Details of the exploit were presented Friday durning the "Electronic Bank Robberies" talk at Chaos Communication Congress, yet some how the slashdot article completely misses that. You can watch the talk on Youtube or download the MP4 Video(172M) if you want to watch the original talk.
I am just taking a stab in the dark here as I don't really know, but maybe there are a lot of "MS Stack software" developers in the home of MS. If they got a ton of them already in town why import more?
Absolutely correct. I work in Seattle on FreeBSD, and there are plenty of places looking for employees (Amazon, F5, Isilon, etc.) with a Linux/BSD background. If you want to work on the "MS Stack" you are more or less going to be looking for a job a Microsoft. The market here is completely saturated with Microsoft employees who are looking for a change of pace. They actually do have 6 years of experience developing on frameworks Microsoft released 5 years ago.
Eh, I wouldn't be so sure about that. This was the front page story of The Stranger print edition, which is a fairly popular weekly newspaper in Seattle. I had no connection with The Stranger story, but I'm one of the obscure bloggers investigating the wireless mesh. I made my first request to the Seattle Police Department in February 2013. Yes, a full 10 months ago. I didn't ask them to answer any questions, I just asked for the records. I made the following request:
Pursuant to RCW Ch. 42.56 (Public Records Act), I hereby request the following records:
The maps, purchase orders, maintenance contracts, technical specifications, usage policies, access procedures, data retention policies, installation instructions, device configurations, interconnect details, and other public records requests for the wireless mesh network installed in the second half of 2012.
There is clearly a coverup going on here, but the police aren't going to talk about it. So I went to the IT and Finance people. Well, I got back quite a few interesting records from them! For example, this project included $9795.19 RADIUS server. On what planet does a RADIUS server cost that much? It turns out to be a $1000 dell server running FreeRADIUS. Even that is overkill.
Another interesting feature, is the camera aspect you brought up. There are already 36 high-res pan tilt zoom cameras on this network, and there is enough bandwidth for them to add over 1600 more. In addition, they significantly overpaid for the cameras by not properly following their own bidding process rules.
There are real problems with this project and most of them are not related to surveillance. Even when it is just a small blogger investigating, it is the Seattle Police Department's responsibility under Washington state law to turn over copies of records requested. Hopefully The Stranger article will bring enough attention to this problem to encourage the Police department to do the right thing, obey the law, and release the records to anyone who asks for them.
I live just a few blocks from the park (and staffed a table on Sunday of the event), the 4G problems are not due to coverage but due to network congestion. You can easily get 10-15 Mbps via both Clear and Verizon 4G when there aren't 50k people there.
You really should be looking at point to point microwave for your backhall. I'm sure Spectrum Networks can provide you with a 1Gbps link on at least the south half of the park. Digital Fortress has a datacenter in the big black round building that overlooks the park. I suspect they could get you roof access and a 1Gbps feed too. Most of the buildings along the park belong to tech companies (F5 networks, Big Fish Games). If you can talk one of them into sponsoring you, they could likely get you bandwidth on their roofs too.
Bandwidth isn't a problem, you just need to bring your own. Obviously that requires money and forward planning.
They DO have a working tracking system for both letter sized mail and packages. You just have to build your own interface, all they do is upload a file with scans to your FTP server. They give quite a bit of data on a letter, here is an example from a mailpiece I sent a few weeks ago. It was scanned five times over two days, and they will send scans as frequently as once per hour.
Oh, and the example I provided was a First Class letter. Tracking cost me nothing more than printing a barcode on the envelope before dropping it in the mailbox. Too bad they don't provide an easy way to use this service.
Hey, at least you aren't at that other state university. The one that uses microsoft hosted outlook. If you want an unreliable, insecure, windows only email solution with the same privacy implications as hosted Gmail, Try Outlook Live!
Oh, and just to clarify, this is not an option offered by the university, this is the only option.
