adult.
As an adult (22), I started with Ritalin, then Dexadrine, then Adderall. All of which are amphetamines, each being stronger than the previous.
I got so SICK of taking pills everyday. I KNEW that ADD/ADHD HAD to be some sort of fad diagnosis. Sure, there are people out there with genuine ADD, just like there are people out there that are schizophrenic, but people that suffer from genuine schizophrenia are few and far between. I knew that genuine cases of ADD must be just as rare.
Why is it that 'everyone' is being stricken with ADD? Is ADD becoming an epidemic. Is it some sort of communicable disease?
I started thinking: ADD is a SYMPTOM of the PROBLEM
Whats the problem?
Is ADD my bodys way of telling me I have an amphetamine deficiency?
No...
I started doing research. I came to the conclusion that in todays day & age, we do not get proper nutrition. Especially in the United States where we live & die by processed foods. We consume more sugar than any other people on the face of this earth. And ADD/ADHD is becoming epidemic? Is this coincidence?
Now, from what I found not all people are as sensitive to eating "junkfood". Everyone is different. For example: If I were to eat nothing but junk food (fast food, candy, pop) I would stay the same weight, but my ADD would get so out of hand I'd lose my job, whereas the person next to me wouldn't lose any mental function, but would gain a hundred pounds.
I personally survived on Mountain Dew and solar power, with the occasional Twinkie or McDonalds -- and I was thin as a rail.
The solution for me involved getting off the amphetamines and starting to take Vitamins. Then eating more healthy meals.
I started taking over-the-counter vitamins, then moved to higher quality (read: more expensive) vitamins that I found over the internet.
Now, don't think that this is a quick process.
Think about this (bear with me):
If you were to break a bone, it would take some time to heal, right?
If you didn't clean out your refrigerator for 25 years, it'd get pretty gross inside of there, right?
The point I'm making here is that if you've been feeding low quality junk to your system for years, you need to "clean it out" and let your body heal itself. This takes time.
I found that your body is just like a computer, garbage in, garbage out. You can only give it garbage for so long before things just dont work right. It takes time to get all the garbage out. Just like a fat person can't expect to lose 150 pounds in 30 days...
The steps I took to go through this started with vitamins, which helped. Then I delved into "Alternative Medicine" which I found to be incredibly refreshing. Rather than treat the symptom, like modern medicine does by giving amphetamines, Alternative medicine seeks to find and treat the cause. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not some tie-died grass smokin birkenstock wearin granola eatin hippie. I'm a computer nerd, and a damn good one. Modern medicine doesn't have the answers. They're really good at treating the symptoms. Don't get me wrong, I still go to regular doctors & get checkups, but...
Then I went to a doctor who performed some tests called "EQ4" or "Electrodermal Screening" (Search Google). This testing sounds completely hokey, but I swear - this is what pinpointed the areas of my "refrigerator" that needed cleaning.
I'll tell you, starting on the EQ4 therapy really opened up the sluices at both ends. We're talking emergency evacuation here. I was just plain sick - but even though I was sick, strangely, I never felt better. The sickness only lasted for 2-3 days. From what I hear, that type of reaction is uncommon.
Once I finished that, I finally felt free from ADD. I continute to take daily vitamins (SeaSilver, if you must know) and now I simply maintain a healty body and watch what I eat.
Sending out TCP resets is something that network based IDS packages have been doing for some time now.
If the IDS 'sees' traffic it doesn't like, it sends out a RST packet to the sender, addressed as if it came from the receiver, and vice versa. So, to both parties in the transmission it looks like the other party sent out the reset packet.
The one downfall to this was that the MAC address used in the RST packet was FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. So, all one had to do is to modify their drivers to ignore RST packets when the senders MAC is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
The current method is to now use a randomly created MAC address.
Also, if you have a VPN tunnel setup, and all packets between the endpoints are encrypted; The tunnel endpoints would reject the RST command because it is coming out-of-band. Most VPN tunnel endpoints ignore any traffic that is outside of the VPN tunnel. Therefore it serves no purpose to send an RST anyhow.
