At Lessig's spectrum conference, listening to David Reed do his thing. Joi Ito's set up a trackback page for links to blog entries coming out of the conf. Stanford filters access to its wireless net on the basis of MAC addresses. Attendees were meant to submit their addresses earlier this week, but some didn't, or submitted the wrong address. At MIT, the MAC filtering only prevents you from getting a DHCP lease (so assigning yourself an IP address [derived with something like tcpdump] is sufficient to get you onto the network), but here, they actually filter at the router to the Internet, so even if you assign yourself an IP, you can't get out. I forgot to bring an Ethernet cable, so I can't bridge service out to my seatmate, who forgot to send in his MAC. Tomorrow.
Notes from the Spectrum Conference
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