Wow, ~34 miles from the transmitter is very far away compared to someone in Seattle. My parents in the suburbs are closer to the towers then you. Half of the transmitter towers are right in the middle of the city on Queen Anne Hill (3 towers are visible in the linked map). At ~20 miles out they get fairly good reception with a 6' roof antenna... except when it's raining. The signal occasionally breaks up during rain storms (aka most of the time). With bunny ears the digital signal is unwatchable, but analog comes in just fine.
I live in the middle of nowhere, about 60 miles away. Analog barely comes in, and my digital tuner can't even lock on to a signal, let alone decode it.
So to conclude... 5 miles from the tower: bunny ears are fine. 20 miles: medium antenna, and 60 miles: out of luck.
Are you saying you wouldn't have run away? We had already been there for over an hour so there was no point in staying to see what might or might not happen. Generally it's not a good idea to get in a gun fight with a rancher on their own property.
Are we in the reality where the Air Force is supporting a show about secret off world operations as a way to mask true off world operations? No, we are in the reality where the Air Force is supporting a show about the Air Force supporting a show about secret off world operations.
Politicians make their living off of the same vapourware every election-- and for some inexplicable reason, the masses keep buying into it. How about a short list?
1. Balanced Budget
2. Peace in our time
Actually, I would say that at least one candidate doesn't seem to care about those two. He's been supporting the current economic agenda, and has said we may be in Iraq for another 100 years.
For better or for worse (I'd say the latter), the list of political vaporware seems to have been reduced this year. Strange that you can only find one candidate, because I can find at least twomore. While those other candidates may be for ending the war in Iraq, one of them thinks its time for Iran, and the other just has not decided where to bomb next. And with all these new spending programs they are all talking about, there will be no way to balance the budget.
Is it just me, or are their a bunch of clones running for president this year? *Buys one way ticket to New Zealand*
What about FreeBSD, Solaris, and my Cellphone? And "Full Linux support is coming" could mean years. Is their a open source implementation of the viewer?
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if Ron Paul had earned all of that support, why weren't there any national ads?
I sure remember seeing Ron Paul ads on stations in my area... National ads are quite useless in primaries, but Ron Paul has plenty of local ads running in places where there are actually people voting soon.
At my parents house about 20 miles North of Seattle (Mukilteo), I get 34 digital channels, and of that 8 are in HD. For comparison, I get 14 analog channels.
4.1 - ABC 720p 5.1 - NBC 1080p 5.2 - NBC Weather 7.1 - CBS 1080p 7.2 - Space Needle Camera 9.1 - PBS KCTS 9.2 - V-Me (Spanish-language PBS) 9.3 - PBS Create 9.5 - PBS HD 720p 11.1 - CW 1080p 12.1 - KVOS (Independent) 13.1 - FOX 720p 16.1 - KONG 1080p (Independent/NBC) 20.1 - TBN (Religious) 20.2 - The Church Channel 20.3 - JCTV (Religious Music) 20.4 - Enlace USA (Spanish-language Religious) 20.5 - Smile of a Child (Children Religious) 22.1 - MyNetworkTV 720p 24.1 - Shop NBC 28.1 - PBS KBTC 28.2 - PBS Create 28.3 - Annenberg Media 28.4 - World View 33.1 - ION 33.2 - qubo (Children) 33.3 - ION Life 33.4 - The Worship Network 42.1 - Daystar (Religious) 45.1 - Shop at Home 45.2 - Azteca América (Spanish-language) 45.3 - AAT Television (Chinese-language) 45.4 - America One 51.1 - Univision (Spanish-language)
In Pullman (aka The Middle of Nowhere except for Washington State University), I get 0 digital channels and 3 analog.
Wait, They have those here? I need to get out of the "Math, Science, and Engineering" residence hall more often!
Seriously though, where does it mention a sorority in the headline? I had it figured out by the time I got halfway through the summary to where it mentioned that there were sororities involved.
