Build or download a firmware image for your model router and DD-WRT should let you flash it from the admin webapp same as it would a new version of DD-WRT firmware.
Though I would certainly research their competitors products as well before making any purchases, but this is the type of equipment that ISPs and large banks might use to test their infrastructure.
Plenty of companies out there make tools for testing this sort of thing. Spirent, Ixxia, and Agilent, to name a few all have layer 4-7 traffic generation appliance type products for stress testing.
I bet you the engineers have faster cables using ultra-flexible fiber optics, but they likely still cost thousands of dollars to make, or maybe they can't make them durable enough yet. I work with embedded bus analyzers that have transceiver daughter boards for this very reason. It'll be like USB 3.0 devices which are compatible with USB 2.0 & 1.0 ports, though that's just speculation on my part.
This sounds like the same last mile technology I have to my 'fiber' modem, though the modem has better bandwidth at 40d/20u. Thunder bolt has 2 full duplex 10/10 copper pairs for a total of 20/20 GBps at 100% utilization, it's be interesting to see what effective file transfer speeds are after protocol overhead.
Putting the transceivers in the cable itself could mean that upgrading the bandwidth is as simple as getting a better cable and upgrading the thunderbolt driver.
It's all about money, it's expensive to get a device certified for operation during takeoff and landing. I've worked for a couple avionics companies myself, and getting the radiated/conducted emissions down to the approved levels is not always an easy task.
That being said, Amazon should pony up the dough to get the Kindle approved for use during takeoff and landing with the wireless off. I doubt there's much of a difference between the radiated emissions in its standby mode with the screen blank and when reading since it takes no power to maintain the text. They would have to test a bunch of page turns to get worse case radiated emissions and would maybe change some clock frequencies to avoid harmonics that can interfere with communication to air traffic control etc, but I doubt there would be any major hardware changes.
Open field EM testing and modifying the hardware to fix any deficiencies is not a cheap process, and it often takes many hardware revisions even when the design engineers are experienced dealing with the emission requirements.
A better analogy would be the 'hacker' walking on to a secure military facility, in real life, completely unchallenged, collecting sensitive data to prove he got in and out undetected and going to the town hall with it to present his evidence to the community to report the vulnerability.
Do you even know what a SQL injection attack is? A common one is the user/password authentication, you enter in a fake user/pass combo and put
' or '1'='1
at the end to terminate the sql string and inject additional script so after the fake user/pass lookup fails, the or 1=1 test passes and you log on anyway.
The fact that these sort of dumbass errors abound, when these vulnerability classes have been known for over a decade is beyond negligent. The fact the law says that having half ass security makes it a crime to access the computer is fine, but when millions of individuals confidential data is protected by the rule of law instead of actual state of the art security practices, it's a problem.
Attacking the utility infrastructure versus defacing an FBI website and rooting their server without causing any significant harm are 2 very different crimes. Considering the effect the lulzsec group is having on security awareness, it could even be considered a good thing. These guys are operating for the most part transparently, they aren't hacking the servers and keeping it secret to use against the targets. Yes, it's an embarrassingly public data breach, but after compromising the infrastructure, they don't go and exploit this access stealing identities or otherwise engage in criminal activities (from the sound of it).
They're providing a service free of charge that most responsible corporations pay good money for, if anything we should be thanking them for encouraging good security to prevent embarrassment before someone does something truly malicious to all those people effected by these data breaches. Think of it this way, if you were the emperor and wore no clothes, would you persecute the person who pointed it out?
Why hasn't Sony halted sales of products which require the PSN to work at all like the PSP go? If the PSN is indefinitely down, it is impossible to load games to play offline making them guilty of fraud for continuing to sell it.
It's hard to say they're doing the right thing when they're continuing to sell gaming systems that can't play games.
I just got a PSP go thinking it would be perfect to compliment my kindle for an upcoming international flight. But I can't even play the games that came with it since the game installer disk needs to authenticate with the PSN to install the games.
I have been considering shipping it and the bonus game disk back for service, maybe they can load the games for me.
The way I hear it, Idaho National Labs was able to quickly decode the worm since it was likely a weaponized exploit from a report they wrote. I'm betting when DHS got them involved, it was not their first time seeing this equipment as they audit our infrastructure all the time.
If they want to use that boat battery to operate the winch and the micro controller, they'll need more than a solar panel to charge it. They should consider adding a forward facing prop under the hull to harvest power from the vessel's slip stream to run a small generator as an additional power source for the battery. Though in their design, I didn't see how they planned to actuate the rudder (did it have a rudder?) to maintain a steady bearing to harness the wind effectively.
That only works when there's not a coding standard in place at said company. A good coding standard covers all those points and much, much more, leaving developers to debate the problems that actually matter to the company.
