Recent content by MekoSuka

Self Service Portals can help with curbing this behavior. Offering an option which doesn't require them to constantly get IT involved is something many users will accept as a happy balance. So does enforcement of company usage and password policies. I realize there are always people who are...

There's a little more to it than that: (Room 641A) Even when your traffic crosses oceans. USS Jimmy Carter Encryption does add a step as you mention, but the NSA is everywhere, directly on the wire ... capturing and storing information. It's likely it's all being decrypted out of band...

To pile onto this comment, if you do business outside of the US with a company that has US infrastructure, your information potentially could be accessed under the Patriot Act. For some fun reading, Google U.S.A. Patriot Act MS Office 365

+1 for mentioning this.

If its important to someone to have multi-device access to a network port, its a question that should be asked before the student enrolls at the school. Always ask questions beforehand. If you don't like policy, you can always go some place else that doesn't have the same or similar policy...

I think you need to pump the brakes a little bit. Without all of the details as to 'why' the policy is even in place, your comment is more ignorance than a noble attempt at protecting student rights. There are plenty of reasons behind why a policy such as this might exist. For that reason...

Just a couple of suggestions that might be helpful. I would run another ping test from a Linux box using the -f switch to flood the channel. You'll get more realistic RTTs and better results in troubleshooting. You can use something like iperf to test bandwidth speeds across the entire...

It looks like you know which direction you're already going to take, but I'll add a couple of extra points for anyone who comes across this thread in the future. Wireless in general is a little less reliable as there are lot of different things, both physical, and logical, that can impact its...

This argument is pointless. Plenty of successful shops run both Windows and Linux. That's not to say one is better than the other. Each fits a need. However, to say no serious guy is running a Windows web server is an ignorant comment. There are plenty of companies with thousands of users...

Yea, this is why I find myself more and more modifying the user-agent string to get around some of the better encrypted sites. Since STS isn't fully deployed everywhere and since many of the mobile versions of sites are typically the weakest link, this still serves a purpose. *Disclaimer: I...

I believe that you're still susceptible if you're first hitting an http site and then being redirected to SSL due to sslstrip's ability to mod headers. Also, isn't the only difference with STS in play and someone is running sslstrip, that the browser goes back to throwing a certificate error...

You are partially correct. You can break the SSL connection unannounced to the user and even alter the content of the page in the process thereby deceiving said user. Search for SSLStrip and find the Blackhat presentation (*Thought it was Defcon --edited) from 2009. Actually, here it is ...

This was posted a week ago ... NSA Tracks Google Ads and Schneier wrote this on the 7th: Bruce Schneier

TOR can be very effective at hiding ones internet communications. The FBI and NSA have had only a modicum of success in tracking most individuals who use it. The difference with Silk Road was that they setup shop within the network, and as others have mentioned here processed transactions for...

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