The issue with WEP is that there are predictable packets where you can slowly derive information, and eventually obtain complete key recovery, and increasing the keylength only increases the difficulty LINEARLY, not exponentially.
Normally when you add a single bit, it doubles the time for brute force attacks. Instead of being TWICE as difficult when going from 40 to 41 bits, it's only 1/40'th more difficult.
You need to collect about 2GB of data to recover a 104 bit key, on the average.
Now... that all said, it's arguable that if you even use a 40 bit key that you are proclaiming your network PRIVATE, where unauthorized use is actually a criminal offense. In other words, any use of it requires actually attacking the network, not just turning on your computer, which typically meets or surpasses any implied consent requirements. You will discourage anyone that wants to "ethically" borrow wireless by setting a WEP key.
It's kind of like locking your screen door. It's easy to get past, but pretty obvious it's breaking and entering.
If you're interested in providing an open network but with a "I won't break your network or the law" agreement, check out NoCat.
Has anyone ever had a problem with the controller flying out of their hands? My gf once threw her cordless mouse at the wall when she died in a videogame. Seriously, it damaged the wall. I'd rather coat her mouse in superglue instead of rubber. I'd submit a page to/., but my server will also go rubber-side up.
site is/.'ed, but making something easier to use in the hand is not exactly a stunning new discovery. Look at shaped mice and sculpted keycaps, for instance.
Does this remind anyone of the Moties that modified the pistolgrips? Now THAT would be a mod.
An early inventor probably sent out something like
"Hello, my name is Benjamin Franklin and I am an inventor. I used to have no patents and no respect as a scientist, but today I have over 500 patents including the Franklin Stove and the Electric Kite! Follow these instructions exactly and in 200 years, you'll have nearly 6 MILLION patents in your name!
1: Copy this letter 10 times and add your name to the top as a co-inventor 2: Make a unique modification to the invention at the bottom 3: Submit that to the patent office and send this letter to 10 friends
In 200 years we will have over 6,000,000 patents!"
The government obviously had to stop this somehow, and make it look like an accident.
Actually, the cops should be restricted to using laws designed for 1700's, not the 1960's. It's called "checks and balances" and is a fundamental concept to prevent the corruption of any particular branch of government.
Secondly, the Patriot Act is nothing more than streamlining the search warrant, wiretaps, and property seizure laws to bring them in line with modern technology.
The patriot act streamlines, only in as much as it removes essential checks and balances by different branches on the executive branch and allows them to bypass the judicial branch. If you think modern technology requires a corrupt and abusive executive power, then you win. But everyone loses when faced with the image of "jack-booted thugs."
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If cancer was cured, the pharmaceutical companies would be out of business.
They are more likely to be standing outside colleges offering $10.2M for curing the SYMPTOMS of cancer.
And compare athletes, which you claim do nothing for society, to movies. Do you pay for movies to derive anything of value (e.g. entertainment)? Do movies contribute to society more or less than athletes?
And the original poster you quoted, he's probably a pasty-faced geek sitting on his fat, spotted behind, casting judgements on what society does and doesn't need as he fires up a browser to surf more pr0n.
Not everyone happens to agree with the view that athletes contribute nothing and entertainment is worthless. In fact, most disagree because that's something that Americans spend the most money on.
AES does not pass muster with the most paranoid. Not yet.
There are attacks that have not been tested, and are undergoing some rigorous mathematical attacks now. I personally do not know the details, but it involves establishing a 1:1 mapping onto a finite field or reducing it to an algebraic cipher. One of my crypto friends is working on this right now.
AES was accepted by NIST before it was fully tested. I do not trust it, and I'm not even the most paranoid.
I just saw that the Federal Reserve in NY uses robots to store gold. No security check, nobody to sue when a ton of bricks drops on them.
In hospitals, they have to have more avoidance routines, but you could secure narcotics in a safe for delivery to wards and automatically track robot locations.
They're a great win. But have been around for a while.
Now, if they were in the shape of a giant penguin, I could see the relevance to slashdot!
Once the author introduced "sausage" into the discourse by this community reading his article, the fact that we see it repeated is only validation of Zipf's point.
In that case, his point was a wrong. His implication was that "sausage" would be unlikely to show up, whereas "music" would be very likely. So in fact, he was wrong simply because he stated the "word which we cannot say".
If I were a Star Trek computer, I would explode at this point from illogic.
You won't actually travel the whole 62k miles. You'll probably go to the highest orbits to toss out satellites or such. There is a lot of wasted cable.
