Tag: wisp

Optical Mouse and Trying to see webSENSE

Why is it that my new Optical mouse has red light beaming out of every part of it? Is the translucent base vital to its operation? I would have hoped that, by now, people would have got over the excitement of a ball-less mouse and got down to business. Do people still buy things just because they can see that they are still there when then turn off the lights? I thought object permanence was something you learnt at quite a young age.

Websense weren’t too happy when they found out we’d reverse engineered their WISP protocol. I’m not sure whether it was because we did it in 10 minutes yet though. They’ve sent a letter suggesting we take it down. Gianni has currently taken the source down and put a transcript of the letter up online whilst we attempt to sort things out.

Websense WISP and IPX updates

Gianni, Matt and I spent a little time poking around at the Websense WISP protocol to see how likely it would be to get Squid working with it. We observered a Cisco PIX communicating with a Websense service running Linux. It seems pretty easy (which was strange as we’ve heard to the contrary from Websense themselves). Gianni has knocked up a tool that can query a Websense server with a url to see if it is blocked. If we need it we’ll build a squid redirector. (see http://www.scaramanga.co.uk )

New patch for IPX support on Firestorm. Fixes a few lame bugs and possible remote DoSs Gianni pointed out to me. Also improved the SAP support a little.