Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network

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From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject	Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network
Date	Wed, 21 May 2014 18:58:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-05-21, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
>> Check at the bottom for the explosion of tech sites commenting on it.
>> The Internet is soon to collapse under the weight of its own
>> comments.
>
> Hasn't happened quite yet, though I noted during the media frenzy over
> Heartbleed that many were simply copying or paraphrasing what was said
> elsewhere without putting much, or even any, thought into it.
>

Interesting, I hadn't noted the date.  HackerNews just picked this up
and has been working itself up into a tizzy.  It annoys me when blogged
writing doesn't make the date obvious, but I didn't pay close attention
when I read it either, going straight to the body of the article.

As for serving my guests a hot cup of tea, that might be true, but my
unwanted guests I serve a nice steaming cup of get-the-hell-out, and the
same goes for my wifi router, whose password I change regularly, just in
case.

There are some funny hacks out there for trespassers on your wireless
router, like routing all HTML requests through a proxy server scripted
to serve all images at a horrid resolution for example, or upside down,
or simply serve the same JPG of something unpleasant no matter which
image is requested for a page.  Fun times.

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Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-20 12:33 +0000
  Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-05-20 07:07 -0700
    Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-20 16:58 +0000
    Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-20 21:56 +0000
      Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-05-20 15:44 -0700
  Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-21 09:09 +0200
    Re: Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-21 18:58 +0000

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