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This time of year, I have my laptop in many different people's homes in many neigborhoods in my area. I can almost always find an unsecured router somewhere. I might not get strong enough signal to connect, but I can almost always find one.
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bigjimc
join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA | I just left my parents Condo in Florida and there was 6 open SSID broadcast connections available to me.
Not to mention Lisa's Printer and Pat's Printer and.....
Maybe we as the intelligent IT community should assist more people in WiFi security and not just relish in the fact that there are that many open connections.
Maybe we should tell people that they should read the directions and follow the steps to a secure WiFi. It takes only 15 additional minutes. |
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wtansillNcc1701
join:2000-10-10
Falls Church, VA | said by bigjimc:I just left my parents Condo in Florida and there was 6 open SSID broadcast connections available to me. Not to mention Lisa's Printer and Pat's Printer and..... Maybe we as the intelligent IT community should assist more people in WiFi security and not just relish in the fact that there are that many open connections. Maybe we should tell people that they should read the directions and follow the steps to a secure WiFi. It takes only 15 additional minutes. OK. Please tell me though -- how do you go about identifying "Lisa's Printer" such that you can tie it back to a given individual? How about all the other open links? I'm being serious -- not busting your chops.
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1 edit | said by wtansill:Please tell me though - how do you go about identifying "Lisa's Printer" such that you can tie it back to a given individual? How about all the other open links? I'm being serious - not busting your chops. Well, there are printers out there with wireless capabilities, and as soon as someone who has purchased one, unpacked it and turned it on for the first time, he/she was probably presented with a prompt to give it a name so that it can be identified to other wireless clients. Of course, "Lisa" or "Pat" probably never bothered to go beyond setting their names, never went into Security Settings and made sure that their printers only talk to their wireless routers and nothing else or at least asked for a user ID/password before accepting a print job. As a result, anyone who can connect is free to print pr0n to their printers.
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bigjimc
join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA | reply to wtansill
Lisa and Pat happen to be married and that was an easy one to ID in the Condo Association Listing. Then there were the Smiths, Jones Network, etc... (names changed to protect the ignorant) LOL. Plus they generally have to be withing 324 feet of the location. That limits it to about 60 condo units.
I would post on the bulletin boards for those who didn't know better that I would be available to set up secure WiFi for $50. Make some scratch. |
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wtansillNcc1701
join:2000-10-10
Falls Church, VA | said by bigjimc:Lisa and Pat happen to be married and that was an easy one to ID in the Condo Association Listing. Then there were the Smiths, Jones Network, etc... (names changed to protect the ignorant) LOL. Plus they generally have to be withing 324 feet of the location. That limits it to about 60 condo units. I would post on the bulletin boards for those who didn't know better that I would be available to set up secure WiFi for $50. Make some scratch. Ah -- I thought that you meant that there was some way that you could physically trace a hotspot to an actual person. I assume that you could do that by triangulating with the appropriate gear, but I'm not up on the technology of doing so. Posting on a bulletin board could work if those with open hotspots bothered to read the stuff tacked onto the board.
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bigjimc
join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA | HA HA HA, I probably could but noooo nothing so sinister....Muuuuhhhhhhhhahhahhahhaha |
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join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
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said by bigjimc:Maybe we should tell people that they should read the directions and follow the steps to a secure WiFi. It takes only 15 additional minutes. You want to be the one that has to allude to these people that they're technological dumbasses? I sure as hell don't.
...that and "just 15 minutes" kinda adds up when you'd have to do that to every other house in the LA area, lol. Clearly being unsecured is giving them no problems, so it shouldn't be my problem either. |
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