Any spyware designed sufficiently to track all student movements would be on the proxy server that all 'net traffic must be routed through. The only attack for that is to run everything through an SSH tunnel, and that can be flagged pretty easy.
As a car enthusiast, you probably perform more maintenance on your vehicles than the regular user is apt to. Fords (and american cars in general, as well as japanese) are pretty sensitive to how well you adhere to a maintenance schedule. They won't break down, mind you, but they lose a lot of life if you let 'em go, say, a couple thousand miles past an oil change.
Mind you, I'm spoiled. Volkswagens are pretty damned forgiving. Mine, at one desperate point, even ran with half its spark plugs missing (don't ask), and another time ran about five miles (very slowly; I was trying to get it home so I could fix the stone-caused pan leak without siezing the engine) without oil. I sold it a few years ago, and while its chassis is being held together by bumper stickers, it's still rolling around town.
Wait, no. Since A==0, it's closest tenth would be 0, so it's the base 26 equivalent of '900'. They're obviously going to use that linux cluster as a PBX for a massive phone sex scam.
Hey, look at that. It's exactly what HTML5 currently says.
Now, I don't mind wrangling users' systems to determine what is the best format to put stuff in; that's how we get a market for these things, how we keep them technically competitive, and the web developers (not the standards organizations) are the best people for the job here (we're used to it, and we're good at it).
Evolution is a double-edged concept. Variation and survival are the keys here.
When very large populations survive, the population becomes more varied, due to low-level radiation. This is imperceptible and random.
Survival, of course, implies non-survivors. Stillborn children, abortion, murder, suicide and fatal diseases still plague us.
We won't see *drastic* change until there's some huge disaster, but those who *do* survive a huge disaster will be best suited among the wide variation to do so.
It's how "Punctuated equilibrium" works. There's gamete change at increasing rates with population, and the variations are 'selected' when there's a sharp reduction in population.
Actually, I was referring to the fact that TinyXP is *so* reduced, that some things simply don't work for lack of libraries. I mean, TXP is awesome, and all, but I'd like to be able to sync my PDA, for example.
I don't know. I'm sure MS is aware of the hack of their OS called 'TinyXP' (which would run quite comfortably in a 1G machine, and perky-fast, too). I'm sure it's a piece of piss for them to pore over the convert documentation and ensure that things needed for compatibility and their marketing strategy are included and keep it under that 512M mark. I'm sure they could quite successfully market it as Windows(tm) Lite(r) for $50 a pop without infringing on their Vista business (since they would necessarily run on two wholly different classes of systems).
I'm also sure that Microsoft doesn't give a flying fuck.
The faraday cage is to isolate the target frequency and modulation with the same model keyboard to calibrate your software (and possibly your antenna). You then take the appropriately optimized system into the room *next* to your target. The problem with an optical sniff is that the person may sniff you back and subsequently retaliate.
.m4p is Apple's own thing, but.m4a and.m4v are the accepted extensions for raw audio and video streams respectively. Dunno if they're in the spec, but de facto standards usually aren't.
Yeah, but you have to build a jig and read the tracks one at a time. You can do better with the smaller readers from a cassette 4-track (you have to remodulate in hardware to combine the data into a single software-decodable stream - a couple kHz is fine for normal-speed swiping), but those things are just too nifty to destroy.
True enough, but it makes me wonder about how tight the encryption is on other brands of keyboard. I use a Logitech wireless myself, and I know a guy at work that uses one of those tiny Apple wireless boards. It also makes me wonder about those wireless security input panels they use to enter the building alarm shut-off codes where I work. If I can show a successful exploit, maybe I can push a little reform.
Feh. A simple optical sniff? Where's the l33tness in that?
Now, an optical sniff from a distance - for example, mounting a chip ccd inside and feeding it to a gumstix, both within the victim's monitor and powered thereby, would be an impressive optical sniffing hack.
Not exactly. You could employ a homebrew dish antenna from a room or two away, much like using a remote directional mic. Hell, since radio works better through walls than sound, you don't even need to be visible to the victim.
Relax, man. Dude's being an asshat. You're right; it's perfectly logical to assume the use of an integrated USB/PCI/generic radio-to-PCM device for intercepting a radio signal - with one little exception that can be rationalized away as hardware hacking:
Your basic radio-to-PCM device doesn't have a sufficiently flexible tuner to reach below the 85MHz FM lower limit into the depths of 27MHz. An analog FM tuner can be easily hacked to do this, but you'd basically have to rip out the capacitor DAC that a fully digital device would have.
