Re: Tutorial on Wireless packet sniffing

[Joey Peloquin <joeyp () cotse net>]

Doug McFarland wrote:
> If you don't like what your government is doing, get involved and force it
> to change or leave...It's great living in a free country now (Not the USA).

You mean now that the civil war is over and the rebuilding is underway?  I 
wish your new president luck in getting his initiatives passed, because it 
looks like he's fighting an uphill battle with his party only holding 51 seats.

For the record, I did a little research on this NNW business the day of 
Michael's post, and found no ties to the DHS whatsoever.  I reported the 
organization to the DHS, EFF, and The Register.  The EFF responded a short 
while later explaining they already knew about it, but nothing more.

One needs look no further than his blog 
[http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ecm292_thesis/] to know for certain this is 
completely bogus;

> The NNWKAA v3 has moved away from a long form single object app into a
> fully object oriented java app and has thus has helped with the handling and
> compartmentalizing of data. The NNWKL is the latest version that uses the
> ECHELON wordlist as its backbone and FBI / INTERPOL resources as well.

When was the last time you heard the government admit it even exists, much 
less that they shared the "wordlist" with a college student?  AFAIK, the 
only thing they've admitted to is "signal intelligence".

I'm convinced the NNW is his thesis project, nothing more.

-jp

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