Hands Up all those who can access a neighbours WiFi..?
 

Being the sad nerd that I am, the other day whilst driving home from work I kept the laptop powered up on the seat next to me just to see how many people's wireless networks I could access. The result surprised me - none on the motorway (fairly obviously) but loads going down Manchester road and whalley road. Both companies and personal networks from what I could work out from the names of them. Then when I got home I could access 3 unsecured ones on my street!

Anyone else tried something similar?

Re: Hands Up all those who can access a neighbours WiFi..?
 

don't know about accessing my neighbours wifi but would'nt mind accessing my neighbours wifey!

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Hahahaha, quick!

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Omg that made me laugh very loud!!!!!!!!! Nice one!!

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I would rather not comment, my neighbours come on here :D

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next time you acess a system use their printer

that 1 will leave them scratching their heads

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Yep got to admit that I have access to free internet as well but its only a dial up connection so I use my own :)

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I let my neighbour piggy back on mine. I have locked his windows PC down so no one can get at his stuff and all printers etc are secure. I run linux on all my laptops/desktops and tbh if you wanted to grab some MP3s off my public drive then I'm not bothered if you do(No write access so you couldn't delete anything.

There are two mindsets when it comes to security. The lock everything down and hope or the let everyone in and just don't have anything of interest. The former can be very timeconsuming and whilst the hacker only needs to find one open door, you need to be concerned with literally thousands of possibilities. The latter approach needs only care in not keeping anything that could be of use. Some would say that a two stage approach works best, leave some stuff open and hide tightly the rest. Hackers will have a shufty round the public stuff and tend to feel that that is all you have and move along to the next victim. You can even create psueudo printers to fool them into thinking you are wide open.

At work I can see about 6 wifi networks, 3 are secure, 3 aren't. these tend to be personal laptops that people can't be bothered to secure. Its amazing how much you can get off them :) I tend to send them messages explaing that there data is wide open.

Ian

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I'm not so sure that is possible... :D

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I know what you mean ;) but I hide him on a separate network behind a proxy server so he isn't visible at all. iptables sorts out any spurious requests and my router does the rest :)

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I think he must mean taken the plug off the mains lead

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That would be me! Although I can't even access my own router through wires because it's so crap, so god help anyone externaly trying :p

*hits router*

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What do you mean Cyfr?

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Whats the best way to secure it Ian? MAC control?

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