My thoughts exactly!

Kudos on calling out the man page in the spirit of instruction.

You can check the consistency of the kernel "file" and compare a MD5 / SHA-1 of known good kernel. Assumption here that the kernel is loaded into healthy hardware. Depends on the spirit of the question. I do agree, running kernel looking at itself... chicken::egg.

For corruption, sure, but rootkits can mess that up by changing the md5 binary to always give the tainted kernel a known checksum.

If a malicious attacker can modify a kernel, no process running within the kernel can check it for consistency.

Very cool, thanks for posting the link. I'm sure this will get a few of us interested in HAM / Packet radio! Thanks again.

Ask the users! I'd answer a poll at the bottom of your page... Where is your page?

Answers: 1. Way way too many (I'm to the stage of browsing that I'm posting comments! ehhe). 2. Great answer to the initial question so I'm pretty happy now. 3. Very very far from angry (see 2) 4. MacBook Pro (10.5.5) 2.4Ghz Core2 Duo 4GB RAM.

Our wonderful scripting adventures don't seem to work anymore... ;( Anyone able to confirm?

Thanks for the wiggle.net link... I've got a place to put my wardriving data now! :)

curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml" --data "<?xml version='1.0'?><LocationRQ xmlns='http://skyhookwireless.com/wps/2005' version='2.6' street-address-lookup='full'><authentication version='2.0'><simple><username>beta</username><realm>js.loki.com</realm></simple></authentication><access-point><mac>YOURMACADDRESS</mac><signal-strength>-50</signal-strength></access-point></LocationRQ>" https://api.skyhookwireless.com/wps2/location <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

haha cmd line ftw, nice

except you have an extra xml tag at the end