"ISPs don't want people using very effective filters," he said. "They want people to be downloading as much information as possible - that's how they make their money."
Sounds a bit like micro$oft: we 'll tell you what you get at what price.
The above computer program(s) is/are being made available for copying,
through downloading, at the above location without authorization from the
copyright owner(s).
Corinna Beck
Business Software Alliance
1150 18th St NW Suite 700
Washington,DC 20036
EOF
Sure this isn't a hoax? I can't imagine them being that stupid in Washington.
CANNES, France -- 3GSM Congress -- There's a big problem with
connecting public wireless LAN access points to GSM/GPRS cellular networks,
according to SIM card vendor SchulmbergerSema. 802.11b hotspots
provide hackers with an easy way to grab user information from the wide-area
network itself, the company tells Unstrung.
The heart of the problem is that when the GSM standard was being defined back
in the late 80s, no one imagined that a hacker could set up his own wireless
network to gain access to an operator's network and the user data therein.
Therefore, GSM networks only authenticate the details held on the SIM card in a
user's device before starting a session on the network. The user's device
doesn't check the credentials of the network it is attempting to
access.
This was fine before the advent of wireless LAN. But now for a minimal outlay
anyone can own a wireless network.
At the same time, vendors and operators are starting to use SIM card-based
authentication front-end systems for public wireless LAN networks, which allow
them to link the user back to the home location register (HLR) database on the
GSM network and thus manage and bill a subscriber on the WLAN network in the
same way as they would on the wide-area network.
This all adds up to networks that could be vulnerable to hacker attacks,
according to Schlumberger.
Hackers can set up "rogue" hotspots that users will access in the belief they
are on the genuine public wireless LAN network. Once users are on the fake
network, it is easy for the hacker to access data held on the device via the
802.11 connection (see WLAN: The Four S's and this paper for more on the insecurity of wireless LAN).
Hackers can then break into the SIM software on the user's device and get the
codes held there. They can then use that information to fool the GSM
authentication system and thus gain access to the network.
Schlumberger say that this won't be a problem once UMTS networks are
available, because the 3G standard ensures what's known as "mutual
authentication" -- the network authenticates a user device, and the device
confirms that it is actually on a valid network before the session can
proceed.
However, for public wireless LAN implementations that will connect to backend
systems on GSM and GPRS networks, Schlumberger has developed a SIM card-based
system (surprise!) that enables mutual authentication between the device
and networks that are accessed via the gateway of public wireless LAN hotspots.
The mutual authentication takes place via algorithms on the card itself rather
than in SIM card software on the device.
Schlumberger is showing a system at the 3GSM congress that uses a separate
smartcard and reader plugged into a WLAN-enabled laptop. However, the firm says
that the smartcard and radio could be integrated into one PCMCIA card, much in
the way that Nokia
Corp. (NYSE: NOK - message board) has done.
Orange
France is currently testing Schlumberger's security system.
Schlumberger expects that operators will start to roll it out before the end of
this year.
One of the fundamental rules of current computer design is that there is nothing one processor can do that another cannot, given enough time. Where 64 bit processors have an advantage is in the amount of memory they can directly address - 32-bit processors stop at 4GB, while 64-bit processors have a theoretical limit of more than one trillion terabytes. A 64-bit processor can work on very large data sets very efficiently, at least in theory. However, modern 32 bit processors can now work on multiple 32-bit instructions simultaneously - or 32-bit instructions with large amounts of data - as well as address more than their basic 4GB memory limit so the architectural lines are blurred.
Here is a chart of what vendors think is important when choosing an embedded OS.
Linux already satisfies the four most popular criteria: Real Time capabilities, royalty free licensing, it runs on a variety of CPUs and it provides access to source code.
Linux on desktop is like windows on server. It just won't work. As long as one can not run microsoft, adobe AND macromedia products on it, it is doomed to stay a server os, with the exception of a few slashdotters who believe anything is possible. And I even think it's not a decent server, as a matter of fact freeBSD performs much better in network load and uptime, it just ain't got the buzz linux has.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you really think the world would let him get away with something like that, or the American people?
I don't think so, no..
It's also to cover his fraud, bad politics, and gain popularity.
Here are some high-res screenshots taken from BSD:
on gnome
on kde
BSD is truly free and open.
"ISPs don't want people using very effective filters," he said. "They want people to be downloading as much information as possible - that's how they make their money."
