Posts by expreg

Re: Invented?

TCP/IP, ethernet, BGP, the list goes on... And it's debatable that packet switching is a British invention, since an American theorized it independently (and before Davies), and is also credited with its implementation in the ARPANET (alongside Davies).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kahn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe

It was ARPA's research and funding that made the foundation of the modern (non-http) internet... though certainly the whole set of technologies is a worldwide effort with geniuses from all of the world (notably from the UK!) making it all possible with novel and brilliant ideas.

Re: whats this crap?

Can you provide evidence of this? I see this, but nobody has provided a link. Aside from that image of maybe-the-NSA maybe installing chips in maybe intercepted Cisco gear, is there solid evidence of Cisco, knowingly, installing backdoors in their equipment at the behest of the NSA/CIA? Or is it all speculation, just like Huawei and the CPC?

I have no doubt either company has at some point conceded to the powers at be, but regardless.

Re: laws of this nature need to be enacted by U.S. Congress

Your congress failed to do just that. So now the states are trying to pick up the slack.

Re: Generation Z?

Millennial are Gen Y. Not Gen Z.

Re: Actually seems to make things more complicated

That information is part of what makes something Wi-Fi Certified. You'll be able to associate "Wi-Fi 6" with a set list of supported features. If it's not Wi-Fi Certified, it cannot (I mean, people will do it anyway) be labeled with their logo or naming scheme.

Re: Give and Take

Likely to change now with Project Treble and Android One. Although if you had a Nexus (or now, I suppose, a Pixel) you would get updates every month.

Re: Why me?

Uh, what? Troy Hunt does not run any password manager companies, nor does he sell them. He advertises 1Password as that is one he uses personally and they've implemented his service into the extension. You can find his blog online, easily.

Re: CCIE Opinion for those who care

Thank you!

Re: Tech Savvy Millenials

"None of them..."

An absurd comment, but the argument has already been stated.

I'm definitely tired of hearing "He's a kid, they're geniuses with computers!" though. Of course, that's being thrown on to Gen Z now as well. "I let my son fix it, he's good with computers" is usually an ominous warning of things to come.

Re: Oh dear.

They can copy your network SSID and create an "Evil Twin." Then spam you with deauth frames, and then spam you with broadcast advertisements carrying that SSID. I've done it at home for shits and giggles (to my own devices, obviously).

Someone mentioned the Wi-Fi Pineapple which has all of this built in. It's easy to do without one.

Protected Management Frames (802.11w) can protect against the deauth spam, but I'm not sure many home telco routers use that.

But yeah, I turned off auto-fill ages ago.

Re: How to increase suspicion

It might terrify you to know, then, that many of the internet's open standards and protocols were written by engineers work for many big tech companies. They have the money to fund the research. IETF is run by volunteers, it's non-profit.

Sue the office supply store. All of those pens are responsible for this!