On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2004 at 8:29, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> > Looking out of my fifth floor window I can connect to ~20
> > 802.x nets *without* directional antennas or high powered
> > cards. With extra gear, I can hit almost 50, and in both
> > cases, roughly
At 06:01 PM 12/11/04 +, Justin wrote:
>On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>> Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less
>> administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex. It needs a
simple
>> luser interface and something to piggyback servers on.
>
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On 10 Dec 2004 at 21:47, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> Wardriving is also basically dead. Sure there are a handful
> of people that do it, but the number is so small as to be
> irrelevant.
I regularly use the internet through other people's unprotected
wireless networks, simply for convenience
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:17:32AM -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost
> all of downtown is covered by free wireless.
I wonder how much of it is deliberate. I run my AP open for any passerby, and
expect similiar in return when I pas
At 12:01 AM 12/13/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Interestingly, I don't
>know of anyone who still actively wardrives at random (as opposed to
>against specific targets) for this same reason.
I've met some people this year who war-fly SoCal: a cessna, laptop, and
regular dipole
suffices, and a GP
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On 11 Dec 2004 at 8:29, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> Looking out of my fifth floor window I can connect to ~20
> 802.x nets *without* directional antennas or high powered
> cards. With extra gear, I can hit almost 50, and in both
> cases, roughly a third are completely open, another third are
>
On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
> At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> >Now we're back to the MixMaster argument. Mixmaster was meant to be a
> >"Napster-level popular app" for emailing, but people just don't care
> >about anonymity.
>
> Mixmaster is the m
At 10:08 AM 12/11/2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Justin wrote:
> Not necessarily. Mixmaster is trivial to use with Mutt.
>
> 1. Compile Mixmaster
.
You just made my case for me. Joe Sixpack will not wtf you are talking
about. Hell, half the RedHat users won't know either ("
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Justin wrote:
> Not necessarily. Mixmaster is trivial to use with Mutt.
>
> 1. Compile Mixmaster
> 2. Put the binary in some directory somewhere.
> 3. Configure Mutt with --with-mixmaster (sadly not enabled by default)
> 4. add the line 'set mixmaster="/location/to/bin/mixm
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less
administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex.
It needs a simple luser interface and something
to piggyback servers on.
Mixminion is a little better, but needs more market penetration and
still has no
At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
>> If the Klan doesn't have
>> a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will
>> survive?
>
>Well besides the misinterprettaion of the ruling, which I will ignore,
what
>makes you think MixMaster isn't already dead?
OK, substitute
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> Joseph Ashwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I regularly drive down through Los Angeles, when I have stopped
> > for gas or food and checked I rarely see an unprotected network.
>
> This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost
Joseph Ashwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I regularly drive down through Los Angeles, when I have stopped
> for gas or food and checked I rarely see an unprotected network.
This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost
all of downtown is covered by free wireless.
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R
At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
>Wardriving is also basically dead.
On the contrary. A recent article (zdnet IIRC) described a non-hacker
visiting his father, and using a neighbor's connection accidentally.
This is very common. My own non-tech father regularly finds
other nets
- Original Message -
From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
If the Klan doesn't have
a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will
surv
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