On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
> modem attached. Ricochets are cool - 128Kbps metropolitan area
They are also much faster than 128Kbps. That's nominal. They have been
known to transfer packets at 190Kbps. I would very much rather have
Ricochet than DSL or cable.
> the 2.4 kernel. Of course, the ricochet and its cable are nearly
> as big as the PictureBook, but it's still cool.
That's the stock Ricochet modem. Novatel is shipping a type II
PCMCIA Merlin for Ricochet right now for $300.
> listening to the presentation. A few minutes later a security guard
> came to him and asked whether he was a Cisco employee. Apparently the
> guard had seen his packets. He proved he was an employee, and told
> the guard he was able to connect to the building network without any
> encryption keys or even a network name. The guard went away. A
> computer security guy came. The security guy watched while the guy
> showed that he could access Cisco intranet stuff. Got very agitated
> at the gaping hole in their security. Presumably they will make some
> changes in that building.
Hilarious. What if he had been using an underWearable instead of a
laptop? They would have had to frisk everyone at the meeting to see who
was "packing heat".
-Chris