That is complete horseshit. Horseshit, Horseshit, Horseshit! And for those of you who don't know what horseshit it, that's the shit that comes from a horse.
It has been a longstanding axiom in the computer security industry that "There is no such thing as absolute anonymity, in real life, or on the web." If you think that at any time you are actually anonymous, you're a fool.
All IPv6 addresses are DYNAMICALLY assignable, and there is no NATing of addresses in IPv6. NATing (Disguising the original IP) was created in order to extend the lifetime of IPv4.
You can have a statically assigned IP address that carries with the device from network to network, ala truly Mobile IP but most devices will not need functionality.
Essentially, your IP address information will be no more identifying than it already is because devices that require static IP's will still have static IP's, the rest will still have dynamic.
My TiVo box, a loyal pal, A friend I Truly care for. Because It guarantees I'll see, The shows I wasn't there for. Two thousand shows I've "taped" so far, Each Night I "tape" a new one. Who knows, perhaps there'll come a day, I'll find the time to view one.
Now I have an opportunity to get behind on all that radio talk show stuff that was previously unimportant.
Let me tell you something. The article about me written by Seth Schiesel, AKA Amis (his ingame name) is such a roving pack of lies slandering the person I really am in real life that I'm flat out disgusted by the whole thing.
Right now I'm too stunned and upset at the amount of lies, miscontext, misquotes and outright slander posted on the article to even log in.
I'll be filing a lawsuit against the New York Times for slander, as many of the things put in that article about my real life (and even ingame) are so horribly untrue or twisted and the truth stretched to paint me in a much much different light than the person I really am.
He paints me as a shy, akward, socially inept reclusive nerd which is such a contrast to the person I really am. I make racy jokes, but he paints me as a virtual rapist. I'm broke in RL, but he paints me as a suicidal, emotionally unstable man that lives in the slums (I live in a good neighborhood) and can't afford to buy food. This article is absolutely ruinous to myself, my business, my future. It's the lowest form of slander imaginable.
Even the pictures used were horrible. The first is dark and brooding and in the second picture I was about to bust out laughing, which also looks a hell of alot like crying and is just a flat out BAD pic.
Please keep any jokes off this thread as I feel serious about this. I can see some pretty horrid real life repercussions as a result of this article.
So much of what I said to him in the four days that he was here was taken FAR out of context and quotes that I had supposedly said were either entirely made up or the wording was changed to change the focus of what I was saying.
Sound familiar? Well about a month ago, another NY Times reporter by the name of Jayson Blair did the exact same thing. I just never had any idea something like this would happen to me. He told me that he was doing a general article about the community of AO through my eyes. Instead, a pack of lies gets slammed on the world's largest newspaper about me. The entire focus of the article was misrepresented.
The writer, Seth Schiesel is a reporter for the NY Times and his ingame character is named "Amis", a high level Omni MP. The article was so vicious and untrue at some points that it seems to have been written with malice in mind.
I'm so humiliated at some of the things said in that article. it shocks and amazes me how someone can so callously and deliberately say such untruths. I'm painted as a socially inept reject that never leaves his home, which is the opposite of who I really am.
It's one thing to flame someone ingame, but this goes way beyond that and extends into my personal life.....worst of all, 80% of what he says is an outright lie. The other 20% is an exaggeration or was taken out of context.
While it may not seem bad to many of you, if you knew me in real life, you'd know why I was so upset right now.
Thanks alot Amis (his ingame name). Never figured to be stabbed in back like this.
I used to work telephone technical support, and I know from experience that it is EXTREMELY difficult to troubleshoot problems over the phone. It's both dificult and frustrating.
I've grown out of the telephone tech support many years ago and now I'm an occasional user of it. I tell you there is nothing that compounds the frustration and anger of having to troubleshoot over the phone than having a language barrier.
I can't tell you the number of times that I've gotten someone who speaks broken english, or whose english skills are barely adequate - and I wind up "talking too fast" for them to understand. This is not to mention the cultural differences.
