Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students

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."

Thank you, Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

Highest number of packets: MDNS (Multicast-DNS, Zeroconf) with a whopping 30% of all packets. Because computer Barbie says: Configuration is hard.

Re:Laptop Useage in Class?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, you could say that : http://edc.carleton.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/1480737317_0d5042886b1.jpg

Re:Thank you, Apple

[ThrowAwaySociety]

Highest number of packets: MDNS (Multicast-DNS, Zeroconf) with a whopping 30% of all packets. Because computer Barbie says: Configuration is hard.

*rolls eyes* Yeah, what's with kids these days and their automagical service discovery.

Back in my day, we manually entered protocol names and IP addresses. Forget zeroconf, we didn't have DNS. We kept a list of IP addresses in a text file on our systems. And if we didn't know the IP address, we went out and walked over to the datacenter, uphill, both ways, in the snow, and we wrote it down using our own blood for ink so we wouldn't forget it.

And we liked it that way!

Re:Thank you, Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

> I thought AIM was for 13 year old girls and pedophiles.

Mmmm 13 year old girls...
um, wait, what is this about?

It beats sniffing MIT students

[RandomUsername99]

It beats sniffing MIT students. Trust me.

Re:Thank you, Apple

[hoggoth]

I don't there there are many 13 year old girls at MIT. Draw your own conclusions.

Re:Money well spent

[Reason58]

There is a lot to be said for work ethic. Trust me, I know. I'm posting this from work.

Re:Thank you, Apple

[natehoy]

Now get the hell off my LAN! :)

Nothing new at MIT

[JelloJoe]

Nothing new here. The same thing was done in 2005 when I was in the class. It was done by the professor himself and the next day he was able to display the IM conversation two kids were having in the class. One end was encrypted so he didn't think he could be caught, but the other end was not, so the prof was able to display the chat. Basically the chat had something to do about how bored the student was. It was quite amusing.

Re:It's not uncommon...

[rgviza]

At my school (ASU), after sniffing one lecture, I threw up a little in my mouth. Damned sweaty bohemians that think a magic crystal works as deodorant. Not in Arizona heat...

Re:Thank you, Apple

[tsm_sf]

Well in all fairness if the token happens to fall out you can spend hours looking for it.

Billable hours.

Asteroid?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pose much of a challenge - shooting a single asteroid?

I'd rather pick my bellybutton, but to each their own..