Ripe market for "Apple-fying"
With more people getting TVs with wireless built in, plus all the portables we're carrying, it would be really nice to have a single device you could plug in wherever the wire happens to come into your house, with enough range and a simple interface to easily connect all your devices and only your devices.
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Drew |
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I'd agree with that.
The client team was, for a while, working on a subset of that idea, but for the enterprise market. The project went by the wayside. One of Cisco's main problems is that their idea of innovation is to find a company doing something they like, and buy it. That adds another layer of new executives who immediately start empire building. All priorities are shuffled.
There is no point in taking a long view because there will be another power shift in a year and a half to two years. Anything that can not go from scratch to making a LOT of money in that time is not particularly viable. If some other company already had such a product under development, Cisco would probably be interested in buying it. Then all the execs would piss in the soup to give it the corporate flavor and we'd be back to the original topic. |
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WiFi protected setup?
http://www.theregist...fi_not_protected/
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is used to secure access to wireless networks and requires each router to have a unique eight-digit PIN. the protocol used by Wi-Fi Protected Setup reports back after the first four digits have been entered, and indicates if they are right, which means they can be attacked separately. The last of the eight digits is just a checksum, so having got the first four the attacker only then has to try another 1,000 combinations (identifying the other three digits) and the entire PIN is known. Oops... |
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That's worse than WEP.
And I still use WEP because I had one device that only did WEP. And I couldn't be arsed changing it.
(Besides, I have MAC control on the firewall, so if some neighbour guesses my key and gets on, he's still going nowhere. :-) Wade. Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
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