Unsecured wireless access points ...

[dud]

Just wondering how many people still do not secure (even with WEP encryption) their wireless access point. Yes, I understand that some people are not tech-savy but it pretty simple to do. When I use my netbook with my wireless router I pick up six (6) access points with only one being unsecured. Please list what type of home you have (apartment, single fam house, etc.) , how many access points you can detect and how many are unsecured.

For me:

Single family home, 6 access points with 1 being unsecured


Thanks ...

 

[Pegun]

Apartment building with 12 apartments, last check there were 2 unsecured and like 10 or 12 secured.

 

[ViviTheMage]

6 or so, 12 are secured...condo, with other 2-3 story condo buildings near by.

 

[Crusty]

There is only one unsecured wireless near me out of 20 or so.... well unsecured as in not using any security. I'd say over a quarter of the others only run WEP so I would consider those unsecure.

 

[SearchMaster]

The only access points I have access to are my own (3 of them, only 2 actually used). My neighbor uses my wifi but there are no other houses within reception range (next nearest house almost 1/4 mile away).

 

[Queasy]

I ran unsecured for a couple of months only because you can't get reception outside of my house. I turned it on just to be on the safe side though.

I can see the SSID broadcast signals from two other houses at the end of my street but they are secured.

 

[dud]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster
The only access points I have access to are my own (3 of them, only 2 actually used). My neighbor uses my wifi but there are no other houses within reception range (next nearest house almost 1/4 mile away).

And you are OK with this? Do youhave some sort of agreement with your neighbor with what he can/cannot do with your bandwidth?

 

[Crono]

There was one unsecured like 2 years ago. Now there are 4 wireless networks within range of my house (plus my own) and all of them are secured.
People are getting more educated about this stuff, and/or the install software requires or automatically enables encryption.

 

[nickbits]

I don't secure mine. There are about 6 SSIDs that I can see, 1 which isn't secure (that isn't mine).

I do have MAC filtering on but I know that is pretty useless, but it keeps the "casual clickers" at bay.

I don't really see any reason to secure it. My LAN resources are secure on their own and secure internet traffic is encrypted anyway.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: nickbits
I don't secure mine. There are about 6 SSIDs that I can see, 1 which isn't secure (that isn't mine).

I do have MAC filtering on but I know that is pretty useless, but it keeps the "casual clickers" at bay.

I don't really see any reason to secure it. My LAN resources are secure on their own and secure internet traffic is encrypted anyway.

You need to read up on man in the middle attacks. Oh so easy to do with an open wireless like yours. You might think your traffic is secure but I'm really proxying everything you do and intercepting all of your secrets without your knowledge.

 

[leftyman]

2

 

[sswingle]

I can see 3 access points. Mine, a secured one called linksys, and an unsecured one called Bree. Bree also has the default password on the router. I find it amusing that someone that did figure out how to put a custom name on was not the one to figure out security.

 

[lxskllr]

I have 5 networks visible, and 1 is unsecured. I've thought about leaving my network open as a public service, but haven't as of yet.

 

[jlee]

None.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: nickbits
I don't secure mine. There are about 6 SSIDs that I can see, 1 which isn't secure (that isn't mine).

I do have MAC filtering on but I know that is pretty useless, but it keeps the "casual clickers" at bay.

I don't really see any reason to secure it. My LAN resources are secure on their own and secure internet traffic is encrypted anyway.

Thanks for letting me see and capture every single then you do online. Hopefully you do some banking. SSLstrip FTW!

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: sswingle
I can see 3 access points. Mine, a secured one called linksys, and an unsecured one called Bree. Bree also has the default password on the router. I find it amusing that someone that did figure out how to put a custom name on was not the one to figure out security.

I always thought it would be amusing to screw with a default set router. Add a password, then encrypt the connection :^D

 

[middlehead]

Eight unit building, only one that's flat out unsecured. There's two that broadcast but have encryption. Mine is no-broadcast, MAC filtered, and WPA encrypted.

 

[olds]

SFH, 4 all secured

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

There used to be like 20 unsecured when wireless started spreading out. I used to download at my apartment at a full 6mbps (800 KB/sec) and connect to another one and use 500 KB/sec. Oh gosh. It was like having a 10mbps connection or something. Then people gradually learned and bought stupid proof routers that would help you secure it.

 

[shocksyde]

~10 in range, all secured. When I first moved in, the wireless connection in my condo was unsecured. I looked to see how many computers were connected and there were 5 or so that weren't ours. I put a stop to that very quickly.

 

[dbk]

1 unsecured
2 secured

 

[zanejohnson]

none, our closest neighbors are far enough away i cant see there AP (if they even have one) everything in our house is wired so i just have the wifi turned off completely on our router...

 

[BW86]

none

 

[D1gger]

We see about 10 networks in our Vancouver condo, all of them secured.

In Victoria, we see 4 networks, again all secured.

 

[nageov3t]

6 total, including my own, 1 unsecured.

live in a 4-family apartment building with only one real neighbor excluding people in the apartment building, and they're probably like 200' away down the block (I'm on a corner... in back of us is a daycare center, my immediate neighbor to the right is a machinist's shop, and across the street is the back of a grocery store).

my own network is unsecured because I was having issues with some devices connecting to it, but I monitor it pretty closely to make sure that there's nothing connected that I don't know about and there never has been. I also don't use dhcp and have my max IP list set to 5 (laptop, netbook, desktop, xbox 360, tivo)