Have you ever jumped on someones Wireless network?

[Shelly21]

yeah.

 

[TitanDiddly]

My uncle hooked up with his laptop when he came here. The people across the street. They named their network as their street address. That's an invite if you ask me.

 

[jdiddy]

Originally posted by: bacon333
my friend and i were lost somewhere in los angeles so we drove up to some suburbs, parked at the curb and stole internet from a wireless network called "missberch." we checked our email and used mapquest in the car.

Did the same thing but I was in San Diego lost looking for my hotel. I can pick up 3 wifi networks from home and none of them are encrypted they all have a default ssid and a default login in and password.

 

[alexeikgb]

Originally posted by: phreakah
yup, when i first moved into my apartment and didnt have internet for a couple of weeks i gave the wireless a try and found about 5 available connections 😀

Doing the same here.... not for long though

 

[DaFinn]

Just came back from Frankfurt... I was aple to use my laptop practically anywhere.

 

[Hammer]

never

 

[pmoa]

yup ive logged on and put a password on it for them 😉 but i dunno how they logged back into it 😕

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Beau
Yup. All the time. Have no regrets about it. It's so easy to lock down a wireless network, I figure it's the owner's own fault for being lazy. If they can set up a wifi network, they can secure it....

I use the same justification for DDoSing hospitals.

:roll: Yeah. Totally comparable.

Using someone's bandwidth on their dollar for their laziness != wrecking havoc on a service to humanity.

If they secured their site better...

there's a difference between putting people's lives in danger for no good reason, and using unnoticeable amounts of bandwidth to say, find directions or check your email

not that unauthorized use of wifi is morally acceptable... but shutting down a hospital network is nowhere near comparable.

 

[gopunk]

do it all the time... i just wish there was airsnort or kismet for windows. i have mandrake installed on virtual pc but haven't gotten airsnort to work yet. oh well... not too concerned about some kind of honey pot set up either since most of my work is done over secure protocols

 

[JSang]

yup i am borrowing now 🙂
stupid comcast takes forever to set up new customers

 

[Liviathan]

My wifi net is locked down. In my building I see about networks come up but can't seem to get into any of them.

 

[Paulson]

I was using this router that's pretty close to my apartment complex for a day when I couldn't get online

it's nice to have a backup (I have no idea what speed their net conncetion is though

 

[Deleted member 4644]

only once -- dsl went down. I had to have internet, so I stole someone's cable.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Oh, and once I caught someone mooching on mine. Thats when I went to 256bit WPA-AES authentication and encryption. 😉

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Beau
Yup. All the time. Have no regrets about it. It's so easy to lock down a wireless network, I figure it's the owner's own fault for being lazy. If they can set up a wifi network, they can secure it....

I use the same justification for DDoSing hospitals.

:roll: Yeah. Totally comparable.

Using someone's bandwidth on their dollar for their laziness != wrecking havoc on a service to humanity.

If they secured their site better...

there's a difference between putting people's lives in danger for no good reason, and using unnoticeable amounts of bandwidth to say, find directions or check your email

not that unauthorized use of wifi is morally acceptable... but shutting down a hospital network is nowhere near comparable.

It's different in practice, but no different in theory. The "if they secured it better" excuse doesn't fly with me.