I read some article a few months ago about GPS jamming.. While the offical miliary GPS systems are supposedly a little more resistent to this type of easily-built jammer, the article said that many weapons used by the military in fact rely on civilian GPS transmissions, because the signals are stronger and easier to pick up.
So this would make many weapons (if the article I read is correct) pretty much ineffective if they actually do use the civilian GPS system.
Sorry I'm not more specific with details here- read the article a long time ago, maybe in NY Times...? Either that, or it was all some wild dream.
This is a really neat game theory/fallacy of composition problem, if I'm understanding this right...
So many comments on this article have been in the "I don't want to give away all this information for $5" vein.... but what if all these people are just saying that to get everybody else to pass on this opportunity? (and they're really going to be sneaking in to get their cut of the money...)
Maybe we're all part of some huge behavioral experiment... little slashdot lab rats tempted with cash...
"Did anyone else notice the OpenBSD banner ad at the bottom of the page?"
well since daemonnews.org seems to be solely devoted to BSD, it doesn't really strike me as particularly odd that the BSD folks would be buying ad space there, right?
Or is this publication entirely supported by the BSD crew?
Exactly- unless you're running some kind of great firewall on a win2k desktop, there would be no indications whatsoever if somebody has unauthorized access to your computer. Even the default event log settings won't usually leave any traces behind.
There are a million different trojan programs floating around these days, and they can end up on a win2k machine in a million different ways, it seems. So one has to be constantly vigilant about monitoring all processes.
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I read some article a few months ago about GPS jamming.. While the offical miliary GPS systems are supposedly a little more resistent to this type of easily-built jammer, the article said that many weapons used by the military in fact rely on civilian GPS transmissions, because the signals are stronger and easier to pick up. So this would make many weapons (if the article I read is correct) pretty much ineffective if they actually do use the civilian GPS system. Sorry I'm not more specific with details here- read the article a long time ago, maybe in NY Times...? Either that, or it was all some wild dream.
This is a really neat game theory/fallacy of composition problem, if I'm understanding this right... So many comments on this article have been in the "I don't want to give away all this information for $5" vein.... but what if all these people are just saying that to get everybody else to pass on this opportunity? (and they're really going to be sneaking in to get their cut of the money...) Maybe we're all part of some huge behavioral experiment... little slashdot lab rats tempted with cash...
nevermind, I'm dumb. really dumb. ignore that last post.
"Did anyone else notice the OpenBSD banner ad at the bottom of the page?"
well since daemonnews.org seems to be solely devoted to BSD, it doesn't really strike me as particularly odd that the BSD folks would be buying ad space there, right?
Or is this publication entirely supported by the BSD crew?
Exactly- unless you're running some kind of great firewall on a win2k desktop, there would be no indications whatsoever if somebody has unauthorized access to your computer. Even the default event log settings won't usually leave any traces behind.
There are a million different trojan programs floating around these days, and they can end up on a win2k machine in a million different ways, it seems. So one has to be constantly vigilant about monitoring all processes.