Companies like IBM and the like will soon find that customers will start avoiding their products & their company in general because their tech support is considered "Rude" or just plain difficult to understand / talk to.
Getting cheaper labor does not mean that you'll ever be able to match the quality of work/support you can get from another Red Blooded [North] American.
"We've bought up all the good companies and stifled all other innovation; we're screwed unless we can come up with something original on our own!" -- "And no, buying Red Hat isn't an option!"
I teach Boy Scouts here in the Twin Cities. I use Geocaching to help them earn their orinteering merit badge.
Rather than have me hide something, I just have them map out the Geocache coordinates on a paper map and find it themselves using a map & compass. Then I let them use the GPS so they can have exposure to guiding themselves with modern technology. To which they inevitably ask: "Did you have to actually find your way using a Map & Compass?" and comments like: "Using a paper map SUCKS!"
Can you think of anything more terrifying than a bunch of Boy Scouts hiking through a State Park?!
Heck, we always leave a trail cleaner than we found it. It's called "Leave No Trace", its one of the first things we teach our Scouts.
We pay for the parks with our tax dollars, why not let us use them as we see fit if we're not destroying anything.
Of course the RIAA numbers are going to be down where Eastman Kodak's are, people are turning to digital cameras and leaving film cameras behind in droves.
This doesn't mean that the RIAA isn't full of crap, they are. I just think they chose a poor example to compare them to.
There's an interesting Microsoft twist to the recent Sapphire Worm, aka SQL Slammer. During the days of the attack, Microsoft tried to deflect any blame by claiming that they issued a patch for the vulnerability six months previously, and that the only affected companies were the ones who didn't keep their patches up to date. A couple of days later, news leaked that Microsoft's own network was hit pretty badly by the worm because they didn't patch their own network.
The idea that we can achieve network security by finding and patching vulnerabilities in the field is fatally flawed. I've been saying this for a couple of years now. I don't blame Microsoft sysadmins for not having their patches up to date -- no one does -- but I don't like the hypocrisy out of the company. The answer lies in software programmers creating secure code.
The SQL Slammer worm also reopened the full disclosure debate. Microsoft announced the vulnerability in July 2002, at the same time they released the patch. A few days later, David Litchfield published exploit code that demonstrated how the vulnerability could be used to break into systems. January's SQL Slammer worm used that exact code. Some point to that and say that Litchfield should not have released the code, while others correctly say that the code wasn't hard to write, and that the worm author could have easily written it himself.
An amusing, but irrelevent, incident: A week after the worm, I was invited to speak about it live on CNN. The program was eventually preempted by the Columbia tragedy, but not before the CNN producers invited Microsoft to appear on the segment with me. Microsoft's spokesman -- I don't know who -- said that the company was unwilling to appear on CNN with me. They were willing to appear before me, they were willing to appear after me, but they were not willing to appear with me.
Half this nation can't count past 20 with their zipper up, and this guy expects us to count back change with 18 cent coins?
Counting by 5's, 10's or 25's is easy. The simplicity of accurately counting back the change is more important than the number of coins involved in the transaction.
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802.11x is little more than Cisco's LEAP technology that has been turned into an industry standard.
Trying to secure a network at layer two is extremely dificult. You're not dealing with enough intelligence and flexibility. Taking it up another layer to layer three (network layer) gives you much greater flexability.
You need to look into the wireless gateway technologies. Its easiest to think of these as being a firewall and VPN concentrator combined into one box.
Just as an internet firewall is designed to secure internal corporate networks from external internet communications, the wireless gateway once again segments your network with wired and wireless.
Encryption takes place at layer 3 using IPSec when required. Using a wireless gateway, you can have a guest user log into your network as a guest, and the gateway will allow them to access the internet, and only the internet -- and you can throttle their bandwidth down to 56kbps or whatever you'd like. However, if I were to login to the network as an internal user, the gateway would build a 3DES IPSec tunnel out to my PC before it would allow me to access ANY internal network resources.