It's not a wiretap when your profile settings aren't set to private. That the FBI scans publicly accessible content around the world is to be expected. Especially when Facebook provides an API for manipulating data on its site. It's not like they ignored a robots.txt file. They were invited to do make applications and harvest whatever data they had permission to access, along with everybody else in the world.
I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI had bots for games like mafia wars that added people as friends to develop trust networks which would give them access to all sorts of data limited to friends and friends of friends.
And then you have small companies being bought by big ones and still staying separate entities, yet having resources to do adequate R&D and staff top people.
Actually on some models the side view mirrors are controlled by CAN (Controller Area Network) bus, and all the above mentioned systems can be accessed without opening the door. Sophisticated car theives were the first to discover this.
One would hope that if you went with the rebel efi option, you could choose no os, and just install your own copy of OS X once it arrived. If these people have any brains they skip the windows tax and ship linux as a default OS, assuming it is just a publicity stunt. Maybe with a blank alternate OS partition and a commented out grub entry for dual booting OS X.
You sound like someone who's never met a DoE red team. Is your utility looking at the new shiny smart grid technology? There's a blackhat talk about worm propagation through the smart grid wireless mesh.
A worm wouldn't be so bad except for the fact these smart meters are built with a remote disconnect feature. A an engineer for a major utility, maybe you can tell the class what would happen if a hacker turned off power to 100,000 homes at the same time, all that current has to go somewhere.
Kidney's are redundant and vital, you cannot lose both and still live unassisted. The Gall Bladder is the liver's side kick. It's a bile reservoir, the liver produces bile, and if you lose it, you'll have no fun eating for a while since your liver needs time to adjust to producing more bile. The tonsils are part of the lymphatic system of the body, and if you lose them, the body can make do.
Lymph nodes are found all through the body, and act as filters or traps for foreign particles. They contain white blood cells that use oxygen to process. Thus they are important in the proper functioning of the immune system.
(from Wikipedia) The only vestigal organ I can think of is the appendix, now that the spleen has had its purpose explained more fully.
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Build or download a firmware image for your model router and DD-WRT should let you flash it from the admin webapp same as it would a new version of DD-WRT firmware.
DD-WRT is also an OpenWRT fork from what I heard, hardly an "open source" model Slashdot should be promoting.
Here's a more appropriate link http://www.spirent.com/Solutions-Directory/Avalanche.aspx
Though I would certainly research their competitors products as well before making any purchases, but this is the type of equipment that ISPs and large banks might use to test their infrastructure.
Plenty of companies out there make tools for testing this sort of thing. Spirent, Ixxia, and Agilent, to name a few all have layer 4-7 traffic generation appliance type products for stress testing.
http://www.spirent.com/Devices-and-Equipment/Base_station_testing.aspx
I bet you the engineers have faster cables using ultra-flexible fiber optics, but they likely still cost thousands of dollars to make, or maybe they can't make them durable enough yet. I work with embedded bus analyzers that have transceiver daughter boards for this very reason. It'll be like USB 3.0 devices which are compatible with USB 2.0 & 1.0 ports, though that's just speculation on my part.
This sounds like the same last mile technology I have to my 'fiber' modem, though the modem has better bandwidth at 40d/20u. Thunder bolt has 2 full duplex 10/10 copper pairs for a total of 20/20 GBps at 100% utilization, it's be interesting to see what effective file transfer speeds are after protocol overhead.
Putting the transceivers in the cable itself could mean that upgrading the bandwidth is as simple as getting a better cable and upgrading the thunderbolt driver.
It's all about money, it's expensive to get a device certified for operation during takeoff and landing. I've worked for a couple avionics companies myself, and getting the radiated/conducted emissions down to the approved levels is not always an easy task.
That being said, Amazon should pony up the dough to get the Kindle approved for use during takeoff and landing with the wireless off. I doubt there's much of a difference between the radiated emissions in its standby mode with the screen blank and when reading since it takes no power to maintain the text. They would have to test a bunch of page turns to get worse case radiated emissions and would maybe change some clock frequencies to avoid harmonics that can interfere with communication to air traffic control etc, but I doubt there would be any major hardware changes.
Open field EM testing and modifying the hardware to fix any deficiencies is not a cheap process, and it often takes many hardware revisions even when the design engineers are experienced dealing with the emission requirements.
A better analogy would be the 'hacker' walking on to a secure military facility, in real life, completely unchallenged, collecting sensitive data to prove he got in and out undetected and going to the town hall with it to present his evidence to the community to report the vulnerability.
Do you even know what a SQL injection attack is? A common one is the user/password authentication, you enter in a fake user/pass combo and put
at the end to terminate the sql string and inject additional script so after the fake user/pass lookup fails, the or 1=1 test passes and you log on anyway.
