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Roger Weeks

Author, security & wireless expert


Areas of Expertise:
  • Networking
  • systems administration
  • wireless
  • Linux
  • Mac OSX
  • security
  • writing

Biography

Roger Weeks has been living and working with computers since 1982 when he got his first Atari, and discovered a whole new world with the purchase of a 300bps modem.

He has designed, built and supported large and small server installations and networks from LAN to WAN to wireless. He was a part of the NoCat wireless group in Sebastopol, CA for several years and considers that one of the best experiences of his life. In the last few years he has focused on security.

He is currently a Technical Marketing Engineer at NetApp in Sunnyvale, CA. Roger is a coauthor of Linux Unwired and Wireless Hacks, 2nd Edition.

Books

Wireless Hacks Wireless Hacks
by Rob Flickenger, Roger Weeks
Second Edition November 2005
$24.95 USD
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Linux Unwired Linux Unwired
by Roger Weeks, Edd Dumbill, Brian Jepson
April 2004
$24.95 USD

Blog

Now what does the FBI want?

July 10 2006

Over the weekend, this news item caught my eye. Among other things, this proposed legislation would: Require any manufacturer of “routing” and “addressing” hardware to offer upgrades or other “modifications” that are needed to support Internet wiretapping. The best commentary I’ve found on this is on the interesting people mailing list, and… read more

Mergers are good for customers?

July 03 2006

Every time a former Bell company has merged with yet another former Bell company in the last 10 years: SBC merges with Ameritech SBC merges with Pacific Bell SBC merges with AT&T (anyone seeing a pattern here?) Bell Atlantic merges with GTE Bell Atlantic merges with NYNEX, becomes Verizon When each of these mergers happened, each company… read more

SSH Tunneling & Apple Mail

March 29 2006

I discovered a stupid bug in Apple Mail today. I have a SSH tunnel set up on my PowerBook back to a Linux machine at work so I can securely check my IMAP mail from open wireless networks. Today in class I found that the wireless network I’m on blocks outbound… read more
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