Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students 218
An anonymous reader writes "Someone got permission to sniff the wireless traffic during an MIT class. The professor: none other than Robert Morris, creator of the first Internet worm! The lecture: computer security! I love it."
Get Your Facts CORRECT ! : +2, Prior Art (Score:2, Informative)
You state:
"Robert Morris, creator of the first internet worm!"
You are obviously unaware of The “worm” programs—early experience with a distributed computation [acm.org]
I hope this helps your reference callouts.
Yours In Akademgorodok,
Kilgore Trout, C.I.O.
Re:Laptop Useage in Class? (Score:5, Informative)
I haven't been to university for 9 years, but are students really using laptops during class???
Laptops, netbooks, smart phones, tablets... Yup.
In theory they're typing notes or recording the lecture or something.
In practice, I suspect it is more of a distraction than anything else.
Re:Laptop Useage in Class? (Score:2, Informative)
it was also to disguise the fact that i was writing video games in my intro to computer architecture classes
Re:Laptop Useage in Class? (Score:2, Informative)
Speaking for myself, I find them a good distraction during mandatory classes with professors I have already discovered can't teach whatsoever and I am better off reading the book (and sometimes I do that instead of use a laptop). For those who can though, I never do.
At least at my uni you can usually tell how respected the professor is by how many laptops/iPhones/random gadgets are being used in-class.
Re:Famous WoW Guild Facebook (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Thank you, Apple (Score:5, Informative)
On the other hand, Zeroconf was basically invented by Stuart Cheshire [stuartcheshire.org], who works for Apple (and invented the tank game Bolo, another good way to waste network bandwidth).
Re:hmm (Score:3, Informative)
Not sure where you're from, but just an FYI... In many states, it is legal for one party of the conversation to record a phone line without the permission of the other. However, some states are "Two Party Notification States". [wikipedia.org]
Re:Laptop Useage in Class? (Score:1, Informative)
As a grad student, I can tell you that laptops are a distraction generally. There are a few students who can use them responsibly, but the majority play games—anything from wasting time with solitaire to wasting their parents' money in online poker. Some sit there and Facebook or IM friends. These are grad students, too... the same ones who like to boast about being more responsible than undergrads. I've never seen any of my colleagues use their laptops to take notes.
Re:hmm (Score:4, Informative)
Don't egg anyone on. It raises you to "willful participant" status.
Had it escalated to a physical confrontation you may have had trouble claiming self defense.
You always want to remain a "reluctant participant".
Re:Thank you, Apple (Score:3, Informative)
Bolo, another good way to waste network bandwidth).
Bolo is not a waste of network bandwidth, with it's ring communication it is very light on on the bandwidth latency was always the problem.
Re:Thank you, Apple (Score:1, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes [wikipedia.org]