Love Letter Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:19:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Securing wi-fi isn’t about price gouging https://dfarq.homeip.net/securing-wi-fi-isnt-about-price-gouging/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=securing-wi-fi-isnt-about-price-gouging https://dfarq.homeip.net/securing-wi-fi-isnt-about-price-gouging/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:22:31 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5236 The so-called wi-fi golden era is over, and apparently being glad about it makes me an absolutist. But John C. Dvorak is wrong. This isn’t about making people pay for Internet access. It’s pure security. Toilets and drinking fountains are

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/securing-wi-fi-isnt-about-price-gouging/feed/ 3 5236 The old days of viruses https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-old-days-of-viruses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-old-days-of-viruses https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-old-days-of-viruses/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:07:00 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5108 Blogging pioneer John Dominik, inspired by my Michelangelo memories, wrote about his memories of viruses later in the decade. So now I’ll take inspiration of him and share my memories of some of those viruses. I searched my archives, and

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-old-days-of-viruses/feed/ 2 5108 LoveLetter is just a symptom of worse things to come https://dfarq.homeip.net/loveletter-is-just-a-symptom-of-worse-things-to-come/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=loveletter-is-just-a-symptom-of-worse-things-to-come Sun, 07 May 2000 15:37:21 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=971 The virus parade continues. I saw some really disturbing speculation on BetaNews today. Of course there's the news of 10 variants on VBS.LoveLetter. Worse yet, there's speculation of what kind of havoc a trojan horse jumping on ICQ could cause. I don't know if ICQ is scriptable, but what if someone implemented a program that contacts the ICQ network (possibly by borrowing code from one of the open-source Linux ICQ clones), then sends itself to all of your ICQ contacts? A lot of ICQ users indiscriminately accept and run any file sent to them. Just another conduit. Hopefully it's beyond most virus writers. (Most virus writers are on my programming level. If I download a real program, you know, like an open-source Linux utility, I'm pretty clueless about four lines in. I can follow virus code, because it's simple.)

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