Wireless and Net stumbler.
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Wireless and Net stumbler.
I work at a news paper(in I.T) and I was telling the editor how to setup a wireless new work at home and I told him how to lock it down. I said to him if I went to any res area I bet I would pick up a lot of open hot spots.
Anyway 2 days later a reporter comes in saying the editor wants to do a story on the subject. So there I am with a photographer and a reporter driving around a middle class area.
47 hot spots found 18 fully open, one had left the default password on router. and one, I managed to get into the C:\ drive of his or hers desktop computer.
Please lock your networks down.
Anyway 2 days later a reporter comes in saying the editor wants to do a story on the subject. So there I am with a photographer and a reporter driving around a middle class area.
47 hot spots found 18 fully open, one had left the default password on router. and one, I managed to get into the C:\ drive of his or hers desktop computer.
Please lock your networks down.
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tell me about it, probably why friends get me so sort theirs out.
but it really is shocking then ANYONE can walk in to pcworld take home and set it up
yet ignore the security section, thinking they will never ever be attacked
but it really is shocking then ANYONE can walk in to pcworld take home and set it up
yet ignore the security section, thinking they will never ever be attacked
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Originally Posted by Spiky
tell me about it, probably why friends get me so sort theirs out.
but it really is shocking then ANYONE can walk in to pcworld take home and set it up
yet ignore the security section, thinking they will never ever be attacked
but it really is shocking then ANYONE can walk in to pcworld take home and set it up
yet ignore the security section, thinking they will never ever be attacked
leave it like this.. makes it easier for me to read my email and access the internet everywhere
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Originally Posted by pgtips
i can use the "default" connection from the neighboors to surf a bit faster
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my mate was having trouble with his NTL broadband... bought a USB wireless adapter and found next door's 2mb connection open..
he's now using that instead of his 512k broadband at home
he's now using that instead of his 512k broadband at home
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