But why? the added overhead and trouble involved in WEP and no-broadcast SSID would make a casual user think that it's "safe" and therefore would be more likely to transmit private data over the network than having it wide-open will.
When a user signs on, all they have to do is install a card, and they're up. They understand that snoopers are out there, and that they will try to swipe their data.
Do you really think that WEP would add anything at all? c'mon, really?
Regarding Godel, he was a mathmatician who showed how any formal system must be either incomplete or inconsistent. Thus the A and Not-A comment. My assertion is that you can either secure the wireless portion or not. "securing" the wireless portion makes users think that they're getting something, which is not the case.
It's funny - I built my WISP out of Linksys Wireless-G products largely because of cost, and I've been fairly satisfied. HOWEVER: there are two fundamental features missing:
1) nothing acts like a repeater (grrrr)
2) I want an AP/Bridge combo, where it can do both at the same time! (I guess that's really a lot like the first request, but dammit, it's needed!)
Of course, just after I purchased everything, they came out with a WET54...
it's funny - there are two approaches to Wireless:
1) try to create wired-equivalent security, with WEP, et. al.
This usually results in "security" which can be cracked by a persistent teenager in a car in under about 20 minutes.
2) leave everything "open" and make sure that all security is host/application based. Treat the network as "untrusted"
Personally, this is where I stand: I think that it works better, and people don't get any unrealistic impressions about the security of their connections.
So I run a WISP which is built upon the latter model, in Washington DC. If someone wardrives and snoops some internet for an hour, fine! pleas don't attack the network itself, but feel free to surf the web:)
Take a look at some of the work by Richard Feynmann and Freeman Dyson - the two of them discuss(ed) biology-based computation at great length, and although they were not completely encumbered by modern methods and capabilities, their insights into the theory are pretty valuable. In addition, check out Douglas Hofstadter - I believe that _Metamagical Themas_ had an article or two about this.
There are immense opportunities for people with a little money and a good idea: the problem comes when you have people with a lot of money and no ideas (Titanic)...
Well, it was an award from the defendant, not from the US taxpayers, so unless you're going to argue that the guy who stole sex.com was going to use his ill-gotten-gains to fight terror, slavery, bad breath, and the rest of the social ills you mention, I don't see how the rant is relevant.
I'm not a fan of litigation, but I'm also not a fan of theft.
David Barak
actually, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a good example - it's by Joan Baez, not Led Zepplin. She recorded it in 1962, even though most people consider it a Zep song from Led Zepplin I (1969). So permission and royalties were obtained, as they always should be...
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But why? the added overhead and trouble involved in WEP and no-broadcast SSID would make a casual user think that it's "safe" and therefore would be more likely to transmit private data over the network than having it wide-open will.
When a user signs on, all they have to do is install a card, and they're up. They understand that snoopers are out there, and that they will try to swipe their data.
Do you really think that WEP would add anything at all? c'mon, really?
Regarding Godel, he was a mathmatician who showed how any formal system must be either incomplete or inconsistent. Thus the A and Not-A comment. My assertion is that you can either secure the wireless portion or not. "securing" the wireless portion makes users think that they're getting something, which is not the case.
-David Barak
It's funny - I built my WISP out of Linksys Wireless-G products largely because of cost, and I've been fairly satisfied. HOWEVER: there are two fundamental features missing:
1) nothing acts like a repeater (grrrr)
2) I want an AP/Bridge combo, where it can do both at the same time! (I guess that's really a lot like the first request, but dammit, it's needed!)
Of course, just after I purchased everything, they came out with a WET54...
-David Barak
I'm not sure that I understand: are you saying that I should both run WEP etc and not run WEP?
While I love the Godelian implications, I have not reached the state of enlightenment such that I can accept A and not-A together.
-David Barak
it's funny - there are two approaches to Wireless:
:)
1) try to create wired-equivalent security, with WEP, et. al.
This usually results in "security" which can be cracked by a persistent teenager in a car in under about 20 minutes.
2) leave everything "open" and make sure that all security is host/application based. Treat the network as "untrusted"
Personally, this is where I stand: I think that it works better, and people don't get any unrealistic impressions about the security of their connections.
So I run a WISP which is built upon the latter model, in Washington DC. If someone wardrives and snoops some internet for an hour, fine! pleas don't attack the network itself, but feel free to surf the web
-David Barak
Take a look at some of the work by Richard Feynmann and Freeman Dyson - the two of them discuss(ed) biology-based computation at great length, and although they were not completely encumbered by modern methods and capabilities, their insights into the theory are pretty valuable. In addition, check out Douglas Hofstadter - I believe that _Metamagical Themas_ had an article or two about this.
-David Barak
Wasn't "Clerks" made for $22K?
There are immense opportunities for people with a little money and a good idea: the problem comes when you have people with a lot of money and no ideas (Titanic)...
-David Barak
well, If you're going for old/extinct, how about modding a colecovision? or perhaps a TI99/4A?
-David Barak
LOLOLOLOL :)
it took me a minute, but it was worth it
-David Barak
I wonder how long it will be until we see "mechanized infantry" ala R. Heinlein's Starship Troopers...
David Barak
I've got a whole bunch of WorldCom stock to add to the pot, if we're talking about bankrupt ideas and ethics...
-David Barak
it's funny though - I can't think of a game which equals good old MULE in terms of playability and enjoyment. I miss the c64 games - they rocked.
I know, I can get emulators (although c64 on OS X is sorely lacking), but I'd like to see someone re-write THAT game for today...
-David Barak
Well, it was an award from the defendant, not from the US taxpayers, so unless you're going to argue that the guy who stole sex.com was going to use his ill-gotten-gains to fight terror, slavery, bad breath, and the rest of the social ills you mention, I don't see how the rant is relevant. I'm not a fan of litigation, but I'm also not a fan of theft. David Barak
actually, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a good example - it's by Joan Baez, not Led Zepplin. She recorded it in 1962, even though most people consider it a Zep song from Led Zepplin I (1969).
So permission and royalties were obtained, as they always should be...
David Barak
Fully RFC 1925 Compliant