It allows you the flexibility to give different users various levels of security based upon their login. The best part is that it does not require a client to be loaded on any end user device, and because it operates at layer 3, it is layer 2 agnostic - meaning it doesn't matter what kind of Access Point or radio card you're using.
I've deployed these solutions in hospitals, universities, even classified government facilities. (WEP is not FIPS certified, 3DES is)
Too funny...
U.S. District Judge James Moody ordered the restitution Wednesday, based on a formula of how much Frazier's intended victims, Direct TV and Echostar, would have lost if his scheme had succeeded. The television companies estimate they could have lost $900 million in business.
Would have lost? [emphasis mine]
This is horseshit. Horseshit, horseshit, horseshit. And for those of you who don't know what that means, it's the shit that comes from a horse!
Hypothetical situation: I had an awesome scheme to rob 20 banks, but got busted before my first robbery. Does that mean I'd have to repay all the money I could have stolen?
As is already well known, Springdale and Canterwood chipsets are completely identical during wafer production. Intel in fact makes a preselection, which then leads to different packaging. Intel explains this step with the following: only when a chip does not pass the PAT test does it become the lesser-value Springdale (provided that all other quality tests have been passed).
From the beginning, Intel put safety precautions into place that would ensure that the board manufacturers couldn't easily activate the fast memory access (PAT) with the less expensive 865 chipset. The price difference with the chipset alone is at least $16, which results in a difference of up to $55 per board for the end user.
The 875P Canterwood chipset with PAT supposedly provides a 5-7% performance improvement over 865 chipset.
WOO HOO!
TMFA's! When will we start patenting acronyms?
PAT=
Port Address Translation
Page Attribute Table
and now Performance Acceleration Technology
In all seriousness, when someone comes upon a good concept, its inevitable that others are going to follow suit. It would be one thing if they were reprinting unauthorized copies of her book...
Sounds to me like they're creating similar books, with similar storylines that are geared more towards their culture.
I say that it's horseshit, horseshit, horseshit! And for those of you who don't know what horseshit is, thats the shit that comes from a horse.
In all seriousness, I work harder than a gynecologist. I put in so many overtime hours that my employer is forced to give me comp time.
Yes, I'm on salary and yes I am already ineligible for overtime because of my pay scale. However, the laws that are currently in place enable me able to say, "Hey - enough is enough and this is too much." Fortunately I am in the enviable position where the company would likely fold if I were to leave.
If they were to relax the laws of overtime - there would be nothing stopping some unscrupulous employers from taking full advantage of their employees.
I sift through countless resumes that are completely unintelligible. When I think I've found someone that can actually write, I hire him and find that [s]he cannot construct a coherent paragraph.
Kids today cannot write. They have difficulty constructing complete thoughts. They think in fragmented sentences, like they're in a chat room.
College graduates that can write a decent proposal straight out of school are few and far between, and are only becoming more scarce. When I find someone that can write - I hold onto them for dear life and compensate them well. I will give someone who can communicate clearly a raise twice as fast as someone with a higher degree.
I say get rid of the computers completely! Have the students turn in papers that are hand written. When you hand write a paragraph, you are forced to think of the entire paragraph you intend to write, before the pen is put to paper. It is too easy to write a fragment of a sentence with a computer, change your train of thought, and finish off somewhere else, then go back and reposition paragraphs and edit until it reads well. Kids today are not forced to think about their writing.
If you're teaching college freshmen in a public university, the average dropout rate is ~30%. This means for 30% of your students, this will be the only 'real' English class they will ever take. Don't waste this opportunity.
One patron went even so far as to follow a lady out to her car.
Now the librarians are suing the city to allow filters to be put in place because it is creating an unsafe work environment.
Way back in the day, there was a company called Wang. Wang made terminals and stuff for the old mainframes, they also invented and patented the Single Inline Memory Module, or SIMM memory and the SIMM slot. Yes, they were the ones that thought of putting memory on a stick and plugging it into the motherboard. Prior to that, all the computer memory came soldered onto the motherboard. So, if you bought memory back in the day when it cost $45/meg, $1 of that was going to Wang. Wang was making huge bucks off their patent. It was their cash cow. Then the patent expired... Their cash cow quit giving milk, and they shriveled up. They got bought for a song in January 1999 by a company called Getronics. I guess thats what happens when you fail to innovate. I wonder what'll happen to Unisys...?
