wireless network ethics and security - again

[Jon Miller]

From everything you have posted LOTM, POTM seems like an interesting and well developed individual. You must be proud.

Jon Miller

[KrazyHorse]

I leave my network unsecured. Occasionally some ******* starts eating up my bandwidth and causing me problems. When that happens I WEP the network for the next couple of weeks to force that person to move on to the next network.

Then I go back to unsecured.

[Asher]

People seemed to have smartened up in my apartment building, all of the networks are WEP secured.

Unfortunately for them, WEP is not secure, and I was able to use their "secured" networks until Rogers came to hook me up with cable.

I can also use a WEP-secured network in the basement laundry room cause some chap on the first few floors has a wireless router with WEP.

Also, it's amazing how many people have fetish porn on their computers.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
POTM has decided she might bake cookies for the neighbors instead.

[Dinner]

My network is unlocked and I don't intend to lock it. The girls across the street have a wireless network too though they lock it though I did notice one of them on our network once when their network was down. The name of the computer who was using our network was "TEH GIRLZ" so I'm assuming it was college girls across the street.

[Q Classic]

Lock it down.

Turn off SSID Broadcasting, turn on MAC Address Filtering, use WPA or above. Disable DHCP addresses for wireless machines, and tie specific addresses to specific wireless cards.

Heck, if everybody's on 54g or another single standard, disable compatibility with the other ones, too.

If you want to "repay" anyone for using their network... bake 'em a cake.

[KrazyHorse]

God, you people are paranoid.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
God, you people are paranoid.

It's not paranoia if the little grey people that float on unsecured networks who try to reach in and scoop out your eyeballs really are out to get you.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This seems like the right place for this breaking news from Singapore...

Singapore teen first to be sentenced for wireless piggybacking

A Singapore teen has became the first in the city-state to be sentenced for piggybacking on someone else's wireless Internet connection.

Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, could have been sentenced to jail but District Judge Bala Reddy said the youth would instead serve 18 months' probation -- including a stint in a boys' home -- unless he was called up for compulsory military national service.

"This is the first case of this nature," Tan's lawyer, Sam Koh, told reporters after the sentence was passed.

According to a court document obtained by AFP, Tan secured access at about 2:00 am on May 13 last year to a wireless router belonging to a person identified as Amos Leong "for the purpose of obtaining computer service" and specifically for Internet access.

Tan earlier pleaded guilty to the charge under the Computer Misuse Act which says anyone convicted of securing access without authority to a computer for the purpose of obtaining computer services is liable to up to three years in jail, a 10,000 dollar (6,490 US) fine, or both.

Reddy told court that a social worker had reported Tan was addicted to online gaming. The judge recommended Tan receive assessment and treatment for the problem, and ordered his parents to ensure the youth has no Internet access during his probation.

Koh told reporters that Tan had gone outside his house to piggyback on any available wireless network because his mother had confiscated his computer modem. He was chatting online when a passerby asked what he was doing, became suspicious, and later called police, the lawyer said.

Wireless connectivity is currently available in Singapore homes, offices and schools but the government recently said Singapore would offer free wireless broadband service in public areas starting this year.

The program would increase the number of wireless hotspots from 900 currently to 5,000 over two years, the government said.

And my favorite paragraph from the shorter AP version of the story:

Senior District Judge Bala Reddy cited a probation report as saying Tan had been addicted to Internet gaming at the time of the offense, adding the teenager had "few friends, if not none."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Singapore-teen-first-to-be-sentenced-for-wireless-piggybacking/2007/01/16/1168709757008.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2798003

[Dis]

cookies

QOTM

[Proteus_MST]

Wireless connectivity is currently available in Singapore homes, offices and schools but the government recently said Singapore would offer free wireless broadband service in public areas starting this year.

TEH PARADIZE

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST


TEH PARADIZE

Yeah, it's astonishing how much free broadband there is here. Really, except for the speech restrictions, this place completely rocks.

[Asher]

Toronto's financial distrinct (where I work) has free wireless.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Asher
Toronto's financial distrinct (where I work) has free wireless.

So does Concordia campus in Montreal. Although I'm not sure who's providing it, because Concordia's wireless service is 3$ a year.

also, Fetish Porn

[Asher]

Most universities do, Ninot.