Cool to see local coverage of "recent technology" breakthroughs... handy for those who aren't in the digital realm, anyway! but the mass media has simply been increasingly irritating since I've been pretty submerged in digital news. I am on a few cool lists, and when I have the opportunity to keep up with them, I get the goods even before it breaks onto slash for most issues! I love that. Not that the newspaper is going to 'die' anytime soon, but they're just further and further behind, as more people start to use tools like AvantGo and the like, from blogs to slash-sites.
USB: I'm not so sure how the real-world tests would pan out; I do like that USB can provide some power as well as data (have enjoyed mame using a laptop-driven USB hub and 2 controllers, where the laptop only has one USB port) Yes it's a better serial port, but still just a serial port. Nice to see better devices like wireless NIC's, etherNIC's, and even TV tuners available for USB. There have been a bunch of 'tempest' or spying techniques in the nerd news lately: via LED's as RG noticed: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/06/122122%204 via Indirect Monitor Light: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/09/199242 via AM radio (last November): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/26/2353252 another kind of spying altogether: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=spyware Incidentally, the PDF paper about LED-packet reconstruction is quite good, and explains that a certain *class* of devices has the transmit/receive data indicators, like external modems and common routers and switches. They go on to say that it basically works nicely up to around 10mbps, where the LED's stop keeping up with the bits : ) On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 11:00, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > Today there are a couple of good articles in the tech section of the RG. One > is about the new USB (did you know that usb 1 was faster than 10BT?), the New > USB (2.0) has a trasfer rate upto 480 Mbs, which is faster than firewire! > > There is also an interesting article about (and this sounds a bit far fetched > to me, but not impossible...) reading the led's on modems and network devices > to gleen that data that is transfered! It sounds impossible, but aparently a > fellow named Joe Loughry has figured out a way to see what your doing on your > network, or dialup connection by using a device with a lens to read your > LED's. I guess a roll of duct tape or pvc tape is required for your network > security tool box! > > Jamie > -- -- Ben Barrett Software & Systems Engineer counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193
