Should we always keep out of other people's countries? When we hear of terrible atrocities being committed by armed forces against innocent people?
I am in no way suggesting that this was all, some or any of the reason for the current incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan but to say that we should never ever get involved in other countries' affair strikes me as an equally bad idea.
"I'm OK, let them look after themselves" is a bad reason to avoid conflicts. Wishing to extend your power base, improve your access to resources, go down in history as a great leader, these are all bad reasons to seek conflict. But now and then, when all other options are gone, "War is diplomacy by other means".
It sounds like you had a useful test then - if an attacker was able to take down your system for a week by something as trivial as locking accounts out then your system had serious weaknesses. It should have been pretty straight forward to re-enable the accounts and then identify what system had locked them out and disable connections from that system.
Just because the attacks were simple doesn't mean that they didn't give you useful information about your system - if a security test causes *anything* to break/crash/fall over then that's useful information telling you that someone else could do the same if they wanted to.
I'm not surprised you're posting anonymously - if I had to administer a system that had a weakness like this then I wouldn't want to tell people about it either.
The modem doesn't need any fancy drivers to work - there is a windows-only app to allow you to see the signal strength but you don't *need* that.
The whole thing works very well inside the Triangle - driving along and checking the webcams for traffic ahead is particularly amusing (obviously the passenger checks the webcams).
Visited a friend outside Raleigh a year ago who has this and was very jealous - wish someone'd release something like it on my side of the pond.
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Should we always keep out of other people's countries? When we hear of terrible atrocities being committed by armed forces against innocent people?
I am in no way suggesting that this was all, some or any of the reason for the current incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan but to say that we should never ever get involved in other countries' affair strikes me as an equally bad idea.
"I'm OK, let them look after themselves" is a bad reason to avoid conflicts. Wishing to extend your power base, improve your access to resources, go down in history as a great leader, these are all bad reasons to seek conflict. But now and then, when all other options are gone, "War is diplomacy by other means".
It sounds like you had a useful test then - if an attacker was able to take down your system for a week by something as trivial as locking accounts out then your system had serious weaknesses. It should have been pretty straight forward to re-enable the accounts and then identify what system had locked them out and disable connections from that system.
Just because the attacks were simple doesn't mean that they didn't give you useful information about your system - if a security test causes *anything* to break/crash/fall over then that's useful information telling you that someone else could do the same if they wanted to.
I'm not surprised you're posting anonymously - if I had to administer a system that had a weakness like this then I wouldn't want to tell people about it either.
The modem doesn't need any fancy drivers to work - there is a windows-only app to allow you to see the signal strength but you don't *need* that.
The whole thing works very well inside the Triangle - driving along and checking the webcams for traffic ahead is particularly amusing (obviously the passenger checks the webcams).
Visited a friend outside Raleigh a year ago who has this and was very jealous - wish someone'd release something like it on my side of the pond.