The wireless traffic of MIT students. by Jessica McKellar.
Wireless traffic is both interesting and delightfully accessible thanks to the broadcast nature of 802.11. I have spent many a lazy weekend afternoon watching my laptop, the Tivo, and the router chatting away in a Wireshark window. As fun as the wireless traffic in one’s house may be, there’s something to be said for being able to observe a much larger ecosystem – one with more people with a more diverse set of operating systems, browsers, and intentions as they work on their wireless-enabled devices, giving rise to more interesting background and active traffic patterns and a greater set of protocols in play. Now, it happens to be the case that sniffing other people’s wireless traffic breaks a number of federal and local laws, including wiretapping laws, and while I am interested in observing other people’s wireless traffic, I’m not interested in breaking the law. Fortunately, Ksplice is down the road from a wonderful school that fosters this kind of intellectual curiosity. http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/05/the-wireless-traffic-of-mit-students/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
