One commercial airliner spiralling into the ocean, or worse, into a civilian target, will pop them into line quick-smart, and won't hear about their violated rights again to the end of their self-centred days.
On the other hand, won't that downed airliner have established that this has been security theater all along?
While actual terrorists may not be testing them, security measures at U.S. airports have undergone internal testing. And they've failed miserably every time.
"What's smarter than designing something that can adapt to its environment entirely on its own?"
Uh, designing perfect organisms and a perfect environment, so that adaptation is unnecessary?
No. Fail as long as AP is using WPA or WPA2 and a decent non-dictionary passphrase. Rainbow tables don't work on all passwords. Usually they just pre-calculate PSKs using large dictionaries with some minor mangling applied.
Also, because the SSID of the AP is hashed into PSK, you need a rainbow table for the specific SSID you are trying to hack. So while some common SSID's like "linksys" or "attwifi" (Google church of the renderlab for most common ssids with pre-made tables) may be more vulnerable, if their passphrase is a 20-character, non-dictionary mix of alphanumeric, upper/lower case and special characters, you won't be cracking it in your lifetime using today's best hardware.
For some impressive cracking of WPA/2 (after you capture the 4-way handshake), check out Pyrit, which uses GPU computing to blow away programs like aircrack or cowpatty. Using a radeon 4850, I can calculate over 20,000 PSKs/sec for any given SSID using a wordlist, john the ripper, crunch, or any other dictionary tool.
But just to give you an idea of how futile this can be, I've calculated over 5 billion PSKs for a neighbor's WPA2-PSK router (it has a non-standard SSID) and I've only gone through 2% of an incomplete wordlist which is being mangled with john the ripper. Note: this is not for malicious intent. I have 2 neighbors using WEP that I cracked in about 10 mins and I haven't used their wifi -- just new to backtrack and playing around.
To sum up: I doubt I'll ever crack my neighbor's WPA2, even if I were calculating 100,000 PSKs/sec. There are just too many possibilities once you leave the dictionary.
So my advice: Use a non-standard SSID, and WPA2-PSK (radius is even better, obviously) with a non-dictionary password of 12 or more characters. Most hackers will give up on you and move on.
This junk they're selling in China just sounds like WEP cracking stuff, which any slashdotter could learn in about an hour or less from the aircrack-ng site.
"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in--an interesting hole I find myself in--fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'"
The bill of rights only applies to government, not private employers. The only issue raised in the article is whether such a rule would abridge a statutory (not constitutional) right for employees to meet for purposes of possibly forming a union. When a private employer says you can't hang out with co-workers after hours, no Constitutional violation occurs.
A lot of posters seem to be under the mistaken impression that their bosses have to have a good reason to fire them. In most states, like my home state of Florida, a private employer can fire you for any reason that is not expressly illegal, such as a discriminatory reason under Title VII or a violation of a whistleblower or workers' compensation law. Only government employees or those with employment contracts receive extra protection.
This means that you can be legally fired for plently of bad reasons, such as "I don't like your hair style" or "I just don't like you." The fact that your employer can fire you for hanging out with co-workers off-hours falls under the "bad, but not illegal" category.
And before you say "what about my freedom of assembly?" realize that the Constitution only places limits on the government's ability to mess with your life, not your employer's.
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Desert power. Literally.
Dolly Idaho.
I think by "countless", they mean "zero", as in "having no count".
Freedom isn't free.
Nope. It costs a $1.05.
She's this hot blonde in a red dress. Dr. Baltar at NATO will love working with her.
And another thing. I don't want to have to pay taxes again. Ever.
One commercial airliner spiralling into the ocean, or worse, into a civilian target, will pop them into line quick-smart, and won't hear about their violated rights again to the end of their self-centred days.
On the other hand, won't that downed airliner have established that this has been security theater all along?
nobody's testing them.
While actual terrorists may not be testing them, security measures at U.S. airports have undergone internal testing. And they've failed miserably every time.
Someone should have told these guys not to bring a flashlight to a gun fight.
"What's smarter than designing something that can adapt to its environment entirely on its own?" Uh, designing perfect organisms and a perfect environment, so that adaptation is unnecessary?
How about U.S. senate republican staffers (not just some random individual republicans) who exploited a security hole to access senate democrats' private files and internal memos for a period of several years during the Bush admin? http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive/
Well, helllloooo, Mr. Fancypants! Maybe, just maybe, you are overestimating its popularity. And maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
This reminded me of an Onion story on America's inner-city youth's proficiency with the metric system: http://www.theonion.com/articles/metric-system-thriving-in-nations-inner-cities,458/ And yes, the first thing I thought when I saw the weight of the kilogram was in question was the effect on the drug trade.
No. Fail as long as AP is using WPA or WPA2 and a decent non-dictionary passphrase. Rainbow tables don't work on all passwords. Usually they just pre-calculate PSKs using large dictionaries with some minor mangling applied. Also, because the SSID of the AP is hashed into PSK, you need a rainbow table for the specific SSID you are trying to hack. So while some common SSID's like "linksys" or "attwifi" (Google church of the renderlab for most common ssids with pre-made tables) may be more vulnerable, if their passphrase is a 20-character, non-dictionary mix of alphanumeric, upper/lower case and special characters, you won't be cracking it in your lifetime using today's best hardware. For some impressive cracking of WPA/2 (after you capture the 4-way handshake), check out Pyrit, which uses GPU computing to blow away programs like aircrack or cowpatty. Using a radeon 4850, I can calculate over 20,000 PSKs/sec for any given SSID using a wordlist, john the ripper, crunch, or any other dictionary tool. But just to give you an idea of how futile this can be, I've calculated over 5 billion PSKs for a neighbor's WPA2-PSK router (it has a non-standard SSID) and I've only gone through 2% of an incomplete wordlist which is being mangled with john the ripper. Note: this is not for malicious intent. I have 2 neighbors using WEP that I cracked in about 10 mins and I haven't used their wifi -- just new to backtrack and playing around. To sum up: I doubt I'll ever crack my neighbor's WPA2, even if I were calculating 100,000 PSKs/sec. There are just too many possibilities once you leave the dictionary. So my advice: Use a non-standard SSID, and WPA2-PSK (radius is even better, obviously) with a non-dictionary password of 12 or more characters. Most hackers will give up on you and move on. This junk they're selling in China just sounds like WEP cracking stuff, which any slashdotter could learn in about an hour or less from the aircrack-ng site.
"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in--an interesting hole I find myself in--fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'"
6 million dollars. Artificial legs and eye are on the way.
The bill of rights only applies to government, not private employers. The only issue raised in the article is whether such a rule would abridge a statutory (not constitutional) right for employees to meet for purposes of possibly forming a union. When a private employer says you can't hang out with co-workers after hours, no Constitutional violation occurs.
A lot of posters seem to be under the mistaken impression that their bosses have to have a good reason to fire them. In most states, like my home state of Florida, a private employer can fire you for any reason that is not expressly illegal, such as a discriminatory reason under Title VII or a violation of a whistleblower or workers' compensation law. Only government employees or those with employment contracts receive extra protection. This means that you can be legally fired for plently of bad reasons, such as "I don't like your hair style" or "I just don't like you." The fact that your employer can fire you for hanging out with co-workers off-hours falls under the "bad, but not illegal" category. And before you say "what about my freedom of assembly?" realize that the Constitution only places limits on the government's ability to mess with your life, not your employer's.