Evi has been my closest contact at CU over the years. She was always a good friend and administered the scholarship I set up there. I am very sad but hoping to hear good news from my NZ friends. Evi was a very important person when it comes to Unix and Internet routing.

If you're serious about finding work, try moving to a state that's (mostly) the opposite political persuasion. It's never black and white, so you'll quickly find you have natural allies against the common enemy.

Oh, and quit reading slashdot cold turkey. That's part of your problem.

Re; "article must be a joke" ...

You must be new here.

Now to say something more helpful: good luck getting the vendor to agree to anything. The equipment has been sold, signed, and delivered. Whatever contract was put in place by the CEO over golf, that's what you get to try and work with.

But is it worth turning into a BOFH just to screw the manufacturing guys?

If the problem is really as bad as it sounds, maybe it's time to start looking for another job.

It's good to hear some real-world experiences.

I honestly thought we'd end up focusing on what a "Tat" is, and how big a "Google's Tit" is, this being slashdot and all.

Time to think about college choices...

Maybe we should only buy machines listed on coreboot.org

Breaking the encryption offline:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cloud+wpa+cracker

Undersea cable tap:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Operation+Ivy+Bells

Listening in a government facility is done passively. Your arp flood would be noticed, yup.

Examples of snooping that lack the ability to do a MITM attack:

1. Listening to an encrypted wifi session, then breaking the encryption offline

2. Tapping into undersea fiber (the listening party is going to have a hard enough time exfiltrating the snooped bytes; setting up a "take over" command and associated equipment is prohibitive due to both the technical and political risks)

3. Listening device inside a government facility. China famously does this for example by using a small office-supply firm to get equipment into a US facility somewhere is Asia; the copy machine has a hard drive like any copy machine and there's nothing suspicious about that, right? And then you find the second, and the third, and the fourth hard drive hidden in places you would never look. The data is exfiltrated only when the machine is replaced as part of a regular service contract.
Need I go on?

How does this deflect spam? Unless user accounts were getting hijacked just to add a POP3 server I fail to see how this helps.

Give it up, recoiledsnake, probably a troll and you do not understand this stuff, writing retarded anti-BMO stuff and calling people karmawhores. It's useless as trying to explain why what you say in reply is wrong.

Please join us on coreboot.org. We especially need more laptops.

Ok. But there aren't very many AAA open source games. How do we go about changing that?

Games still tend to be locked to Windows (annoying, I know), so here's hoping AMD stays alive long enough for Valve to port Steam Linux to ARM.

I'm a technical person. To quote you: "I'm not really that bothered" that someone like you doesn't believe that I am.

Why should I have to ask Microsoft for permission to create my linux distro? You are pretty ignorant to think that this is not important.

What Linux distro do you prefer?

Not trying to flame here, just would love another data point.