If you give *anyone* an amphetamine, their performance will improve, they think clearer and can perform better -- for a time.
Drugs are an interim solution.
Just think of this as being the start of a very long road.
Read my other post on this topic...
As an adult (22), I started with Ritalin, then Dexadrine, then Adderall. All of which are amphetamines, each being stronger than the previous.
I got so SICK of taking pills everyday. I KNEW that ADD/ADHD HAD to be some sort of fad diagnosis. Sure, there are people out there with genuine ADD, just like there are people out there that are schizophrenic, but people that suffer from genuine schizophrenia are few and far between. I knew that genuine cases of ADD must be just as rare.
Why is it that 'everyone' is being stricken with ADD? Is ADD becoming an epidemic. Is it some sort of communicable disease?
I started thinking: ADD is a SYMPTOM of the PROBLEM
Whats the problem?
Is ADD my bodys way of telling me I have an amphetamine deficiency?
No...
I started doing research. I came to the conclusion that in todays day & age, we do not get proper nutrition. Especially in the United States where we live & die by processed foods. We consume more sugar than any other people on the face of this earth. And ADD/ADHD is becoming epidemic? Is this coincidence?
Now, from what I found not all people are as sensitive to eating "junkfood". Everyone is different. For example: If I were to eat nothing but junk food (fast food, candy, pop) I would stay the same weight, but my ADD would get so out of hand I'd lose my job, whereas the person next to me wouldn't lose any mental function, but would gain a hundred pounds. I personally survived on Mountain Dew and solar power, with the occasional Twinkie or McDonalds -- and I was thin as a rail.
The solution for me involved getting off the amphetamines and starting to take Vitamins. Then eating more healthy meals.
I started taking over-the-counter vitamins, then moved to higher quality (read: more expensive) vitamins that I found over the internet.
Now, don't think that this is a quick process.
Think about this (bear with me):
If you were to break a bone, it would take some time to heal, right?
If you didn't clean out your refrigerator for 25 years, it'd get pretty gross inside of there, right?
The point I'm making here is that if you've been feeding low quality junk to your system for years, you need to "clean it out" and let your body heal itself. This takes time.
I found that your body is just like a computer, garbage in, garbage out. You can only give it garbage for so long before things just dont work right. It takes time to get all the garbage out. Just like a fat person can't expect to lose 150 pounds in 30 days...
The steps I took to go through this started with vitamins, which helped. Then I delved into "Alternative Medicine" which I found to be incredibly refreshing. Rather than treat the symptom, like modern medicine does by giving amphetamines, Alternative medicine seeks to find and treat the cause. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not some tie-died grass smokin birkenstock wearin granola eatin hippie. I'm a computer nerd, and a damn good one. Modern medicine doesn't have the answers. They're really good at treating the symptoms. Don't get me wrong, I still go to regular doctors & get checkups, but...
Then I went to a doctor who performed some tests called "EQ4" or "Electrodermal Screening" (Search Google). This testing sounds completely hokey, but I swear - this is what pinpointed the areas of my "refrigerator" that needed cleaning.
I'll tell you, starting on the EQ4 therapy really opened up the sluices at both ends. We're talking emergency evacuation here. I was just plain sick - but even though I was sick, strangely, I never felt better. The sickness only lasted for 2-3 days. From what I hear, that type of reaction is uncommon.
Once I finished that, I finally felt free from ADD. I continute to take daily vitamins (SeaSilver, if you must know) and now I simply maintain a healty body and watch what I eat.
If I eat t
If the IDS 'sees' traffic it doesn't like, it sends out a RST packet to the sender, addressed as if it came from the receiver, and vice versa. So, to both parties in the transmission it looks like the other party sent out the reset packet.
The one downfall to this was that the MAC address used in the RST packet was FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. So, all one had to do is to modify their drivers to ignore RST packets when the senders MAC is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
The current method is to now use a randomly created MAC address.
