Archive for the 'Security' Category

Steal This Wi-Fi

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Here’s a bit of great commentary from Bruce Schneier about why you shouldn’t password protect your wireless network at home.

Reverse Engineering Skype

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

It brings me an immense amount of pleasure to see that someone has de-obfuscated and reverse-engineered skype [PDF]. It describes how to detect and block skype traffic, in addition to how to find and screw with the network control elements. We can only hope that someone takes this a step further, and writes bridges between the skype network and real VOIP networks.