Sounds a bit like micro$oft: we 'll tell you what you get at what price.
What was located as infringing content:
/mandrake_current/SRPMS/OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk. src.rpm /mandrake_current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.or g-libs-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm
Filename:
(199,643kb)
Filename:
(35,444kb)
The above computer program(s) is/are being made available for copying,
through downloading, at the above location without authorization from the
copyright owner(s).
Corinna Beck
Business Software Alliance
1150 18th St NW Suite 700
Washington,DC 20036
EOF
Sure this isn't a hoax? I can't imagine them being that stupid in Washington.
02.21.03
CANNES, France -- 3GSM Congress -- There's a big problem with connecting public wireless LAN access points to GSM/GPRS cellular networks, according to SIM card vendor SchulmbergerSema. 802.11b hotspots provide hackers with an easy way to grab user information from the wide-area network itself, the company tells Unstrung.
The heart of the problem is that when the GSM standard was being defined back in the late 80s, no one imagined that a hacker could set up his own wireless network to gain access to an operator's network and the user data therein. Therefore, GSM networks only authenticate the details held on the SIM card in a user's device before starting a session on the network. The user's device doesn't check the credentials of the network it is attempting to access.
This was fine before the advent of wireless LAN. But now for a minimal outlay anyone can own a wireless network.
At the same time, vendors and operators are starting to use SIM card-based authentication front-end systems for public wireless LAN networks, which allow them to link the user back to the home location register (HLR) database on the GSM network and thus manage and bill a subscriber on the WLAN network in the same way as they would on the wide-area network.
This all adds up to networks that could be vulnerable to hacker attacks, according to Schlumberger.
Hackers can set up "rogue" hotspots that users will access in the belief they are on the genuine public wireless LAN network. Once users are on the fake network, it is easy for the hacker to access data held on the device via the 802.11 connection (see WLAN: The Four S's and this paper for more on the insecurity of wireless LAN). Hackers can then break into the SIM software on the user's device and get the codes held there. They can then use that information to fool the GSM authentication system and thus gain access to the network.
Schlumberger say that this won't be a problem once UMTS networks are available, because the 3G standard ensures what's known as "mutual authentication" -- the network authenticates a user device, and the device confirms that it is actually on a valid network before the session can proceed.
However, for public wireless LAN implementations that will connect to backend systems on GSM and GPRS networks, Schlumberger has developed a SIM card-based system (surprise!) that enables mutual authentication between the device and networks that are accessed via the gateway of public wireless LAN hotspots. The mutual authentication takes place via algorithms on the card itself rather than in SIM card software on the device.
Schlumberger is showing a system at the 3GSM congress that uses a separate smartcard and reader plugged into a WLAN-enabled laptop. However, the firm says that the smartcard and radio could be integrated into one PCMCIA card, much in the way that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK - message board) has done.
Orange France is currently testing Schlumberger's security system. Schlumberger expects that operators will start to roll it out before the end of this year.
-- Dan Jones, Senior Editor, Unstrung
http://www.unstrung.com
One of the fundamental rules of current computer design is that there is nothing one processor can do that another cannot, given enough time. Where 64 bit processors have an advantage is in the amount of memory they can directly address - 32-bit processors stop at 4GB, while 64-bit processors have a theoretical limit of more than one trillion terabytes. A 64-bit processor can work on very large data sets very efficiently, at least in theory. However, modern 32 bit processors can now work on multiple 32-bit instructions simultaneously - or 32-bit instructions with large amounts of data - as well as address more than their basic 4GB memory limit so the architectural lines are blurred.
Here is a chart of what vendors think is important when choosing an embedded OS.
Linux already satisfies the four most popular criteria: Real Time capabilities, royalty free licensing, it runs on a variety of CPUs and it provides access to source code.
No wonder Motorola choose for the linux solution.
already have a book.
The Linux kernel you can download from here, the Red Hat distrubution here.
At least sun's works on different platforms, micro$ofts just ... sucks.
Linux on desktop is like windows on server. It just won't work. As long as one can not run microsoft, adobe AND macromedia products on it, it is doomed to stay a server os, with the exception of a few slashdotters who believe anything is possible. And I even think it's not a decent server, as a matter of fact freeBSD performs much better in network load and uptime, it just ain't got the buzz linux has.