Also, if you have a VPN tunnel setup, and all packets between the endpoints are encrypted; The tunnel endpoints would reject the RST command because it is coming out-of-band. Most VPN tunnel endpoints ignore any traffic that is outside of the VPN tunnel. Therefore it serves no purpose to send an RST anyhow.
Have we set a record here yet?
It has been a longstanding axiom in the computer security industry that "There is no such thing as absolute anonymity, in real life, or on the web." If you think that at any time you are actually anonymous, you're a fool.
The only caveat to this axiom is if you're accessing the internet from someone else's unsecured wireless network, which is why the Department of Homeland Security is threatening to crack down on the use of unsecured wireless networks.
All IPv6 addresses are DYNAMICALLY assignable, and there is no NATing of addresses in IPv6. NATing (Disguising the original IP) was created in order to extend the lifetime of IPv4.
You can have a statically assigned IP address that carries with the device from network to network, ala truly Mobile IP but most devices will not need functionality.
Essentially, your IP address information will be no more identifying than it already is because devices that require static IP's will still have static IP's, the rest will still have dynamic.
My TiVo box, a loyal pal,
A friend I Truly care for.
Because It guarantees I'll see,
The shows I wasn't there for.
Two thousand shows I've "taped" so far,
Each Night I "tape" a new one.
Who knows, perhaps there'll come a day,
I'll find the time to view one.
Now I have an opportunity to get behind on all that radio talk show stuff that was previously unimportant.
Let me tell you something. The article about me written by Seth Schiesel, AKA Amis (his ingame name) is such a roving pack of lies slandering the person I really am in real life that I'm flat out disgusted by the whole thing.
Right now I'm too stunned and upset at the amount of lies, miscontext, misquotes and outright slander posted on the article to even log in.
I'll be filing a lawsuit against the New York Times for slander, as many of the things put in that article about my real life (and even ingame) are so horribly untrue or twisted and the truth stretched to paint me in a much much different light than the person I really am.
He paints me as a shy, akward, socially inept reclusive nerd which is such a contrast to the person I really am. I make racy jokes, but he paints me as a virtual rapist. I'm broke in RL, but he paints me as a suicidal, emotionally unstable man that lives in the slums (I live in a good neighborhood) and can't afford to buy food. This article is absolutely ruinous to myself, my business, my future. It's the lowest form of slander imaginable.
Even the pictures used were horrible. The first is dark and brooding and in the second picture I was about to bust out laughing, which also looks a hell of alot like crying and is just a flat out BAD pic.
Please keep any jokes off this thread as I feel serious about this. I can see some pretty horrid real life repercussions as a result of this article.
So much of what I said to him in the four days that he was here was taken FAR out of context and quotes that I had supposedly said were either entirely made up or the wording was changed to change the focus of what I was saying.
Sound familiar? Well about a month ago, another NY Times reporter by the name of Jayson Blair did the exact same thing. I just never had any idea something like this would happen to me. He told me that he was doing a general article about the community of AO through my eyes. Instead, a pack of lies gets slammed on the world's largest newspaper about me. The entire focus of the article was misrepresented.
The writer, Seth Schiesel is a reporter for the NY Times and his ingame character is named "Amis", a high level Omni MP. The article was so vicious and untrue at some points that it seems to have been written with malice in mind.
I'm so humiliated at some of the things said in that article. it shocks and amazes me how someone can so callously and deliberately say such untruths. I'm painted as a socially inept reject that never leaves his home, which is the opposite of who I really am.
It's one thing to flame someone ingame, but this goes way beyond that and extends into my personal life.....worst of all, 80% of what he says is an outright lie. The other 20% is an exaggeration or was taken out of context.
While it may not seem bad to many of you, if you knew me in real life, you'd know why I was so upset right now.
Thanks alot Amis (his ingame name). Never figured to be stabbed in back like this.
I used to work telephone technical support, and I know from experience that it is EXTREMELY difficult to troubleshoot problems over the phone. It's both dificult and frustrating.
