Its very easy to do on wireless networks.
There is a program called KARMA which will make a wifi card mimic an AP. It waits for computers to probe for a SSID and then mimics an AP with that SSID. once they think your computer is an AP its amazingly easy to phish them for data. Makes you wonder about all of those places with free wireless (St*rbucks, P@nera)...
The 'scrammbling' isn't about getting the code working, its figureing out why the programmers didn't finish for their old deadline. And why none of the higher up people didn't catch this. 2007 is a recent deadline...
Why not RTFA? The post you are responding to was talking about a previous attempt not the newest one. So how about reading the article before you tell people to read the article?
It does seem like the internet is going to get slowed down by the major ISPs. Its just too good from a marketing and profiting point of view. But maybe if the internet becomes too locked down some college kids could put together a small network and slowly connect all of their friends and their friends' friends.
Would it be posible for the internet to be reborn?
Consider the option of everyone having wireless access. All that is needed is the access point but it could be done like a giant Ad-Hoc network. Especialy with cities starting to provide wireless to everyone.
How soon untill we can remove the middle man ISPs?
I've had comcast for several years and it seems to me like they've gone down hill a lot. I used to have a static ip with an uncapped modem!! i even called them up about it and they told me that over the phone. It made getting to my files very easy over the net.
more recently they 'upgraded' their network with out telling anyone so I spent hours on tech support only to be told that they had upgraded my area and needed a new modem. They didn't tell anyone about the 'upgrade' because they said they didn't have enough modems for everyone.
Comcast seems like a teenage girl; lots of drama and gets angry for about a week once a month.
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Its very easy to do on wireless networks. There is a program called KARMA which will make a wifi card mimic an AP. It waits for computers to probe for a SSID and then mimics an AP with that SSID. once they think your computer is an AP its amazingly easy to phish them for data. Makes you wonder about all of those places with free wireless (St*rbucks, P@nera)...
they are trying to validate it by observing a merger. RTFA
Maybe all of the microwave radiation put him to sleep...
Sounds like we are getting closer and closer to '1984'...
Every time i read the news that book seems like it is comming closer to the truth.
The 'scrammbling' isn't about getting the code working, its figureing out why the programmers didn't finish for their old deadline. And why none of the higher up people didn't catch this. 2007 is a recent deadline...
Why not RTFA? The post you are responding to was talking about a previous attempt not the newest one. So how about reading the article before you tell people to read the article?
It does seem like the internet is going to get slowed down by the major ISPs. Its just too good from a marketing and profiting point of view. But maybe if the internet becomes too locked down some college kids could put together a small network and slowly connect all of their friends and their friends' friends. Would it be posible for the internet to be reborn? Consider the option of everyone having wireless access. All that is needed is the access point but it could be done like a giant Ad-Hoc network. Especialy with cities starting to provide wireless to everyone. How soon untill we can remove the middle man ISPs?
I've had comcast for several years and it seems to me like they've gone down hill a lot. I used to have a static ip with an uncapped modem!! i even called them up about it and they told me that over the phone. It made getting to my files very easy over the net. more recently they 'upgraded' their network with out telling anyone so I spent hours on tech support only to be told that they had upgraded my area and needed a new modem. They didn't tell anyone about the 'upgrade' because they said they didn't have enough modems for everyone. Comcast seems like a teenage girl; lots of drama and gets angry for about a week once a month.