The fact that these sort of dumbass errors abound, when these vulnerability classes have been known for over a decade is beyond negligent. The fact the law says that having half ass security makes it a crime to access the computer is fine, but when millions of individuals confidential data is protected by the rule of law instead of actual state of the art security practices, it's a problem.
I'll have you note I referred to both as crimes, one is criminal mischief, the other an act of war.
Attacking the utility infrastructure versus defacing an FBI website and rooting their server without causing any significant harm are 2 very different crimes. Considering the effect the lulzsec group is having on security awareness, it could even be considered a good thing. These guys are operating for the most part transparently, they aren't hacking the servers and keeping it secret to use against the targets. Yes, it's an embarrassingly public data breach, but after compromising the infrastructure, they don't go and exploit this access stealing identities or otherwise engage in criminal activities (from the sound of it).
They're providing a service free of charge that most responsible corporations pay good money for, if anything we should be thanking them for encouraging good security to prevent embarrassment before someone does something truly malicious to all those people effected by these data breaches. Think of it this way, if you were the emperor and wore no clothes, would you persecute the person who pointed it out?
Why hasn't Sony halted sales of products which require the PSN to work at all like the PSP go? If the PSN is indefinitely down, it is impossible to load games to play offline making them guilty of fraud for continuing to sell it.
It's hard to say they're doing the right thing when they're continuing to sell gaming systems that can't play games.
I just got a PSP go thinking it would be perfect to compliment my kindle for an upcoming international flight. But I can't even play the games that came with it since the game installer disk needs to authenticate with the PSN to install the games.
I have been considering shipping it and the bonus game disk back for service, maybe they can load the games for me.
Not that they would have known they were involved, since it would have been redacted from their report if DoE decided to pocket the exploit.
The way I hear it, Idaho National Labs was able to quickly decode the worm since it was likely a weaponized exploit from a report they wrote. I'm betting when DHS got them involved, it was not their first time seeing this equipment as they audit our infrastructure all the time.
If they want to use that boat battery to operate the winch and the micro controller, they'll need more than a solar panel to charge it. They should consider adding a forward facing prop under the hull to harvest power from the vessel's slip stream to run a small generator as an additional power source for the battery. Though in their design, I didn't see how they planned to actuate the rudder (did it have a rudder?) to maintain a steady bearing to harness the wind effectively.
That only works when there's not a coding standard in place at said company. A good coding standard covers all those points and much, much more, leaving developers to debate the problems that actually matter to the company.
It's not a wiretap when your profile settings aren't set to private. That the FBI scans publicly accessible content around the world is to be expected. Especially when Facebook provides an API for manipulating data on its site. It's not like they ignored a robots.txt file. They were invited to do make applications and harvest whatever data they had permission to access, along with everybody else in the world.
I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI had bots for games like mafia wars that added people as friends to develop trust networks which would give them access to all sorts of data limited to friends and friends of friends.
And then you have small companies being bought by big ones and still staying separate entities, yet having resources to do adequate R&D and staff top people.
Actually on some models the side view mirrors are controlled by CAN (Controller Area Network) bus, and all the above mentioned systems can be accessed without opening the door. Sophisticated car theives were the first to discover this.
One would hope that if you went with the rebel efi option, you could choose no os, and just install your own copy of OS X once it arrived. If these people have any brains they skip the windows tax and ship linux as a default OS, assuming it is just a publicity stunt. Maybe with a blank alternate OS partition and a commented out grub entry for dual booting OS X.
You sound like someone who's never met a DoE red team. Is your utility looking at the new shiny smart grid technology? There's a blackhat talk about worm propagation through the smart grid wireless mesh.
A worm wouldn't be so bad except for the fact these smart meters are built with a remote disconnect feature. A an engineer for a major utility, maybe you can tell the class what would happen if a hacker turned off power to 100,000 homes at the same time, all that current has to go somewhere.
http://gb1990.com/
No one is accusing him of doing it, but isn't it curious he hasn't provided any evidence to the contrary?
I wish I had mod points right now to mod you funny before you get (erroneously) buried as a troll.
Kidney's are redundant and vital, you cannot lose both and still live unassisted.
The Gall Bladder is the liver's side kick. It's a bile reservoir, the liver produces bile, and if you lose it, you'll have no fun eating for a while since your liver needs time to adjust to producing more bile.
The tonsils are part of the lymphatic system of the body, and if you lose them, the body can make do.
(from Wikipedia)
The only vestigal organ I can think of is the appendix, now that the spleen has had its purpose explained more fully.
Look at the "List Price" for those books and you'll see they technically don't violate their guarantee.