May 3-7, 2005
Thesis Presentations
721 Broadway
at Waverly Place
4th Floor
South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
For additional
information email
itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
or call 212.998.1880
| Yoink! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Author(s): | dedi hubbard Joseph Versoza |  |
| Instructor: | Shirky, Clay | |
| Class: | Final Project Seminar | |
| URL: | http://yoink.totallyrules.com/ | |
| Documents: | The Snifflers(GIF) | |
| Keywords: | security, networks, networked objects, users, common sense, wireless, wifi, public space, hacking, ubicomp, python, linux, passwords, virus | |
| Yoink! is the sound our project makes when something important happens that you might normally miss goes by on open networks. Yoink! is about ptooie and gossamer helping to teach all users a little bit more about keeping things safe and moving online. | ||
| There seems to be a lot more talk going on about technology, networking and security amongst system administrators, geeks and hackers. While this is a good thing, a lot of their work is set back by the missteps of their users. For instance, it only takes one email forwarded amongst a small office to unleash the latest worm or zero-day exploit at the development server. Almost everyone has a virus/worm experience under their belt, but how much do they learn from the downtime , data loss and irratation? Identity theft is the new crime du jour and most people are sitting ducks just waiting for their turn. In many office situations, the users are trained and precautions are taken such as firewalls, anti-virus software, log monitors, and other proactive measures but the typical home user probably won\'t see very much of that and might not even understand it. This is the heart of our problem. We started talking about things only network geeks are really supposed to think about and we asked each other how we could get other people in on it too. The network isn\'t just for geeks anymore, so everyone needs to get savvy and join the conversation. We decided to bridge the gap and help users build up the knowledge we took for granted. So we began to think about ways to bring up some of these problems in clear and non-threatening ways and spread the word. | ||
| Audience: | (Wireless) Network users, non-geeks, geeks, your mom. | |
| User Scenario: | During the normal use of a wireless network a website may require a login and password but offer no method of encryption. ptooie sitting upon an open wireless network should clearly be able to receive and react to this event. gossamer is capable of grabbing outgoing email and its attachments, to scan them for worms and viruses. | |
| Methodology: | Gentoo linux on laptop/mini-itx, connected wirelessly and scanning with libpcap and tcpick, Festival speech synthesis, ClamAV virus scanning, Python, PIC microcontroller. | |