There is a market in it's infancy, growing as businesses start switching to Linux, because quite a few businesses are only buying laptops these days (at least, this was the case for my last two jobs).
You guys don't get it...the denial of service is precisely that the competitor's web site is ranked lower than evil competitor in a Google search. A slow attack to be sure, but never the less a real attack.
Everyone needs to take a step back and think about what WAP is...
A connection to an access point protected by WAP does not protect you from an evil access point administrator. It is the evil access point administrator that provided your WAP authentication. After you are authenticated and connected, all your data passes through the evil admin's access point UNENCRYPTED. As they say, all your data are belong to evil admin after that...
It's business. Cast your vote for or against their policy with your dollars (need a grass roots movement for this kind of thing to be successful). Best move? Open source gaimg alternative.
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I agree with you in principle, however, it's going to be hard to convince a court that your cat stepped on the "I agree" button 478 times last month...
Companies that use EULAs must make sure they are "reasonable."
Examples of typical EULA language (paraphrased):
"We can install anything we like on your computer"
"We don't guarantee the program will even run, much less do what we said it will do."
"We are not liable for anything, even if our software makes your company's profits implode"
"We can collect any data we want and sell it for a profit"
"We will charge you to fix any problem found in our software, assuming we choose to fix the problem."
Actually, ANY access point is risky unless you run it yourself (after all, it's a well known fact that all sys admins are voyeurs of the worse sort)
Seriously, anytime there is a man-in-the-middle, you have the potential of a man-in-the-middle attack. Imagine if you will a surveillance of an individual suspected of being involved in some nefarious political scheme. The individual is known to frequent his local Starbucks in the morning to have a cup of coffee and check his email, stocks, personal chat rooms, etc. A wiretap could watch his every move and he would never know.
Bottom line, never forget there is NO privacy on the unencrypted internet.
Ah, but the access point is first man in, meaning that you have to both do a WEP connection to the access point AND an SSL connection to every place you go to on the internet in order to defeat the man-in-the-middle for an evil wireless access point...
And since MOST internet access is not protected by an SSL session (and the user rarely has control over that), the risk is very real.
The US strongarming the rest of the world banks on it's economic influence to get everyone to cave in eventually. However, things are changing and the rise of Asian consumer markets not dominated by US businesses will likely seriously reduce the US's ability to control the business world. We may even see the US's level of market influence shift to China or India's control...now wouldn't that be interesting...
Hmmm...if a malicious program adds the tag to links served by a compromised html server, you could have an interesting and different sort of denial of service attack, although it would be slow to take effect.
Worse...how about if a competitor hacks a site and adds the tag to their competition's links...that would let the evil competitor up their Google page rank in a reverse sort of way...
For example, many stock transactions are decided by a rudimentary form of AI these days.
Pretty soon we'll have a permanent virtual world where systems run and make decisions constantly, affecting the real world as concretely as any decision made by a human manager.
Actually...it's best for the world that he speaks his mind. It shows free speech in operation, and lets the university know they need to get a new president. A win-win situation for us all.
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There is a market in it's infancy, growing as businesses start switching to Linux, because quite a few businesses are only buying laptops these days (at least, this was the case for my last two jobs).
You guys don't get it...the denial of service is precisely that the competitor's web site is ranked lower than evil competitor in a Google search. A slow attack to be sure, but never the less a real attack.
A connection to an access point protected by WAP does not protect you from an evil access point administrator. It is the evil access point administrator that provided your WAP authentication. After you are authenticated and connected, all your data passes through the evil admin's access point UNENCRYPTED. As they say, all your data are belong to evil admin after that...
Damn them evil admins...
It's business. Cast your vote for or against their policy with your dollars (need a grass roots movement for this kind of thing to be successful). Best move? Open source gaimg alternative.
I agree with you in principle, however, it's going to be hard to convince a court that your cat stepped on the "I agree" button 478 times last month...
Examples of typical EULA language (paraphrased):
"We can install anything we like on your computer"
"We don't guarantee the program will even run, much less do what we said it will do."
"We are not liable for anything, even if our software makes your company's profits implode"
"We can collect any data we want and sell it for a profit"
"We will charge you to fix any problem found in our software, assuming we choose to fix the problem."
Sound's reasonable to me...
Seriously, anytime there is a man-in-the-middle, you have the potential of a man-in-the-middle attack. Imagine if you will a surveillance of an individual suspected of being involved in some nefarious political scheme. The individual is known to frequent his local Starbucks in the morning to have a cup of coffee and check his email, stocks, personal chat rooms, etc. A wiretap could watch his every move and he would never know.
Bottom line, never forget there is NO privacy on the unencrypted internet.
Ah, but the access point is first man in, meaning that you have to both do a WEP connection to the access point AND an SSL connection to every place you go to on the internet in order to defeat the man-in-the-middle for an evil wireless access point... And since MOST internet access is not protected by an SSL session (and the user rarely has control over that), the risk is very real.
It would have to be because of a plan for them to cooperate together, I would guess.
The US strongarming the rest of the world banks on it's economic influence to get everyone to cave in eventually. However, things are changing and the rise of Asian consumer markets not dominated by US businesses will likely seriously reduce the US's ability to control the business world. We may even see the US's level of market influence shift to China or India's control...now wouldn't that be interesting...
That's why we need to add more planets to our living spaces.
A poll on Slashdot that actually means something? Not in this universe...
Hmmm...if a malicious program adds the tag to links served by a compromised html server, you could have an interesting and different sort of denial of service attack, although it would be slow to take effect.
Worse...how about if a competitor hacks a site and adds the tag to their competition's links...that would let the evil competitor up their Google page rank in a reverse sort of way...
It's nice to see Google, MSN, and Yahoo cooperating on this effort.
So, how are they going to keep ET from patching in to the internet for free? Did they think of that? Eh?
Gonna need a hell of a long patch cable...
For example, many stock transactions are decided by a rudimentary form of AI these days.
Pretty soon we'll have a permanent virtual world where systems run and make decisions constantly, affecting the real world as concretely as any decision made by a human manager.
There are female slashdot members?
Generally, you are correct...
Actually...it's best for the world that he speaks his mind. It shows free speech in operation, and lets the university know they need to get a new president. A win-win situation for us all.
You can be successful and an idiot all at the same time.
That reminds me...how many apples does it take to make applesauce?...
Wife: "Honey, you know women are bad at math..."
Forget the 4 mbits down/384 kbits up...give me 2 meg down and 2 meg up any day...