I seriously doubt that meraki is making a loss by selling a 50 USD access point. 50$ is roughly 32 Euros, and I can buy access points for that price here in germany just fine. So don't tell me that a company that orders a few thousend units cannot meet that price.
Fon has also tried to lock out hackers from their hardware - although the moment they sell it, it's not their hardware anymore. There are still some hacks that work and give you SSH access, check my website about it. Although my latest hack ("kolofonium") does not work with the latest firmware, there are still many systems using it: http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/kolofonium-chart.png
So you can guess how many of the sold FON spots may still be active; FON managed to alienate many advanced users that wished to participate but were locked out of their routers.
Just tried it on a box with 2.6.18 with XEN and VServer patches; It did not succeed, however it did broadcast a general protection fault over all consoles - the addresses probably differ from the default due to the included patches.
Every time I post on Slashdot, it takes forever for me to Submit the post, because I get probed on a few ports (which timeout).
Set your packet filter to REJECT instead of DROP. Dropping packets i usually a bad idea and sounds like some kind of obscure desktop firewall in "stealth mode".
Anyway, since a network login can be done with a smartcard, why not an authentication mechanism using a USB stick drive containing the private RSA key?
Because putting your pretty USB stick in a compromised system would void the security of your key. Anyone can just copy it an use it for himself. You can't do that with a smart card, since the key never leaves the card.
If I want to change lanes, I signal, check the mirror, and go.
...while the motorcycle driver who was approaching you from behind at twice your speed recovers from his heart attack. NEVER signal without looking. Look, THEN signal, look again, go. A car around 10m in front of you signaling a change to your lane while you approach it with a signficant speed difference is NOT something you are looking forward to.
Secondly, and this is a major change that will probably take a few revisions, but ditch your widget library. GTK, I believe. It requires a seperate application package on Windows, which gives the user a headache for virtually no benefit.
Oh, sure, and which widget library will run on Windows without installing a package - and of course on Linux/BSD/OSX/etc. as well?
When having lots of toolbars, MDI applications (like Photoshop) are so much better than SDI applications like GIMP, because they don't clog up the taskbar and fill as much or as little of the screen as you desire.
Sure, as long as you are using a broken window manager (read: windows) without virtual desktops.
While I prefer Firefox myself, I got into trouble with both IE and Firefox. As a hobby project, I run a website about my university cafeteria: You can retrieve the menu there in various forms, including a web page, RSS feeds, and a CSV interface. For this interface, I created a firefox extension using XUL. If you want to try it, be warned: XUL documentation is either non existing, or outdated. developing consisted mainly of trial and error (and of course skimming other extension, which probably did the same).
On the other hand, IE has massive trouble displaying the page: While Konqueror, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari all do fine, every version of IE does something wrong - and never the same thing: Check Browsershots.org for the horror gallery (and yes, the site is XHTML and CSS compliant).
There are routers that do not allow flashing a custom firmware: However, most devices do have bugs in the webinterface that allows the owner to execute arbitrary shell code to circumvent this protection. Often, there a different approaches: The routers given away by FON (La Fonera) did have some web interface vulnerabilities, however FON fixed this in the latest firmware (0.7.1-2). They did not pay attention to their chillispot system: There is an attack vector that involves spoofing the FON radius server, in the tradition of the earlier hacks Grammofon and Fondue, this new hack (which works on all FON firmware versions) is called Kolofonium. It enables SSH access to the devices and by that allows further customization.
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I seriously doubt that meraki is making a loss by selling a 50 USD access point. 50$ is roughly 32 Euros, and I can buy access points for that price here in germany just fine. So don't tell me that a company that orders a few thousend units cannot meet that price.
Fon has also tried to lock out hackers from their hardware - although the moment they sell it, it's not their hardware anymore. There are still some hacks that work and give you SSH access, check my website about it. Although my latest hack ("kolofonium") does not work with the latest firmware, there are still many systems using it: http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/kolofonium-chart.png So you can guess how many of the sold FON spots may still be active; FON managed to alienate many advanced users that wished to participate but were locked out of their routers.
Just tried it on a box with 2.6.18 with XEN and VServer patches; It did not succeed, however it did broadcast a general protection fault over all consoles - the addresses probably differ from the default due to the included patches.
Oh boy, stop crying: 7 (U.S. dollars / US gallon) = 1.2587328 Euros / liter
We are way past that in europe (approaching 1.5 EUR here in germany) for some time now. And guess what? Civilisation is not collapsing.
Now write 100 times:
I don't know how often I read Slashdot postings confusing "berg" (mountain) and "burg" (castle).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8yvgAPIjaYA He's in rehab.
A few years ago, a passenger jet an a freight plane collided over southern germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirian_Airlines_Flight_2937
Because putting your pretty USB stick in a compromised system would void the security of your key. Anyone can just copy it an use it for himself. You can't do that with a smart card, since the key never leaves the card.
...while the motorcycle driver who was approaching you from behind at twice your speed recovers from his heart attack. NEVER signal without looking. Look, THEN signal, look again, go. A car around 10m in front of you signaling a change to your lane while you approach it with a signficant speed difference is NOT something you are looking forward to.
They do when the next release is due. Which can be quite a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal
Oh, sure, and which widget library will run on Windows without installing a package - and of course on Linux/BSD/OSX/etc. as well?
Sure, as long as you are using a broken window manager (read: windows) without virtual desktops.
While I prefer Firefox myself, I got into trouble with both IE and Firefox. As a hobby project, I run a website about my university cafeteria: You can retrieve the menu there in various forms, including a web page, RSS feeds, and a CSV interface. For this interface, I created a firefox extension using XUL. If you want to try it, be warned: XUL documentation is either non existing, or outdated. developing consisted mainly of trial and error (and of course skimming other extension, which probably did the same).
On the other hand, IE has massive trouble displaying the page: While Konqueror, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari all do fine, every version of IE does something wrong - and never the same thing: Check Browsershots.org for the horror gallery (and yes, the site is XHTML and CSS compliant).e.g. attached to a frickin' shark?
"Burns". It sounds exactly as "Börns".
"oo"? Like in "moon"? That would be the german letter "u". "ö", the umlaut variant to "o", sounds pretty much like the "u" in "Burns".
So it's "Battlestar Galactica" on earth?
No.
No he can't. He will need the root password then.
There are routers that do not allow flashing a custom firmware: However, most devices do have bugs in the webinterface that allows the owner to execute arbitrary shell code to circumvent this protection. Often, there a different approaches: The routers given away by FON (La Fonera) did have some web interface vulnerabilities, however FON fixed this in the latest firmware (0.7.1-2). They did not pay attention to their chillispot system: There is an attack vector that involves spoofing the FON radius server, in the tradition of the earlier hacks Grammofon and Fondue, this new hack (which works on all FON firmware versions) is called Kolofonium. It enables SSH access to the devices and by that allows further customization.
Because programmers are the construction workers of IT, not the architects.