13th April 2001 Archive

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• War driving by the Bay

  Wireless hacking detailed

  In a parking garage across from Moscone Center, the site of this year's RSA Conference, Peter Shipley reaches up though the sunroof of his car and slaps a dorsal-shaped Lucent antenna to the roof-- where it's held firm by a heavy magnet epoxied to the base. "The important part of getting this to work is having the external …

  Security 13 Apr 2001, 08:20

• Closed source is more secure – MS

  Another selfless policy for your safety and convenience

  The head of Microsoft's security response team argued here Thursday that closed source software is more secure than open source projects, in part because nobody's reviewing open source code for security flaws. "Review is boring and time consuming, and it's hard," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response …

  Security 13 Apr 2001, 08:27