Think again. Near zero is an over-estimation. Unless you live nextdoor to the NSA*, and they happen to need free wifi, then there is absolutely no reason that you need anything more than WPA2. All you are doing is wasting your own time. Nobody elses.
*Not like MAC filtering would faze the NSA in the slightest...
What exactly do you think the likelyhood of someone cracking a WPA2 network is? If someone is actually able to get through WPA2, they won't even blink at MAC filtering. Well, maybe they'll laugh..
Wow, talk about completely missing the entire point of this article. You honestly think government mandated poison is a good idea? You are one sick fuck.
That is poor advice because all it does is create the illusion of security. Actually good advice would be "just use wpa2, or wpa-aes". If you use proper security with your wifi network then there is no need for child's play games like that.
He says "on any torrent site". If he means to say that he has never been to one of the public trackers, then that is a very misleading statement. I'd be like me saying "I've never seen someone eat spaghetti in Italy", because I've never been to Italy.
Notably absent from your list of unrealistic things in that movie is the actual hacking that it portrayed (you know, the stuff this conversation is actually about...). The movie was fairly realistic in depicting wardialing, the time/research required in hacking, and password guessing. Very rarely do movies get anywhere close to that much right.
No, and this is a perfect example of why that quote is absolutely bullshit. If everybody followed it then nobody would have stopped the Nazis because every country involved has invaded others and committed crimes against humanity at one point in their past. (with apologies to godwin)
WTF are you talking about? Cellphones do indeed use electromagnetic radiation, they're not beta or alpha emitters. Now, electromagnetic radiation at high enough powers can be damaging, but cellphones are completely safe. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a certified loon.
I don't think this is true at all. Movies like Wargames manage to be decently realistic (at least not offensively unrealistic) and not boring at all. Best part of that movie is when he has to spend time researching his target.
Nonsense, I actually love museums and history in general. What is so great about history is the signal to noise ratio is much higher than the present. Not every single bit of information is really worth the effort to save, and if we try to then we'll just be left with an unweildly ammount of information that nobody will ever bother accessing.
Why in the world would anyone in the future care about a website that barely even stuck around for a month. Anything of significance will either stick around, or be archived by others who find it significant.
Also, that average seems absurdly low, are they counting in dynamically generated pages that exist only as long as they are viewed or something?
Those games (at least starcraft, I've never heard of the others) are not open source. The Quake 3 engine is. That is one of the benifits to open sourcing your old engines like iD does, your games will get ported to every platform in existance that can even remotely handle them.
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Think again. Near zero is an over-estimation. Unless you live nextdoor to the NSA*, and they happen to need free wifi, then there is absolutely no reason that you need anything more than WPA2. All you are doing is wasting your own time. Nobody elses.
*Not like MAC filtering would faze the NSA in the slightest...
Clearly you have not seen Al Gore's movie.
I should also point out that if that were true, at least 3 of my neighbours should have won the lottery by now...
What exactly do you think the likelyhood of someone cracking a WPA2 network is? If someone is actually able to get through WPA2, they won't even blink at MAC filtering. Well, maybe they'll laugh..
Wow, talk about completely missing the entire point of this article. You honestly think government mandated poison is a good idea? You are one sick fuck.
That is poor advice because all it does is create the illusion of security. Actually good advice would be "just use wpa2, or wpa-aes". If you use proper security with your wifi network then there is no need for child's play games like that.
He says "on any torrent site". If he means to say that he has never been to one of the public trackers, then that is a very misleading statement. I'd be like me saying "I've never seen someone eat spaghetti in Italy", because I've never been to Italy.
New freezers should not do this. I'm not sure how it's done but they self-defrost. I guess they have some sort of dehumidifier or something, not sure.
Dude, don't forget stop and smell the roses. Not everything in life is supposed to be a race.
Notably absent from your list of unrealistic things in that movie is the actual hacking that it portrayed (you know, the stuff this conversation is actually about...). The movie was fairly realistic in depicting wardialing, the time/research required in hacking, and password guessing. Very rarely do movies get anywhere close to that much right.
Do you actually think any of these people care about their feelings?
When you are using software like this, there can no longer be any concept of "doing it right".
No, and this is a perfect example of why that quote is absolutely bullshit. If everybody followed it then nobody would have stopped the Nazis because every country involved has invaded others and committed crimes against humanity at one point in their past. (with apologies to godwin)
Those are the sorts of people you don't need to lie and use deceptive advertising to hook.
Then he is a tasteless idiot?
That's like using the LOC count of a disassembled program written in C to express the size of the original code.
and:
!atomic != !safe
What is your point?
WTF are you talking about? Cellphones do indeed use electromagnetic radiation, they're not beta or alpha emitters. Now, electromagnetic radiation at high enough powers can be damaging, but cellphones are completely safe. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a certified loon.
That's fine and dandy, but it's still not news for nerds.
I don't think this is true at all. Movies like Wargames manage to be decently realistic (at least not offensively unrealistic) and not boring at all. Best part of that movie is when he has to spend time researching his target.
Who the hell says we can't do that as well? But seeing as NASA does space, lets let them keep on doing space.
It's not exactly like NASA's budget is so huge that we can't afford to do anything else.
Nonsense, I actually love museums and history in general. What is so great about history is the signal to noise ratio is much higher than the present. Not every single bit of information is really worth the effort to save, and if we try to then we'll just be left with an unweildly ammount of information that nobody will ever bother accessing.
Why in the world would anyone in the future care about a website that barely even stuck around for a month. Anything of significance will either stick around, or be archived by others who find it significant.
Also, that average seems absurdly low, are they counting in dynamically generated pages that exist only as long as they are viewed or something?
Those games (at least starcraft, I've never heard of the others) are not open source. The Quake 3 engine is. That is one of the benifits to open sourcing your old engines like iD does, your games will get ported to every platform in existance that can even remotely handle them.
If your system's main security consideration is "Now how would a hacker abuse that?", then you should expect only the worst.