Posts by Dave Wray 45 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Apr 2008
When you crack the WPS passcode, you are provided with the WPA(2) encryption key. As a result, you are sitting on the WiFi network the same as any other device. From there on in you can start attacking the devices as you would a wired network, sniff traffic (depending on network config), etc etc.
That's fair enough. But you *can* recognise that TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 exist and test each of them properly. Not merely make a test for TLS 1.0 that fails over if BEAST mitigation has disabled TLS 1.0. Likewise, you can recognise the fact that a lot of STARTTLS based protocols also utilise OpenSSL and support those to.
Something a lot of the tests have failed to do.
I wish this was unique to Heartbleed. The BEAST detection scripts are often completely inaccurate, as are SSL weak ciphers, SSLv2. I could go on. I find false positives/negatives in these on a daily basis. The level of accuracy from even the best vulnerability scanners is, unfortunately, often woeful.
It would be nice if we could have a slither...
2.4GHz is congested as hell, 5.8GHz has the worse building penetration ever, and we don't even get the 433MHz or 900Mhz that our European and American peers get. 868Mhz has got a crappy 10% duty cycle on it.... The list goes on.
Hardly encouraging innovation is it?
Modern Science seems to be too busy playing the PR game to do any real Science. If your job is to relay information to the wider public, you need to check that the information you release is accurate, or at least has reasonable backing.
The fact that this could have been double checked behind closed doors before any front-page tabloid claims were made makes me ignore scientific claims a little more each and every day.
Paris, because I'd much rather see her on our front-pages than the latest half arsed Cancer/Health/Science/Environmental story that will be contradicted in a few months.
Unless of course you put a timestamp in the encrypted GPS data and then bang! Compare the delayed packet to the onboard clock and you can, from 500 miles, in the dark, spot such an attack. Blinfolded.
Come on, that's not really any newer than IPv4 sequence numbers! Where you been the last forty years?
IMUs don't have that functionality. If they did, you woudn't need GPS!
An IMU basically deals with the question of "at what angle is the aircraft in relation to the ground" it's just a bunch of gyros, accelerometers and a compass. It knows if the aircraft is level, pointing up etc, but needs the GPS to tell it where it is.
In 1997, Apple didn't have the Ipod, the Iphone or the Ianything worth having. They had Ifuckall apart from a loss making company selling obscure devices in graphics and eduction.
Michael Dell was right. Apple's fortune was completely out of the blue (not neccessarily luck, but not predictable either) or the share price wouldn't have risen 150% in the year following the first IPod.
Apple have done well, but the only logical decision looking at a 1997 balance sheet was pull the bleedin plug and fast.
Bullshit. The IPad is one of the most standardised devices you can possibly run this cr-app on. There sre no obscure video drivers, network drivers, or other things to worry about ala Windows world. This issue is affecting most if not all IPad users:
"although it admits many have reported problems to the BBC iPlayer message "
It just couldn't be bothered.........
1. Gps guidance is now a £200 addition to most planes. Plot course in Google Earth, upload and go. No need to worry about Rc range (ignoring legalities). Telemtry downlink et all, COTS.
2. A ceiling altitude is not an operational altitude. This thing could work at 500 feet quite happily. Granted 22k seems rather optimistic.
3. At least for WPA PSK you get the handshake and can perform an offline dictionary attack after landing. No need to be in the air for the duration.
4. Thousands of RC pilots all overthe world fly video systems with no interference at all. The 35Mhz frequency is dead and we are on 2.4 ghz with 80 channels frequency hopping every 2ms.
Look on the bright side though, the antiques roadshow might take you on with your planes, Pops..
Gary,
1. I believe the plane has an autopilot which locks the plane in a circle over the target Without any input from the pilot. Checkout www.diydrones.com for more info on these.
2. Hovering a helicopter for a length of time is no mean feet and requires far mre pilot effort than circling a fixed wing plane.
3. Fixed wing aircraft tend to have far greater flight duration.
In short, no, it shouldnt be a helicopter...
Is this the Nokia ive suffered for the last decade?
Nokia's phones are shite. Simple. They have zero build quality, the firmware has bugs a 12 year old would by ashamed of and they exhasperate the issue by trying to manage a range of 183 phones while getting properly shafted by one.
The phone in my pocket? A Nokia! Till I upgrade to a BB in a few months. My current BB (email only) has outseen four shiteias easily.
The end
"Powerline networking, which uses ubiquitous home electrical wiring as a pipeline for data, has had a hard time winning popular support."
So why does El Reg keep on about the bleedin stuff? We don't care, they are commodity items. It's only the Radio Hams that give a sh*t cos it screws with their play time!
What a crock of sh*t.
What the NHS need is to stop investing in ridiculuous multi-billion pound EDS failures that expensively reinvent the wheel (webmail as an example) and go firmly back to basics.
Clean wards please, a team to crack down on MRSA please, an A&E bed not covered in faeces, cancer drugs when I need them, not HD, 3D, 5.1 surround sound x-ray machines that help in a minority of cases.
"The new model has to be the most likely candidate for these enhancements."
Well lets have a kit kat and a ponder shall we. These features aren't in any current model, they have been promised, so yes, I'd have to agree the next model out is certainly the most likely candidate for them, compared to the ones that are already out and err, don't.
Thanks for that, I'd never have got there myself.
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