Did you so much as read the entire body of text? He never said that he was hacked, he said that there was some sort of DNS poisoning at his ISP's DNS servers.
"they could author some detection scheme that monitors for activity that is like a virus"
Hueuristics, anyone? (Yes, I horribly butchered the spelling of that word, I know.)
Granted, that sort of technology is somewhat prone to false alarms, but we have it. We just need to work on improving detection techniques and and reducing/eliminating false positives..
For those of you blindly following that link and getting 404's or similar, here's both the corrected version (Berkeley is spelled w/ 3 e's) and in link form - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html
Think about it. Most computers out there are running Windows, so what do the companies support? Of course, the majority of platforms. They figure, so what if the 'linux geeks' don't get what they want, they can just hack their own driver if they want to use this hardware.
That is to say, if they even think about other operating systems at all...
Since there is basically like no commercial support for this kind of hardware on linux, people like those that started the wlan-ng project must create drivers themselves.
Now, comparing to the companies or what have you that produce these cards, the hackers that write these drivers don't exactly have all the resources that the companies do with respect to with technical data on the hardware, testing, etc.
Also, as I've seen so many of the linux distros out there are different, that there may be compatibility issues of some sort or another when using the driver. As far as windows, however, there are only what, 5 or 6 versions that drivers have to be made and tested for...
Just as a matter of clarification, httptech -
2003-05-15 14:53:43 Fizzer Worm uninstalling itself (articles,tech) (accepted)
Over an hour and a half before you submitted yours.
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Did you so much as read the entire body of text?
He never said that he was hacked, he said that there was some sort of DNS poisoning at his ISP's DNS servers.
Dear Valued Taxpayer,
Your social security number was stolen by a hacker. He stole your identity. Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
California Internal Revenue Service
i tell my wife that's the reason for me buying games. helps keep my laparoscopic surgury skills honed.
However good your skills may be, I don't know how many people are going to want to be operated on by a doctor who spells the word 'surgury'.
For those too damn lazy to actually copy/paste the links:
n otes.html
c ounterfeit200kr.html
http://www.norgesbank.no/english/notes_and_coins/
and
http://www.norgesbank.no/english/notes_and_coins/
"they could author some detection scheme that monitors for activity that is like a virus"
Hueuristics, anyone? (Yes, I horribly butchered the spelling of that word, I know.)
Granted, that sort of technology is somewhat prone to false alarms, but we have it. We just need to work on improving detection techniques and and reducing/eliminating false positives..
For those of you blindly following that link and getting 404's or similar, here's both the corrected version (Berkeley is spelled w/ 3 e's) and in link form -
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html
Well think about it, with the NDA signed, there is no way (AFAIK) that they'd let the driver be open source.
Supply and demand, basically.
Think about it. Most computers out there are running Windows, so what do the companies support? Of course, the majority of platforms. They figure, so what if the 'linux geeks' don't get what they want, they can just hack their own driver if they want to use this hardware.
That is to say, if they even think about other operating systems at all...
Since there is basically like no commercial support for this kind of hardware on linux, people like those that started the wlan-ng project must create drivers themselves.
Now, comparing to the companies or what have you that produce these cards, the hackers that write these drivers don't exactly have all the resources that the companies do with respect to with technical data on the hardware, testing, etc.
Also, as I've seen so many of the linux distros out there are different, that there may be compatibility issues of some sort or another when using the driver. As far as windows, however, there are only what, 5 or 6 versions that drivers have to be made and tested for...
I dunno, just a thought or two.
Astronomical number of states, eh? What country do you live in?
Just as a matter of clarification, httptech - 2003-05-15 14:53:43 Fizzer Worm uninstalling itself (articles,tech) (accepted) Over an hour and a half before you submitted yours.