January 7, 2011
by sjvn01
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A major pain point for Linux desktop users over the years has been a lack of Wi-Fi chipset support. That’s been changing for the better over the last few years, but I still find it a little amazing that on … Continue reading
January 6, 2011
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The biggest technology news this week didn’t come from CES in Las Vegas. No, the biggest news story was that Qualcomm, a major mobile phone radio silicon player, is buying Atheros, one of the leading lights of Wi-Fi silicon. Put … Continue reading
November 26, 2010
by sjvn01
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Firesheep, the all too easy-to-use Web snooping tool, continues to expose the disaster that is modern Web site security. Sooner or later, a lot of people are going to lose a lot of valuable information to hackers using Firesheep and … Continue reading
November 9, 2010
by sjvn01
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Thanks to the Firefox plug-in Firesheep, anyone today can snoop on anyone else on the same network. Worst still, Firesheep enables any user to seamlessly hijack another user’s Web session. Programs are beginning to show up that will block Firesheep … Continue reading
November 1, 2010
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The more I think about Firesheep, the network packet sniffer for dummies, the more I realize that end-users are never going to be able to deal with the problems that it brings to the table. Sure, there are lots of … Continue reading
October 25, 2010
by sjvn01
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is one of those technologies that sounds like it makes sense, but then if you really think about using it in real life…. well then it doesn’t sound so great. The idea is simple. There are two ways you can … Continue reading