It's not a penalty... they just price out their Internet with the assumption you already paid for the access with Cable TV. If you don't, then they have to cover that cost.
To cover what cost? To pay royalties to TV you don't watch or want? Sounds like a penalty to me.
If you're required to purchase anything that is wasted and unwanted, just to get the thing you want, it's a penalty (or a boondoggle). Many european restaurants separate out dining areas. American actually pay a penalty when they order food to go, yet object to paying a seating charge. It's kind of funny, that way.
DSL/phone is now required to be separated... what about cable-tv/cable-internet? Sounds like this was heavily lobbied by Comcast if you ask me.
The second method of causing distortion or a pattern just doesn't matter. People don't watch pirate copies for movie quality, they want to get the plot and often, the script. It's hard to transcribe something without a recording.
The IR method is useful, as almost all pocket movie recorders use CCD.
I still don't know why people lug in these cameras. Just get something like one of these or one of these.
Basically, only an idiot gets caught from such low tech detection (NVG, gimme a frikkin break).
It may come standard on 99.9%, but it's only used by 70%, vs 15% tinydns. Plus, the source is not available on 99.9% of the distributions -- it's almost always a binary. E.g, I have NEVER seen sun distribute the source to it in their distributions.
Lots of people would've eyeballed tinydns for bugs, which IIRC (and I might not), is not available in binaries. Plus, the security is guaranteed!
The djbdns security guarantee I offer $500 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns.
An obvious typo. 'q' is so damn close to 'n', at least in the middle-east. And the hostages were released minutes after Reagan's inaguration... It's not like he had time to send in the negotiators.
check out Wikipedia's take on it. It's not so far fetched, my right-wing friend. As I said earlier, politics are corrupt and brutal.
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The issue with WEP is that there are predictable packets where you can slowly derive information, and eventually obtain complete key recovery, and increasing the keylength only increases the difficulty LINEARLY, not exponentially.
Normally when you add a single bit, it doubles the time for brute force attacks. Instead of being TWICE as difficult when going from 40 to 41 bits, it's only 1/40'th more difficult.
You need to collect about 2GB of data to recover a 104 bit key, on the average.
Now... that all said, it's arguable that if you even use a 40 bit key that you are proclaiming your network PRIVATE, where unauthorized use is actually a criminal offense. In other words, any use of it requires actually attacking the network, not just turning on your computer, which typically meets or surpasses any implied consent requirements. You will discourage anyone that wants to "ethically" borrow wireless by setting a WEP key.
It's kind of like locking your screen door. It's easy to get past, but pretty obvious it's breaking and entering.
If you're interested in providing an open network but with a "I won't break your network or the law" agreement, check out NoCat.
Has anyone ever had a problem with the controller flying out of their hands? /., but my server will also go rubber-side up.
My gf once threw her cordless mouse at the wall when she died in a videogame. Seriously, it damaged the wall. I'd rather coat her mouse in superglue instead of rubber. I'd submit a page to
site is /.'ed, but making something easier to use in the hand is not exactly a stunning new discovery. Look at shaped mice and sculpted keycaps, for instance.
Does this remind anyone of the Moties that modified the pistolgrips? Now THAT would be a mod.
An early inventor probably sent out something like
"Hello, my name is Benjamin Franklin and I am an inventor. I used to have no patents and no respect as a scientist, but today I have over 500 patents including the Franklin Stove and the Electric Kite! Follow these instructions exactly and in 200 years, you'll have nearly 6 MILLION patents in your name!
1: Copy this letter 10 times and add your name to the top as a co-inventor
2: Make a unique modification to the invention at the bottom
3: Submit that to the patent office and send this letter to 10 friends
In 200 years we will have over 6,000,000 patents!"
The government obviously had to stop this somehow, and make it look like an accident.
It sped up my system so fast that my Blue screens of death turned into a RED Screens of Death!
Depends how high up you drop it from....
/. first, folks!
Most Linux systems crash just as fast, and just as often as Windows in this manner.
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Actually, the cops should be restricted to using laws designed for 1700's, not the 1960's. It's called "checks and balances" and is a fundamental concept to prevent the corruption of any particular branch of government.
Secondly, the Patriot Act is nothing more than streamlining the search warrant, wiretaps, and property seizure laws to bring them in line with modern technology.
The patriot act streamlines, only in as much as it removes essential checks and balances by different branches on the executive branch and allows them to bypass the judicial branch. If you think modern technology requires a corrupt and abusive executive power, then you win. But everyone loses when faced with the image of "jack-booted thugs."
... at her fenders?
or the spare tire?
