Anybody else reminded of C3PO's narration of the characters' story thus far to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi? It was probably his intention to mimic C3PO. This made me smile:)
resume, DamnSmallLinux, winsock fix, ad-aware, spybot, norton removal tool, geeksquad mri, screenshots of a nub trying to run pwdump2 on one of the lab computers I maintain via a batch file created and downloaded from his personal univ. website. Planning on putting some more of the sysinternal stuff on there too. "Pricelessware" haha.
... rather than just taking everything I hear from the internet (interpreted thanks to eff.org). Kudos to people like sheetrock, teilo, and others for doing the same. Im not going to bother reiterating some of their previous points regarding "backdooring our routers!". If you're confused... lookup "backdoor" and "wiretap" on some jargon files or something.
Ooooh theres some big telco words in there that I had to look up.
facilities-based isp: isp owns the switches and access servers.
Many isps are non-facilities based or hybrid based, meaning that they buy some access from other facilities-based isps, and have some equipment of their own. It only makes sense that the fcc would want access to the equipment through the people that actually own them.
More specifically the announcement mentioned that they would target the facilities based isps / voIP carriers that allow connection to pstn (public switched telephone network).
You guys have all seen those cop movies where they sneak into the bad guy's house and tap his phone. Well, if a bad guy is using voIP, you can hardly do that. (Well you can, because voIP's standard is not encrypted, although some like skype claim to). So rather than try to tap at the source, which could possibly be encrypted (as teilo said), they just tap it at the point at which it is just pstn traffic again. (Remember they were focusing on services that allowed communication to pstn from voip). So if bad guy A tries to do voIP to bad guy B whos just on pstn, then fbi can listen in, without knowing the location of bad guy B.
This leaves the idea of the bad guys just talking voIP to voIP with encryption. People say that the government can already sniff our traffic and see everything we do, so whats the point of this new legislation? Where are they sniffing from? As of now, I don't think its via these ISPs who are commercially owned with little to no regulation. So maybe this is the government just moving their pieces in to better position on the board.
Just my 2 cents.
thx for reminding me not to be a pushover in the IT field in the future. I know i will know my stuff, and know that my employers would be HELPLESS without me. I dont think one mans story of how he maybe couldnt hack it quite as well as he thought, should be a discouragement to a promising student like myself. If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Cheesy? Yes, but maybe its not the job, maybe its you. I know several IT people that have great control of their lives, improving the quality of them constantly, instead of withering away. I feel sorry for you, but maybe you should be more positive and tell people the mistakes u might have made, so as not to repeat them. thx.
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Anybody else reminded of C3PO's narration of the characters' story thus far to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi? It was probably his intention to mimic C3PO. This made me smile :)
resume, DamnSmallLinux, winsock fix, ad-aware, spybot, norton removal tool, geeksquad mri, screenshots of a nub trying to run pwdump2 on one of the lab computers I maintain via a batch file created and downloaded from his personal univ. website. Planning on putting some more of the sysinternal stuff on there too. "Pricelessware" haha.
... rather than just taking everything I hear from the internet (interpreted thanks to eff.org). Kudos to people like sheetrock, teilo, and others for doing the same. Im not going to bother reiterating some of their previous points regarding "backdooring our routers!". If you're confused ... lookup "backdoor" and "wiretap" on some jargon files or something.
/ DOC-260434A1.pdf
Heres a link to the fcc announcement (NOT eff.org's) http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch
Ooooh theres some big telco words in there that I had to look up.
facilities-based isp: isp owns the switches and access servers.
Many isps are non-facilities based or hybrid based, meaning that they buy some access from other facilities-based isps, and have some equipment of their own. It only makes sense that the fcc would want access to the equipment through the people that actually own them.
More specifically the announcement mentioned that they would target the facilities based isps / voIP carriers that allow connection to pstn (public switched telephone network).
You guys have all seen those cop movies where they sneak into the bad guy's house and tap his phone. Well, if a bad guy is using voIP, you can hardly do that. (Well you can, because voIP's standard is not encrypted, although some like skype claim to). So rather than try to tap at the source, which could possibly be encrypted (as teilo said), they just tap it at the point at which it is just pstn traffic again. (Remember they were focusing on services that allowed communication to pstn from voip). So if bad guy A tries to do voIP to bad guy B whos just on pstn, then fbi can listen in, without knowing the location of bad guy B.
This leaves the idea of the bad guys just talking voIP to voIP with encryption. People say that the government can already sniff our traffic and see everything we do, so whats the point of this new legislation? Where are they sniffing from? As of now, I don't think its via these ISPs who are commercially owned with little to no regulation. So maybe this is the government just moving their pieces in to better position on the board.
Just my 2 cents.
thx for reminding me not to be a pushover in the IT field in the future. I know i will know my stuff, and know that my employers would be HELPLESS without me. I dont think one mans story of how he maybe couldnt hack it quite as well as he thought, should be a discouragement to a promising student like myself. If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Cheesy? Yes, but maybe its not the job, maybe its you. I know several IT people that have great control of their lives, improving the quality of them constantly, instead of withering away. I feel sorry for you, but maybe you should be more positive and tell people the mistakes u might have made, so as not to repeat them. thx.