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Snooping WiFi for useful tidbits

04-Mar-07

There are many interesting little bits of data your computer broadcasts to the network, especially when it first starts up. Putting some of these bits together can reveal information about what WiFi access points you’ve connected to in the past, the last IP address you had from DHCP, your default network shares that you connect [...]

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Unwanted Internet Traffic

24-Feb-07

The Internet Architecture Board has published a draft report, detailing the findings from the workshop on Unwanted Internet Traffic, held last year. The workshop was intended to bring together all the relevant Internet communities who could help deal with problems like DDoS attacks, spam, phishing, and other sources of undesirable network activity. Several hard questions [...]

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