Well, because the less you share information with the apparently ignorant, the more ignorant society at large is.
If I ask a question, even if it's a dumb one, I desire an answer. As such, I respond to questions I have the answers to. Be the change you want to see in the world, and all.
"Why did they need a sound card to crack a wireless keyboard?"
Line in. Demodulate the 27MHz EM in hardware, and the resulting output is a simple electrical signal. Assuming that a keyboard doesn't need a terrible lot of bandwidth, it's unlikely that the pulse frequency is terribly high (lower max frequency DSPs are cheaper than higher ones), so the 96kHz max capture off a sound card should be more than enough. Even if it isn't, though, there are fourier techniques to detect aliasing and get a higher frequency signal, assuming that there's nothing else on the 27MHz band (which you can ensure by enclosing the experiment in a Faraday cage).
True enough. mpeg-4's audio codec, more commonly known as AAC, usually comes in files with the m4p or m4a extension. MP4 is generally reserved for a file representing mpeg4-video and mpeg4-audio enclosed in an mpeg4 program stream (enveloped in an enigma (wrapped in a burrito)).
"Hydrogen beats the crap out of batteries as far as energy storage"
That really depends on the drivetrain involved. For example, Natural Gas ICE's, like those used in city busses, top out at 30% Carnot (pretty damned low). Our best HFC electric drivetrain will put out 35% Ideal (higher than 35% Carnot) at high load, but the number of cells needed to effect that kind of output are high (heavier 'engine'). Include the 80% efficiency from generation, and the 25% efficiency hit for making the hydrogen liquid, and you end up with an overall efficiency of around 20% Ideal (still higher than 30% Carnot at ICE temperatures - which is around 6.3% Ideal efficiency).
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Any spyware designed sufficiently to track all student movements would be on the proxy server that all 'net traffic must be routed through. The only attack for that is to run everything through an SSH tunnel, and that can be flagged pretty easy.
As a car enthusiast, you probably perform more maintenance on your vehicles than the regular user is apt to. Fords (and american cars in general, as well as japanese) are pretty sensitive to how well you adhere to a maintenance schedule. They won't break down, mind you, but they lose a lot of life if you let 'em go, say, a couple thousand miles past an oil change.
Mind you, I'm spoiled. Volkswagens are pretty damned forgiving. Mine, at one desperate point, even ran with half its spark plugs missing (don't ask), and another time ran about five miles (very slowly; I was trying to get it home so I could fix the stone-caused pan leak without siezing the engine) without oil. I sold it a few years ago, and while its chassis is being held together by bumper stickers, it's still rolling around town.
Wait, no. Since A==0, it's closest tenth would be 0, so it's the base 26 equivalent of '900'. They're obviously going to use that linux cluster as a PBX for a massive phone sex scam.
Hey, look at that. It's exactly what HTML5 currently says.
Now, I don't mind wrangling users' systems to determine what is the best format to put stuff in; that's how we get a market for these things, how we keep them technically competitive, and the web developers (not the standards organizations) are the best people for the job here (we're used to it, and we're good at it).
How about "Must have hooks to access your system's codec/container stack, and support for all fully open formats is suggested."?
Evolution is a double-edged concept. Variation and survival are the keys here.
When very large populations survive, the population becomes more varied, due to low-level radiation. This is imperceptible and random.
Survival, of course, implies non-survivors. Stillborn children, abortion, murder, suicide and fatal diseases still plague us.
We won't see *drastic* change until there's some huge disaster, but those who *do* survive a huge disaster will be best suited among the wide variation to do so.
It's how "Punctuated equilibrium" works. There's gamete change at increasing rates with population, and the variations are 'selected' when there's a sharp reduction in population.
Ask any dog breeder.
Actually, I was referring to the fact that TinyXP is *so* reduced, that some things simply don't work for lack of libraries. I mean, TXP is awesome, and all, but I'd like to be able to sync my PDA, for example.
I don't know. I'm sure MS is aware of the hack of their OS called 'TinyXP' (which would run quite comfortably in a 1G machine, and perky-fast, too). I'm sure it's a piece of piss for them to pore over the convert documentation and ensure that things needed for compatibility and their marketing strategy are included and keep it under that 512M mark. I'm sure they could quite successfully market it as Windows(tm) Lite(r) for $50 a pop without infringing on their Vista business (since they would necessarily run on two wholly different classes of systems).
