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What I'm trying to point out is not that anybody should start a war with their neighbours, but that whichever way you dress it up stealing someone else's bandwidth by hijacking their wireless connection is wrong.

It doesn't matter if it's just for a week or two while you get your own connection sorted, it's still wrong (morally) and illegal (as has been demonstrated recently in the press).

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I agree but unusually for me im promoting the passive side ;)

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And advocating stealing other peoples' bandwidth ;)

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no im saying I would have done it. If someone is silly enough not to follow basic instructions (and routers do come with them on cd normally) then more fool them. I wouldnt scan and try to break encryption. Im not the worlds most honest man but I teli it how it is if you catch my drift ;)

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Ha ha, I didn't mean to start a morality war, once again thanks for putting my mind at ease and yes, it was my fault.

Tempting as getting 'revenge' sounds, I will be happy in the knowledge my network in now as secure as it can be and will leave it at that.

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This is perfectly normal, when a machine wants to get an IP address with DHCP it sends out a broadcast using the MAC address ffffffffffff to 255.255.255.255 this is the broadcast address for the network. Meaning, it's sending out a request to everything on the network and waiting for something to reply.

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Going completely OT but where have you been?.And are you back for good? :)

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hello i just mooved in next door ,noticed your car wasent locked so i took the family for a spin ,i know its ok cos its not secure,can you leave a window open when you go out we need a new carpet.

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Yeah fine, it's wrong but it's as bad to leave the "Window Open" as the metaphor goes, as you've found, it isn't difficult to enable a little security. I'm currently opening a shop on the main road between Bournemouth and Poole and I have set up Wireless Access points for stock taking (using a neat little PDA). Anyway, if I stand near the front Window I can pick up an unsecured network called "getencryption". And sure enough I can log onto this network and access all of the Router functions as the passwords are all default. Unfortunately I have no way of knowing who this AP belongs to (there are quite a number of (Secured) WiFi networks there.

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I had the good fortune to be able to pick up Maccie D's wireless connection while i was waiting for my own ADSL to be fitted, as its across the road from my new place (big mistake, i'm getting fat!)

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Hehehehe

I would send them to the olde "Hey im looking at Gay Porn" site. Nasty, but effective :P


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Actually that reminded me of my old neighbours, who hijacked my conn and was downloading movies, was his income since he was an unemployable layabout.

Had a friend who wrote a script for me, that everything he downed be it P2P, nntp, http, ftp every byte was FF or 255 decimal. He took 3 days to finally figure out that it wasnt just a coincedence, and shame it was when LOTR and Harry Potter was just out. Hah. He lost many a sale then.

He finally figured out it was my connection and tried to be cheeky with me, big fat guy trying to act tough, so I kicked the crap out of him and I got a £50 fine :(

Which didnt please me, so someone tipped FACT anonymously that he did DVD-r's. Cest La Via as they say :P

(need to find that script again)