That first pic is a testimony to the amazing powers of technology. Anybody else see the naked ebay guy in the reflection off the helmet?
I was one of the ones claiming that, as distasteful as it is, going after the individuals is the established proper method for protecting copyrights.
My viewpoint hasn't changed. What RIAA is doing is bullying schools with threats of lawsuits, even though the schools are not the violators.
They are lobbying congress to pass laws, using the false "poor us, the pirates have stolen our shoes!" philosophy. And legislators are believing them.
Sure would hate to see anything happen to it!
RIAA just hit their highest sales, despite these mobster tactics.
lying bastards.
If cancer was cured, the pharmaceutical companies would be out of business.
They are more likely to be standing outside colleges offering $10.2M for curing the SYMPTOMS of cancer.
And compare athletes, which you claim do nothing for society, to movies. Do you pay for movies to derive anything of value (e.g. entertainment)? Do movies contribute to society more or less than athletes?
And the original poster you quoted, he's probably a pasty-faced geek sitting on his fat, spotted behind, casting judgements on what society does and doesn't need as he fires up a browser to surf more pr0n.
Not everyone happens to agree with the view that athletes contribute nothing and entertainment is worthless. In fact, most disagree because that's something that Americans spend the most money on.
AES does not pass muster with the most paranoid. Not yet.
There are attacks that have not been tested, and are undergoing some rigorous mathematical attacks now. I personally do not know the details, but it involves establishing a 1:1 mapping onto a finite field or reducing it to an algebraic cipher. One of my crypto friends is working on this right now.
AES was accepted by NIST before it was fully tested. I do not trust it, and I'm not even the most paranoid.
More info here.
I just saw that the Federal Reserve in NY uses robots to store gold. No security check, nobody to sue when a ton of bricks drops on them.
In hospitals, they have to have more avoidance routines, but you could secure narcotics in a safe for delivery to wards and automatically track robot locations.
They're a great win. But have been around for a while.
Now, if they were in the shape of a giant penguin, I could see the relevance to slashdot!
Once the author introduced "sausage" into the discourse by this community reading his article, the fact that we see it repeated is only validation of Zipf's point.
In that case, his point was a wrong. His implication was that "sausage" would be unlikely to show up, whereas "music" would be very likely. So in fact, he was wrong simply because he stated the "word which we cannot say".
If I were a Star Trek computer, I would explode at this point from illogic.
You won't actually travel the whole 62k miles. You'll probably go to the highest orbits to toss out satellites or such. There is a lot of wasted cable.
that'll be the wait after pressing the UP button.
Imagine the jerk that presses the "close door" button as you're running.
Anything, if it'll get rid of that damn paper clip!
(doh, my OS is showing)
It's not a penalty... they just price out their Internet with the assumption you already paid for the access with Cable TV. If you don't, then they have to cover that cost.
To cover what cost? To pay royalties to TV you don't watch or want? Sounds like a penalty to me.
If you're required to purchase anything that is wasted and unwanted, just to get the thing you want, it's a penalty (or a boondoggle). Many european restaurants separate out dining areas. American actually pay a penalty when they order food to go, yet object to paying a seating charge. It's kind of funny, that way.
DSL/phone is now required to be separated... what about cable-tv/cable-internet? Sounds like this was heavily lobbied by Comcast if you ask me.
They're making the first Desktop Fusion Unit!
bah, second link didn't work... another eyeglass camera.
The second method of causing distortion or a pattern just doesn't matter. People don't watch pirate copies for movie quality, they want to get the plot and often, the script. It's hard to transcribe something without a recording.
The IR method is useful, as almost all pocket movie recorders use CCD.
I still don't know why people lug in these cameras. Just get something like one of these or one of these.
Basically, only an idiot gets caught from such low tech detection (NVG, gimme a frikkin break).
It may come standard on 99.9%, but it's only used by 70%, vs 15% tinydns. Plus, the source is not available on 99.9% of the distributions -- it's almost always a binary. E.g, I have NEVER seen sun distribute the source to it in their distributions.
Lots of people would've eyeballed tinydns for bugs, which IIRC (and I might not), is not available in binaries. Plus, the security is guaranteed!
The djbdns security guarantee
I offer $500 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns.
No, silly... a Tolkien Ring.
An obvious typo. 'q' is so damn close to 'n', at least in the middle-east. And the hostages were released minutes after Reagan's inaguration... It's not like he had time to send in the negotiators.
check out Wikipedia's take on it. It's not so far fetched, my right-wing friend. As I said earlier, politics are corrupt and brutal.