Texas Instruments Inc.

This device extends the battery life in certain types of medical tools, scales, and data acquisition applications.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Building- I. M. Pei

The architect tends to design buildings that depict the high-tech movement. He always works on larger scale projects and uses geometric designs to shape his buildings.

The "Butterfly Effect" - Prof. Edward Lorenz

Professor Lorenz realized that small differences in a forceful system such as the atmosphere could trigger unsuspected results. These explanations eventually led him to formulate what became known as the butterfly effect. "This term came from a paper he wrote in 1972 entitled Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set off a Tornado in Texas?"

Bose stereo - Professor Amar Bose

These stereo speakers are world-renowned for giving high-end performance despite their reticent size.

Ethernet - Robert Metcalf

Ethernet is a relationship between the unit frame-based computer networking technologies for (LANs). The Ethernet controls our access to certain types of data processing models, i.e. Internet.

The Internet Archive - Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive (IA) consists of an online library containing the vast information on the Web and other multimedia resources. This information includes certain snapshots from various times from software, WebPages, audio visual and other sources.

Rockman amplifier - Tom Scholz

The Rockman is used in conjunction with headphones and an amplifier used for certain guitars. If any of you are familiar with Boston then you know who invented this.

Spacewar, the first computer game-Steve Russell

Spacewar was the first digital computer game of our time. The idea behind the game involved spaceships attempting to shoot each other while manipulating within the galaxy. I remember this game; I used to play it all the time on my Atari. I wish I still had it.

Hypertext - Prof. Vannevar Bush PhD

Hypertext is defined as words or text that leads the user to information associated with those words.

GPS (Global Positioning System) - Ivan Getting

The GPS uses satellites that transmit microwave signals. These signals enable receivers to determine certain types of pertinent information such as direction, time, speed and location.

On a weak password (3 letters 4 numbers) it would take:

Your password is 7 characters long and has 175,760,000 combinations.
It takes 0.00 hours or 0.00 days to crack your password on computer that tries 25,769,803,776 passwords per hour. This is based on a typical PC processor in 2007 and that the processor is under 10% load

On a strong password (5 letters 3 numbers and 3 special characters) it would take:

Your password is 10 characters long and has 38,932,892,876,800 combinations.
It takes 755.40 hours or 31.47 days to crack your password on computer that tries 25,769,803,776 passwords per hour. This is based on a typical PC processor in 2007 and that the processor is under 10% load.

So as you can see that is a huge difference in time.

But back to the point in hand. I decided to test what the researcher's had found using 3 tools Nessus, Nmap and Cain & Able (I know they are for script kiddies). Using these tools I set up 2 extra computers on my private network.

Once they where all set up I loaded them up and began testing and what I found disproved what the researcher's said. When using them I could access both the passworded machine and the un-passworded. This shows that you need a strong password on your machine to protect it. The results will be posted up soon when I get round to uploading them. But on both machines I could get full access to everything on them. I will soon test the Internet security of this soon and let you know how it went.

So please for the sake of your privacy password your machines and stay safe online.