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Details of the exploit were presented Friday durning the "Electronic Bank Robberies" talk at Chaos Communication Congress, yet some how the slashdot article completely misses that. You can watch the talk on Youtube or download the MP4 Video(172M) if you want to watch the original talk.
I am just taking a stab in the dark here as I don't really know, but maybe there are a lot of "MS Stack software" developers in the home of MS. If they got a ton of them already in town why import more?
Absolutely correct. I work in Seattle on FreeBSD, and there are plenty of places looking for employees (Amazon, F5, Isilon, etc.) with a Linux/BSD background. If you want to work on the "MS Stack" you are more or less going to be looking for a job a Microsoft. The market here is completely saturated with Microsoft employees who are looking for a change of pace. They actually do have 6 years of experience developing on frameworks Microsoft released 5 years ago.
Pursuant to RCW Ch. 42.56 (Public Records Act), I hereby request the following records: The maps, purchase orders, maintenance contracts, technical specifications, usage policies, access procedures, data retention policies, installation instructions, device configurations, interconnect details, and other public records requests for the wireless mesh network installed in the second half of 2012.
Obviously these are all things they should have right? I've been fighting with the police department for months, and the best I've gotten is a picture of a crumpled up printout of a low resolution map of the system. You'd think there would be source files for that picture right?
There is clearly a coverup going on here, but the police aren't going to talk about it. So I went to the IT and Finance people. Well, I got back quite a few interesting records from them! For example, this project included $9795.19 RADIUS server. On what planet does a RADIUS server cost that much? It turns out to be a $1000 dell server running FreeRADIUS. Even that is overkill.
Another interesting feature, is the camera aspect you brought up. There are already 36 high-res pan tilt zoom cameras on this network, and there is enough bandwidth for them to add over 1600 more. In addition, they significantly overpaid for the cameras by not properly following their own bidding process rules.
There are real problems with this project and most of them are not related to surveillance. Even when it is just a small blogger investigating, it is the Seattle Police Department's responsibility under Washington state law to turn over copies of records requested. Hopefully The Stranger article will bring enough attention to this problem to encourage the Police department to do the right thing, obey the law, and release the records to anyone who asks for them.
Um, no. IRS Publication 17 doesn't agree:
Bribes. If you receive a bribe, include it in your income.
I live just a few blocks from the park (and staffed a table on Sunday of the event), the 4G problems are not due to coverage but due to network congestion. You can easily get 10-15 Mbps via both Clear and Verizon 4G when there aren't 50k people there. You really should be looking at point to point microwave for your backhall. I'm sure Spectrum Networks can provide you with a 1Gbps link on at least the south half of the park. Digital Fortress has a datacenter in the big black round building that overlooks the park. I suspect they could get you roof access and a 1Gbps feed too. Most of the buildings along the park belong to tech companies (F5 networks, Big Fish Games). If you can talk one of them into sponsoring you, they could likely get you bandwidth on their roofs too. Bandwidth isn't a problem, you just need to bring your own. Obviously that requires money and forward planning.
They DO have a working tracking system for both letter sized mail and packages. You just have to build your own interface, all they do is upload a file with scans to your FTP server. They give quite a bit of data on a letter, here is an example from a mailpiece I sent a few weeks ago. It was scanned five times over two days, and they will send scans as frequently as once per hour.
Oh, and the example I provided was a First Class letter. Tracking cost me nothing more than printing a barcode on the envelope before dropping it in the mailbox. Too bad they don't provide an easy way to use this service.
And don't forget about EMC Isilon.
Hey, at least you aren't at that other state university. The one that uses microsoft hosted outlook. If you want an unreliable, insecure, windows only email solution with the same privacy implications as hosted Gmail, Try Outlook Live!
Oh, and just to clarify, this is not an option offered by the university, this is the only option.
Yea, Where's the 6 digit UID award!
Ha AC! Beat You!
