The All American Intranet

The All American Intranet: A WLAN For the People, By the People, About the People ABSTRACT This paper will attempt to proscribe and independent WLAN with governmental authentication, in an effort to provide a particular accountability to the internet, and foster an environment where the populace could easily vote, and peruse records of their pundits … Read more

Global Network Operations Center: Continuity in Hazardous Incidents

ABSTRACT After writing my first paper on AT&T’s approach to Unified Communications, I stumbled upon the Global Network Operation Center (GNOC). This is the continuation of the last paragraph of that paper, where I describe the GNOC and it’s association with AT&T’s Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) team, and their track record of responding to natural … Read more

Wired Equivalent Privacy

After reading this whitepaper published by InteropNet Labs (http://www.opus1.com/www/whitepapers/whatswrongwithwep.pdf) I think I discovered a few weakness in WEP or Wired Equivalent Privacy.   WEP works by pairing your user generated password with an Initialization Vector (IV) which, as I understand, is a 24 bit value that’s stored in Plain Text.  So the “code” meant to … Read more