At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
Wardriving is also basically dead.
On the contrary. A recent article (zdnet IIRC) described a non-hacker visiting his father, and using a neighbor's connection accidentally. This is very common. My own non-tech father regularly finds other nets in his neighborhood, using default apps (not 'Stumbler, etc). Sure there are a handful of people that
do it, but the number is so small as to be irrelevant.
That 'wardrive' knowing its called that, yes. That do so accidentally, no.
Or consider a Napster-level popular app which includes mixing or onion routing.
Now we're back to the MixMaster argument. Mixmaster was meant to be a "Napster-level popular app" for emailing, but people just don't care about anonymity.
Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex. It needs a simple luser interface and something to piggyback servers on.