I could be wrong, but this sounds very similar to the purpose of the .net TLD! Why so many new useless TLDs?
Wow, ~34 miles from the transmitter is very far away compared to someone in Seattle. My parents in the suburbs are closer to the towers then you. Half of the transmitter towers are right in the middle of the city on Queen Anne Hill (3 towers are visible in the linked map). At ~20 miles out they get fairly good reception with a 6' roof antenna... except when it's raining. The signal occasionally breaks up during rain storms (aka most of the time). With bunny ears the digital signal is unwatchable, but analog comes in just fine.
I live in the middle of nowhere, about 60 miles away. Analog barely comes in, and my digital tuner can't even lock on to a signal, let alone decode it.
So to conclude... 5 miles from the tower: bunny ears are fine. 20 miles: medium antenna, and 60 miles: out of luck.
Oops. Here, take my nerd card.
Are you saying you wouldn't have run away? We had already been there for over an hour so there was no point in staying to see what might or might not happen. Generally it's not a good idea to get in a gun fight with a rancher on their own property.
Actually they were just sitting on the bed of the truck. They didn't even have a gun rack.
Last time I checked there were three girls there. Even the poster katicli is a girl^D^D^D claims to be a girl.
That feature is called Windows Update.
1. Balanced Budget
2. Peace in our time
Actually, I would say that at least one candidate doesn't seem to care about those two. He's been supporting the current economic agenda, and has said we may be in Iraq for another 100 years.
For better or for worse (I'd say the latter), the list of political vaporware seems to have been reduced this year. Strange that you can only find one candidate, because I can find at least two more. While those other candidates may be for ending the war in Iraq, one of them thinks its time for Iran, and the other just has not decided where to bomb next. And with all these new spending programs they are all talking about, there will be no way to balance the budget.
Is it just me, or are their a bunch of clones running for president this year? *Buys one way ticket to New Zealand*
What about FreeBSD, Solaris, and my Cellphone? And "Full Linux support is coming" could mean years. Is their a open source implementation of the viewer?
At my parents house about 20 miles North of Seattle (Mukilteo), I get 34 digital channels, and of that 8 are in HD. For comparison, I get 14 analog channels.
4.1 - ABC 720p
5.1 - NBC 1080p
5.2 - NBC Weather
7.1 - CBS 1080p
7.2 - Space Needle Camera
9.1 - PBS KCTS
9.2 - V-Me (Spanish-language PBS)
9.3 - PBS Create
9.5 - PBS HD 720p
11.1 - CW 1080p
12.1 - KVOS (Independent)
13.1 - FOX 720p
16.1 - KONG 1080p (Independent/NBC)
20.1 - TBN (Religious)
20.2 - The Church Channel
20.3 - JCTV (Religious Music)
20.4 - Enlace USA (Spanish-language Religious)
20.5 - Smile of a Child (Children Religious)
22.1 - MyNetworkTV 720p
24.1 - Shop NBC
28.1 - PBS KBTC
28.2 - PBS Create
28.3 - Annenberg Media
28.4 - World View
33.1 - ION
33.2 - qubo (Children)
33.3 - ION Life
33.4 - The Worship Network
42.1 - Daystar (Religious)
45.1 - Shop at Home
45.2 - Azteca América (Spanish-language)
45.3 - AAT Television (Chinese-language)
45.4 - America One
51.1 - Univision (Spanish-language)
In Pullman (aka The Middle of Nowhere except for Washington State University), I get 0 digital channels and 3 analog.
The 1 watt peek transmitter power is allowed by the part 15 regulations. Much higher transmit powers are possible with part 97. Source
I will get on that, right after I name my first son 'Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;'.
Wait, They have those here? I need to get out of the "Math, Science, and Engineering" residence hall more often!
Seriously though, where does it mention a sorority in the headline? I had it figured out by the time I got halfway through the summary to where it mentioned that there were sororities involved.