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What can you do?

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Greyd

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So someone is using your wireless without your permission. What are some of the things you can do?
 
Capture all their traffic then run it through a names database to find out all their passwords.

Act like an SSL proxy or transparent web proxy to capture all their information. All kinds of fun stuff. Not that I condone any of this kind of activity. It'd be better to just secure your wirless and move on.
 
As an analogy, having unsecured wireless and dealing with intruders is kind of like keeping your door unlocked, hanging up a sign around your block telling people about that, and then waiting inside with a loaded shotgun. Can be fun, but most people don't take your side on this..

WPA with a long randomized key should be able to secure your wireless network adequately. If it doesn't, then I'm sure we'd love to hear about how it got cracked, and why.

If you can't get WPA working for some reason, you could also get some help here.
 
From the weakest to the Strongest..
No Security
MAC
WEP
WPA-PSK
WPA-AES
WPA2
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Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html

WEP, WPA, and the Future - http://www.ezlan.net/wpa_wep.html

The security must be set according to lowest capable Wireless component.

I.e. even most of you Wireless are capable to do WPA2, but one device is only capable to do WEP, the whole system must be configured to WEP.

BTW. The leaving your home open scenario is at time not even an analogous scenario, coz it is hard to believe that some one would end in your house without knowing that he is Not in his house.

I am in an High-rise apartment building in NYC, the building has 300 apartments, a lot of Wireless around, and about 33% is not secured. Many people on the unsecured connections end up surfing through others unsecured Wireless and they are not even aware of it.

Might be that a better analogy would be like ?walking naked in the Street? and getting upset that people look at you.
 
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