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3 open access points in my building

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Wag

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I was fooling around with my friend's laptop and noticed there were at least 5 access points (I saw more every so often) and most of them were wide open.

 
I had net access but I didn't check to see if they had file sharing on or anything. LOL

It's mighty tempting to cancel my $52/mo net access when people are so foolish.
 
Originally posted by: Wag
I had net access but I didn't check to see if they had file sharing on or anything. LOL

It's mighty tempting to cancel my $52/mo net access when people are so foolish.
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Of course you could just boot up P2P and saturate their bandwidth to high heaven.
 
Holy crap! I decided to go out and buy a wireless G PCI card after my one experience with the notebook. I bought the MSI Dual-Net card (w/Bluetooth and nice antenna), set it up and find 8!!!!! unencrypted open ports!!! Geez!!! One 1 I get 100% signal strength with a full 54mbps!!!

What is up with people?
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Holy crap! I decided to go out and buy a wireless G PCI card after my one experience with the notebook. I bought the MSI Dual-Net card (w/Bluetooth and nice antenna), set it up and find 8!!!!! unencrypted open ports!!! Geez!!! One 1 I get 100% signal strength with a full 54mbps!!!

What is up with people?
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Don't complain... enjoy. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Holy crap! I decided to go out and buy a wireless G PCI card after my one experience with the notebook. I bought the MSI Dual-Net card (w/Bluetooth and nice antenna), set it up and find 8!!!!! unencrypted open ports!!! Geez!!! One 1 I get 100% signal strength with a full 54mbps!!!

What is up with people?
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They like giving their neighbors frfee internet? 😀
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Holy crap! I decided to go out and buy a wireless G PCI card after my one experience with the notebook. I bought the MSI Dual-Net card (w/Bluetooth and nice antenna), set it up and find 8!!!!! unencrypted open ports!!! Geez!!! One 1 I get 100% signal strength with a full 54mbps!!!

What is up with people?
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They don't know or care about network security? For the vast majority of people, they don't have anything top secret or super important on their PC. What are you gonna do, read their Word documents? Crash their PC so they can't play the Sims Online?
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Wag
Holy crap! I decided to go out and buy a wireless G PCI card after my one experience with the notebook. I bought the MSI Dual-Net card (w/Bluetooth and nice antenna), set it up and find 8!!!!! unencrypted open ports!!! Geez!!! One 1 I get 100% signal strength with a full 54mbps!!!

What is up with people?
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They don't know or care about network security? For the vast majority of people, they don't have anything top secret or super important on their PC. What are you gonna do, read their Word documents? Crash their PC so they can't play the Sims Online?
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use their credit cards from cached bank pages 😉

jk 😀
 
The name of my wireless network is "Open as long as it's not abused". I hope people get the idea. I haven't had any problems so far.
 
Originally posted by: quasarsky
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Wag
Holy crap! I decided to go out and buy a wireless G PCI card after my one experience with the notebook. I bought the MSI Dual-Net card (w/Bluetooth and nice antenna), set it up and find 8!!!!! unencrypted open ports!!! Geez!!! One 1 I get 100% signal strength with a full 54mbps!!!

What is up with people?
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They don't know or care about network security? For the vast majority of people, they don't have anything top secret or super important on their PC. What are you gonna do, read their Word documents? Crash their PC so they can't play the Sims Online?
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use their credit cards from cached bank pages 😉

jk 😀
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That stuff doesn't cache....
 
No, I definitely am not going to do any malicious activity.

Maybe some are just leaving it open and don't care? Why am I paying $52/mo for access again?
 
Originally posted by: Wag
No, I definitely am not going to do any malicious activity.

Maybe some are just leaving it open and don't care? Why am I paying $52/mo for access again?
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I know several people in apartments, townhomes and condos that share just for the hell of it.
 
mine looks wide open but i got mac filtering on.

so ppl try to connect and it wont let it. I know if someone wanted to get on with mine he has to clone my mac id or something but then he can go for all the ones that have wep encryption, that's easier to hack. a neighbour of mine wanted to use mine, so i let him access it. I did it after some kid started to majorly use bt that couldnt surf.
 
Mine switched from heavily encrypted to unencrypted last night. it's now running a captive portal, though. I'm a satanist 😛
 
Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy
mine looks wide open but i got mac filtering on.

so ppl try to connect and it wont let it. I know if someone wanted to get on with mine he has to clone my mac id or something but then he can go for all the ones that have wep encryption, that's easier to hack. a neighbour of mine wanted to use mine, so i let him access it. I did it after some kid started to majorly use bt that couldnt surf.
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And I take ethereal and look at all traffic to that AP and all of a sudden, I have your mac address. It's way easier than wep and takes zero time.
 
I am moving into an apartment in a 12-story highrise next week, with an identical building next door. I can't wait to see how many open wireless networks I can find.
 
Originally posted by: Special K
I am moving into an apartment in a 12-story highrise next week, with an identical building next door. I can't wait to see how many open wireless networks I can find.
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Same here, although its not a highrise, I am moving into a new apartment soon. Maybe ill let people know of their mistakes and be the good guy.
 
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
Same here, although its not a highrise, I am moving into a new apartment soon. Maybe ill let people know of their mistakes and be the good guy.
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I tried this with somebody and they just didn't seem to care.

 
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