New apartment, Free unsecured wireless connections!!!

Trizoy

Trizoy

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Hello all,
I just moved into a new apartment, and when I started up the old wireless card I found 5-6 available connections, but 2 that were unsecured. 1 of these was to bad of a connection to get anything good, but the other one might be able to provide service to the entire state of California. Well maybe not the entire state, but most of it. So I run some speed tests and find it is a 2.8mb down and 400kb upload line. Not bad for wireless. Anyway I found the login page for the router (linksys) and after only 3 tries, guessed the login and password to the admin account on the router. I now have remote access to a router (port forwarding), and a free internet connection (probably a cable connection -comcast-).

I am writing this to say that a login and password for a router is CRUCIAL if it is wireless. Anyway Im not going to change his pw or anything, but I may block 5-8 of the mac addresses that are attached to it :)
 
thats not very ethical now is it? but it does illustrate how important wep encryption on wireless is, especially in urban areas :D
 
well, it is tempting isnt it, to have free internet :-)
but yeah, ethically, i think you should let the guy know.
 
yeah, make a random password a super long one, haha mines is like a sentence long.

go over and let him know maybe he'll reward u with his internet.
 
My wireless is encrypted and protected with a hidden SSID, we "employed" one of my dads mates to come and see if he could get into it, damn bloody hacker, took him about 5 minutes and he had cleaned out our shared doc folders and changed the admin password to the router.

He put it all back of course but it showed that if you know what your doing then most standard encryption wont stop the determined. It will throw ameteurs off course and probably make them give up.

We now have 256bit encryption and a password the size of a bus, he hasnt yet veen able to get into this one..........YET!!!
 
kof2000 said:
yeah, make a random password a super long one, haha mines is like a sentence long.

go over and let him know maybe he'll reward u with his internet.
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lol i doubt that, but thats pretty cool to have free internet (if it were me i would probably take it) :D
 
What your doing is illegal, and could get in lots of trouble if they catch you.

The wireless connection at my house has no password (not even the router), no WEP, ect, and i have broadcast SSID on. Only way i can do this is because i live in the middle of nowhere :D
 
Be careful geoff, the moles and frogs outside in the garden might steal your connection and download trojans!!!! :)
 
thats awesome though, i live in an area with more elderly, who arent on networks, people, so we dont have security in our network. i am aware of like wardriving, but i no where our signal gets broadcasted to, and its only like 1 metre out from the front door, so no need to be worried :P

i no someone who has a centrino lappy, but no internet (dial up actually) but his next door neighbours had wi-fi, so he used their internet, but they moved out so unlucky for him :P
 
i live in an area with more elderly, who arent on networks, people, so we dont have security in our network.
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You'll be surprised who has wireless networks these days, i know of 1 elderly coupl who have one up my road. Once i picked it up on my comp but it wouldnt connect to it, coul only see it.
 
same here, i was without the net for a few days, but i managed to catch the wi-fi of a neighbours net, couldnt login though,
i shld learn how to do tht :-)
 
whenever i bust out my lappy at home i got like 12 spots to login a majority of them arent secured. i was able to login to a couple of them but it can't beat the speed i'm using though.
 
well trust me, you come around myplace and u wont find any networks :P, plus here in Aus, wi-fi hasnt taken off like oher countries, but theres been a huge leap with wif-fi in McDonalds now, but thats about it...
 
sidthereal said:
well, it is tempting isnt it, to have free internet :-)
but yeah, ethically, i think you should let the guy know.
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Let the guy know? How do I find out who it is? The only thing I get is an IP. This is a 7 story apartment complex (on the nicer end aswell). Im not going door to door for some computer illiterate moron. My internet is turned on today, Maybe ill still pimp the other wireless to the other people in the building.

-On another note, I did try finding ot more about the other "leeches" but eh regular network commands, and entry points dont work... //name/c$ or //192.168.xx.xx/c$ or net send, or networking.. Ill just block their mac address :)
 
Yea, very common. You can drive into any major city and park almost anywhere randomly and get a connection.

The guy might not be too happy if he is the one pimping out the connections!
 
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