Re: WiFi and Your Neigbourhood ;-)

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From: JM
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:57

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There are three secure networks, and three non-secure networks that I can 
see from my house, right now.  .  I know who most of them are too, "JBNet" 
is Jerry B. (next door neighbor to the west), "Tim"is Tim D. (down the alley 
across the street).  "MomRulz" is Chris, who lives directly across the 
street.  Some are more cryptic like "8k2l0wkv".  Mine is not broadcast.

Theoretically, I could cancel my ISP service, and mooch off of them if I 
wanted too (although I would never do that).  Yes, it is illegal, but 
honestly, what are the chances of getting caught?  Very unlikely.

There are a lot of inexpensive devices that will sniff out networks now, 
including signal strength and encryption status.

There are also a lot of high gain directional antennas that can multiply 
your reception.  I'd bet that I could pick up more than 30 networks with one 
of those things.

Don't get me started on BlueHacking.



"Dhu Pin Yoo" <dhu.pin.yoo@ethereal.broadband.taipei.tw> wrote in message 
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>
> Try this.
>
> Fire up your wireless sometime and have a walk about your area, noting
> how many open, unprotected access points that you can tap.  It seems the
> incompetent are setting these up today by numbers, with no thought to
> any sort of security requirements.  Actually, they have no idea what they
> are doing, obviously ;-)
>
> Be sure to send them a "thanks for the WAP" message, when you can <g>.
>

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