I’m giving a workshop next week in Utah titled “Setting up Wireless Access in Your Library” and of course, one of the topics covered will be security issues. In preparation I’m playing with some very interesting software including Ethereal. To keep it non-technical, Ethereal allows anyone to sniff, trap, and save network data, including data being transmitted over the air via WiFi connections. As a test, I connected to an open WiFi access point, started a capture, and logged into my flickr account. I then stopped the capture and saved 2.25MB worth of data (about 45 seconds worth of surfing). Look what I found when I searched the data for the word “password”:
I’ve obscured my password for obvious reasons but I’m sure you still get the point. So, who wants to log into their bank account from a Starbucks?
Ah, the day before Thanksgiving. A day when most of the office is out of the building, the phone isn’t ringing, and little e-mail is coming in. It’s so slow, I’m actually totally caught up with my office e-mail.
The Yorba Linda Public Library has lists of the “most recently checked-in items updated every hour” and “top 10 Most requested items from our catalog” on their homepage. Great features! (Now, if they’d just get rid of the table-based layout and not embed their CSS in the middle of the markup…)
Thanks Rosario
I’d mentioned this video to a few people over the past few weeks and assumed someone else had already uploaded it to YouTube. I looked this morning and I couldn’t find it so I uploaded my copy (after I converted the 101MB .mpg file (1MB over the upload limit) to a 17MB .wmv file, and crossed my fingers that the 10m 13s video would be allowed since the official length limit is 10m).
I saw Casino Royale on Saturday and loved it. Now I want to go back and watch all the DVDs again, in order this time. The one comment I did make during the opening credits was “where’s the naked women in silhouette?” Well, it seems that it slipped my memory that the first film, Dr. No didn’t have any women, naked or otherwise, in it either. Anyway, this is all a lead up to the following YouTube collection of all 21 James Bond opening credit sequences. Enjoy.
