Show of 4-20-2002

  • Home Networking, Debunking the Mystery
    • Wired Options
    • Wireless Options
      • 802.11b (Wi-Fi, 11 Mbsp) — Operates in 2.4 GHz band with Bluetooth and wireless phones
      • 802.11a (55 Mbsp) — Operates in 5 GHz band, retail deployment early 2002
      • Bluetooth — Designed for short range communication with peripherals, embedded applications
    • Connecting to the Internet
      • Windows Internet Connection sharing is easy to set up
      • Firewall Software (packet filtering)
      • Router Hardware (routes multiple IP addresses to Internet)
      • Gateway Hardware (includes proxy server, DHCP, etc.)
  • W32.Klez.H@mm Worm Raised to Level 3 Threat
    • Discovered on April 17, 2002
    • Raised to Level 3 Threat Level
      • Category 3 – Moderate
      • Threat type characterized either as highly wild (but reasonably harmless and confinable) or potentially dangerous (and uncontainable) if released into the wild.
      • Wild: High or
      • Damage: High and Distribution: High
    • Payload: This worm infects executables by creating a hidden copy of the original host file and then overwriting the original file with itself. The hidden copy is encrypted, but contains no viral data. The name of the hidden file is the same as the original file, but with a random extension. Attempts to disable Virus Protection software.
    • Large scale e-mailing: This worm searches the Windows address book, the ICQ database, and local files for e-mail addresses. The worm sends an e-mail message to these addresses with itself as an attachment.
    • Releases confidential info: Worm randomly chooses a file from the machine to send along with the worm to recipients. So files with the extensions: ".mp8" or ".txt" or ".htm" or ".html" or ".wab" or ".asp" or ".doc" or ".rtf" or ".xls" or ".jpg" or ".cpp" or ".pas" or ".mpg" or ".mpeg" or ".bak" or ".mp3" or ".pdf" would be attached to e-mail messages along with the viral attachment.
  • Bill Gates to Testify Monday
    • First live appearance
    • Previously video taped
    • The remedy is the issue
    • Deciding between the DOJ settlement and the nine-state counter-proposal
  • Satellite Broadband Given Thumbs Up
    • FCC approved high speed Internet access for LEO satellite systems on April 19th
    • At issue: Interference with Geosynchronous Satellite systems (like Iridium and Globalstar Telecommunications)
    • The solution (suggested by Alcatel): Stop broadcasting blocking beam, transfer links to another node
    • The companies: Teledesic, Skybridge, Alcatel, Hughes, Boeing, and two more
    • Teledesic details
      • Plans to launch 30 low-orbiting satellites, according to FCC records.
      • Bill Gates and telecommunications tycoon Craig McCaw are two major backers of the company
      • Other investors include Motorola and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal.
  • Interplanetary Internet, a JPL initiative
    • Vint Cerf presentation at the last DCISOC and CIT Future of the Internet Series
    • Features of system
      • Intermittent Connectivity
      • Long time delays
      • Asymmetric data rates
      • Resource limitations (deep space antennas)
    • Solution
      • Network of Internets
      • ?Internet operate autonomously own internal protocol
      • Store and forward layer above the Transport Layer
      • Message ownership at gateways to permit message release
      • Resource scheduling and prioritization
      • Security will be essential and at the application layer
    • Similar to? problems with cell phone, wireless ad-hoc networks
    • Each mission will form part of the back bone
    • Relevant links
  • DCISOC and CIT Future of the Internet Series
  • Microsoft Win Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)
    • Gates talks about the "Versatile PC ecosystem"
    • PC will become the command center for an array of smart devices
    • Microsoft wants the PC to be a central part of everyone’s living room
    • It wants hardware developers to design consumer-friendly, cool-looking, and durable devices
      • Flat screens, remote controls, and wireless devices top the list.
    • Microsoft plans to sell keyboards and mice that use Bluetooth
  • Modular PC announced at WinHEC
    • OQO (pronounced oh-q-oh) shows a full-size PC the size of a paperback book, less than 9 ounces
    • 4-inch, super-bright VGA color LCD and Synaptics touchscreen
    • 256-Mbyte onboard RAM; 10-Gbyte+ hard drive
    • 13914 FireWire; USB; audio; OQO-link connectors; and 802.11b Bluetooth wireless networking
    • Modular design can function as laptop, desktop, PDA
    • Windows XP Operating System
    • Uses Transmeta Crusoe CPU
      • The high-performance Crusoe processor consumes 60 to 70 percent less power and runs much cooler than competing chips
      • It transfers the most complex part of a processor?s job ? determining what instructions to execute and when ? to software in a process called Code Morphing
      • Transmeta hopes that OQO will provide a boost to its lagging sales
  • Xbox to Lower Prices in Europe and Australia
    • Designed to offset sluggish sales in Europe and Japan
    • Sony Playstation2 its primay competitor
    • Shipped 3.5 million, instead of projected 4.5 million
  • Nomad Jukebox 3
    • 20GB Harddrive
    • USB, Serial Port 1384, IR data channels
    • 330 hours of sound, 22 hour battery life
    • About $350.
  • CyberBus on University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
    • Computers connect to the bus using standard Wi-Fi wireless networking (802.11b)
    • Internet access uses 3G cell phone technology from Qualcomm
    • Bus connection to campus network uses 802.11b
    • Installed on a single shuttle, which runs around campus and to the Sorrento Valley train station, about 10 miles away
  • CyberPlane demonstrated by Inmarsat
    • Computers connect to planes backup using Ethernet or Wi-Fi
    • Plane communicates to Internet via satellite at 64kbsp
    • Honeywell, the satellite service provider Inmarsat and the French electronics company Thales demonstrated the system
    • Inmarsat’s Swift64 platform uses existing aircraft antennae and satellite communication avionics to the maximum extent possible
    • Boeing has a competing product.
    • Expect business jets to be outfitted first. Commercial air second
  • Stratford News
    • AICP Conference
    • Next start April 22nd, Monday
    • Next one is May 27