I've grown out of the telephone tech support many years ago and now I'm an occasional user of it. I tell you there is nothing that compounds the frustration and anger of having to troubleshoot over the phone than having a language barrier.
I can't tell you the number of times that I've gotten someone who speaks broken english, or whose english skills are barely adequate - and I wind up "talking too fast" for them to understand. This is not to mention the cultural differences.
Companies like IBM and the like will soon find that customers will start avoiding their products & their company in general because their tech support is considered "Rude" or just plain difficult to understand / talk to.
Getting cheaper labor does not mean that you'll ever be able to match the quality of work/support you can get from another Red Blooded [North] American.
"We've bought up all the good companies and stifled all other innovation; we're screwed unless we can come up with something original on our own!" -- "And no, buying Red Hat isn't an option!"
I teach Boy Scouts here in the Twin Cities. I use Geocaching to help them earn their orinteering merit badge.
Rather than have me hide something, I just have them map out the Geocache coordinates on a paper map and find it themselves using a map & compass. Then I let them use the GPS so they can have exposure to guiding themselves with modern technology. To which they inevitably ask: "Did you have to actually find your way using a Map & Compass?" and comments like: "Using a paper map SUCKS!"
Can you think of anything more terrifying than a bunch of Boy Scouts hiking through a State Park?!
Heck, we always leave a trail cleaner than we found it. It's called "Leave No Trace", its one of the first things we teach our Scouts.
We pay for the parks with our tax dollars, why not let us use them as we see fit if we're not destroying anything.
Morons.
We all know that if it ever gets to the govenors desk, he'll sign it.
He'll sign anything, no matter how bad it is.
Of course the RIAA numbers are going to be down where Eastman Kodak's are, people are turning to digital cameras and leaving film cameras behind in droves.
This doesn't mean that the RIAA isn't full of crap, they are. I just think they chose a poor example to compare them to.
There's an interesting Microsoft twist to the recent Sapphire Worm, aka SQL Slammer. During the days of the attack, Microsoft tried to deflect any blame by claiming that they issued a patch for the vulnerability six months previously, and that the only affected companies were the ones who didn't keep their patches up to date. A couple of days later, news leaked that Microsoft's own network was hit pretty badly by the worm because they didn't patch their own network.
The idea that we can achieve network security by finding and patching vulnerabilities in the field is fatally flawed. I've been saying this for a couple of years now. I don't blame Microsoft sysadmins for not having their patches up to date -- no one does -- but I don't like the hypocrisy out of the company. The answer lies in software programmers creating secure code.
The SQL Slammer worm also reopened the full disclosure debate. Microsoft announced the vulnerability in July 2002, at the same time they released the patch. A few days later, David Litchfield published exploit code that demonstrated how the vulnerability could be used to break into systems. January's SQL Slammer worm used that exact code. Some point to that and say that Litchfield should not have released the code, while others correctly say that the code wasn't hard to write, and that the worm author could have easily written it himself.
An amusing, but irrelevent, incident: A week after the worm, I was invited to speak about it live on CNN. The program was eventually preempted by the Columbia tragedy, but not before the CNN producers invited Microsoft to appear on the segment with me. Microsoft's spokesman -- I don't know who -- said that the company was unwilling to appear on CNN with me. They were willing to appear before me, they were willing to appear after me, but they were not willing to appear with me.
Whatever...
Half this nation can't count past 20 with their zipper up, and this guy expects us to count back change with 18 cent coins?
Counting by 5's, 10's or 25's is easy. The simplicity of accurately counting back the change is more important than the number of coins involved in the transaction.
15. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."
14. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time management course you sent me to."
13. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper"
12. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"
11. "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"
10. "I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance"
9. "Actually I'm doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) I learned it at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend.
8. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work related stress."
7. "Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."
6. "The coffee machine is broken...."
5. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."
4. "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!"
3. "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!"
2. "I wasn't sleeping, I was trying to pick up contact lens without hands."
And the #1 Thing to Say If You Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk is...
1. "Amen..."