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Ah, the quiet point of summer: it's been a slow news...month, and I'm not complaining. I have a pile of Bluetooth devices I'm working with, and awaiting now a Bluetooth cell phone (Sony Ericsson + Cingular service) and wireless headset. I'll be reporting in several forums on my experience with the devices. So far: superior. Better than could be expected from reading the industry publications, but I'm more technical than most.
Speaking on wireless at Mac OS X Conference: the O'Reilly folks are throwing a great event with notable speakers, in which category I shyly throw my hat in. I'm performing a half-day seminar on wireless networking under and with OS X, including both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. When the conference occurs in late Sept. to early Oct., Bluetooth will be a way of life for many Mac users already. (I'm sounding like a zealot, but, no, really, it's muy cool.)
Sifry coins "Honeyspot": an excellent neologism from David Sifry, describing a hot spot that's a honeytrap, the latter term meaning a network set up to attract crackers and study them in an isolated environment that appears to be a fully functional network. My advice to everyone is that most prosecutors aren't hip enough to separate use of property without compensation from attractive nuisance, and will happily charge you with cybercrimes when you merely sucked down a DHCP address by accident.