Goodbye Scoble
Scoble, I’m not reading your blog anymore. Your newest post pisses me off to the point in which isn’t really not worth my time as a geek to read your blog.
I’ll quote the entire post right here
I was talking with a geek who’ll remain unnamed and he was telling me how easy it is for someone to sit at a Starbucks, slurp off the local WiFi, and recreate almost everything you do, often gaining passwords and private conversations. I saw this once at a conference where someone up on stage was showing the audience everything that was going over the WiFi networks. For instance, did you know that if you’re using many common Instant Messengers that those send your information over WiFi in plain text? I could be sitting next to you watching EVERYTHING you are typing across the Internet.
So, what do you do to keep your stuff confidential? Any tips beyond this excellent article in Security Focus on this topic? By the way, both this article and my geek friend recommended Off-the-Record Messenging if you want to hold private IM conversations over public WiFi networks.
One other problem is if you’re using a common computer, say one that a family might own, and you want to keep the other people in the family from seeing the sites and things you’re surfing to. Browzar is a new browser that keeps all that stuff to itself.
Scoble, first off, you’re been in the business for years now, and you’re much older than me, and had many more opportunities than I have in life, and yet you seem to miss the simple stuff. You don’t need Web 2.0 bullshit to solve all yuor problems, the problems have been solved years ago. You’re just too stuck in ideas and concepts that you can’t wrap your head around the stuff that’s already out there.
Why use “Browzar” when you can set up an SSH server (sshd, aka ssh daemon) on a server at a secure location, and then connect to your ssh server and foward a dynamic port (usually port 22) to localhost, and then connect to your loopback address and make the secure, AES-encrypted connection?
And of course it’s easy to find information from people surfing on an open WiFi. It’s called Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), tcpdump, Cain and Abel, ettercap, dsniff, ngrep…you name it, packet sniffers are out there, and can be used to sniff traffic on a network. Cain and Abel, for example, will let you get around a switched network, by doing an ARP Poisoning, and becoming the router, or another computer, and recieving their network traffic.
So goodbye Scoble. To anyone still reading Scoble, hopefully by now you’ve realized he doesn’t know much. He used to work at Microsoft, and now is the VP at PodTech.net, and yet he still doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Scoble, your geek license has been revoked.
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Obviously we aren’t the only ones that are feeling this way about King Robert.
http://boogerblog.wordpress.com
This will almost certainly get a metric shit ton of traffic, so I’m going to take advantage of it…
Hey everyone, visit http://computerhelpforum.org and tell us what you think.
/spam
lol, pimpin’ the CHF, I see. :)
Browzar is easier for the non-tech crowd to use than setting up an SSH server.
Why so much animosity toward Scoble?
I thought you guys made a cute couple .
If someone asked me how to keep stuff erased like he’s talking about, I’d probably suggest Browzar too.
CX, you probably think you’re pretty 1337…but dude, get off your high horse. You don’t know everything and your methods don’t work for everyone so stop trying to force them on people!
Heh, alright, let’s all jump on the Web 2.0 “Security Edition” bandwagon.
You know, instead of using tools that have been around for probably a decade or more.
And Browzar…just keeps the data from being recorded on your computer (cache, history, cookies, etc…) That’s not the issue Scoble brought up. He brought up what happens to that data on a public LAN.
Ok, I misread, my bad…
So give the tech-illiterate TOR. Still hella easier than setting up your own SSH box. Plus, 98% of people don’t even know what BSD is let alone setting it up to run a SSH server.
I stand by the second part of my previous post…
And dude, For someone claiming to be so progressive…you sure do love that old school way of thinking… Do a little research before you rant…
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
gb, I was referring to how people love to use Web 2.0 for just about everything…I know what it is.
You don’t have to have BSD to use OpenSSH, you can install cygwin and OpenSSH, or you can install sshwindows, which comes in a standard .exe install file. Click OK a few times, and you have the SSH client and/or Server running.
Edit the config file, and bam!, you have an SSH server. There’s plenty of documentation, too.
Besides the phrase “I’m an IT Major”, I think your next two most overly used quotes are “you should use SSH” or “my favorite OS is BSD”…
yeah, b/c it’s completely feasible to have everyone running a server all the time. I must of forgot that running your own SSH server is the end all be all solution…
Well, it’s a lot better than saying “use Browzar” which just came out, doesn’t protect you on a LAN, and is basically a wrapper for Internet Explorer.
Maybe I talk about SSH a lot because it works and works well.
“One other problem is if you’re using a common computer, say one that a family might own, and you want to keep the other people in the family from seeing the sites and things you’re surfing to. Browzar is a new browser that keeps all that stuff to itself.”
Read that carefully, he isn’t saying it does anything but hides your activity from the rest of the people using that PC using a family as an example.
He also asks for people’s input on what they do to protect them selves wirelessly. He wasn’t proposing a solution. A lot of the replies seem to have methods similar to yours.
This is the kind of stuff you get pissed off about? What happens when you have an actual problem?
PS. I don’t think he is just now thinking about this for himself. I think he’s posting it to see what other people do. You know, a discussion?
Hey Cody, shoot me an email when you get a chance.
Come on cx, you need to insult him more, so he’ll respond and everyone will go to CHF.
We are counting on you. lol
[…] You know every once in awhile I will read a blog entry by one of the many blogs that I read. Recently I was reading a post once again from one of my favorite blogs (sarcasm on) about how he is removing Scoble from his subscription list. Now I normally do not agree with this guy because to be honest he reminds me of all the other open source nut jobs out there who thinks there shit doesn’t stink. So the fact that I am even making a comment on my blog about something he says is a big thing; so what’s this post about well the reason he removed Scoble is one that I agree with. I was reading Roberts last post about something in regards to a joke or humor or something and he makes reference to Web 2.0 and the blogger who is removing him is doing this based on Robert’s comments on that Web 2.0 is the solve for everything. Of course the blogger disagrees and states that because Robert is so full of this Web 2.0 BS that he has been removed from his list. […]