I'm also sure that Microsoft doesn't give a flying fuck.
The faraday cage is to isolate the target frequency and modulation with the same model keyboard to calibrate your software (and possibly your antenna). You then take the appropriately optimized system into the room *next* to your target. The problem with an optical sniff is that the person may sniff you back and subsequently retaliate.
Danke for that. You've saved me the trouble of pre-googling an exploit before implementation.
.m4p is Apple's own thing, but .m4a and .m4v are the accepted extensions for raw audio and video streams respectively. Dunno if they're in the spec, but de facto standards usually aren't.
Yeah, but you have to build a jig and read the tracks one at a time. You can do better with the smaller readers from a cassette 4-track (you have to remodulate in hardware to combine the data into a single software-decodable stream - a couple kHz is fine for normal-speed swiping), but those things are just too nifty to destroy.
Your cliquism is kind of annoying. Piss off, AC.
True enough, but it makes me wonder about how tight the encryption is on other brands of keyboard. I use a Logitech wireless myself, and I know a guy at work that uses one of those tiny Apple wireless boards. It also makes me wonder about those wireless security input panels they use to enter the building alarm shut-off codes where I work. If I can show a successful exploit, maybe I can push a little reform.
Didn't you know? They don't teach radio in grade school anymore. Too busy with these computer things.
Radio's not the hobby it used to be, man. Lay off the young'in.
Easily enough that a dish-type antenna would still pick it up, I'll bet.
Feh. A simple optical sniff? Where's the l33tness in that?
Now, an optical sniff from a distance - for example, mounting a chip ccd inside and feeding it to a gumstix, both within the victim's monitor and powered thereby, would be an impressive optical sniffing hack.
Not exactly. You could employ a homebrew dish antenna from a room or two away, much like using a remote directional mic. Hell, since radio works better through walls than sound, you don't even need to be visible to the victim.
Old cassette deck reader + wire + soundcard + software = magnetic strip reader
Relax, man. Dude's being an asshat. You're right; it's perfectly logical to assume the use of an integrated USB/PCI/generic radio-to-PCM device for intercepting a radio signal - with one little exception that can be rationalized away as hardware hacking:
Your basic radio-to-PCM device doesn't have a sufficiently flexible tuner to reach below the 85MHz FM lower limit into the depths of 27MHz. An analog FM tuner can be easily hacked to do this, but you'd basically have to rip out the capacitor DAC that a fully digital device would have.
"Why not just let him continue in his ignorance?"
Well, because the less you share information with the apparently ignorant, the more ignorant society at large is.
If I ask a question, even if it's a dumb one, I desire an answer. As such, I respond to questions I have the answers to. Be the change you want to see in the world, and all.
"Why did they need a sound card to crack a wireless keyboard?"
Line in. Demodulate the 27MHz EM in hardware, and the resulting output is a simple electrical signal. Assuming that a keyboard doesn't need a terrible lot of bandwidth, it's unlikely that the pulse frequency is terribly high (lower max frequency DSPs are cheaper than higher ones), so the 96kHz max capture off a sound card should be more than enough. Even if it isn't, though, there are fourier techniques to detect aliasing and get a higher frequency signal, assuming that there's nothing else on the 27MHz band (which you can ensure by enclosing the experiment in a Faraday cage).
True enough. mpeg-4's audio codec, more commonly known as AAC, usually comes in files with the m4p or m4a extension. MP4 is generally reserved for a file representing mpeg4-video and mpeg4-audio enclosed in an mpeg4 program stream (enveloped in an enigma (wrapped in a burrito)).
That ain't shit. SHDSVCDVDBVDHStaMax+-RW has pixels smaller than the wavelength of a cosmic ray.
"Hydrogen beats the crap out of batteries as far as energy storage"
That really depends on the drivetrain involved. For example, Natural Gas ICE's, like those used in city busses, top out at 30% Carnot (pretty damned low). Our best HFC electric drivetrain will put out 35% Ideal (higher than 35% Carnot) at high load, but the number of cells needed to effect that kind of output are high (heavier 'engine'). Include the 80% efficiency from generation, and the 25% efficiency hit for making the hydrogen liquid, and you end up with an overall efficiency of around 20% Ideal (still higher than 30% Carnot at ICE temperatures - which is around 6.3% Ideal efficiency).