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Posted by Sharon on May 26, 2008, 1:13 am
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A neighbor of mine has an unsecured belkin router based on what I see in my
wireless networks.
I can actually connect and use his internet connection (3 bars) but I have
my own (five bars) so that in and of itself is of limited interest to me.
Still, I wonder.
It's almost as if he's extended a palms-out open invitation to me to do
something, anything. (Am I a bad person for even thinking this?)
There must be some reason people go to the trouble to secure their routers
(mine, for example, is secured with a password at least).
May I ask what earthly advantage would it be to have the good fortune of
unfettered access to my neighbor's wireles router short of mischief?
What would I want to do that would be of benefit?
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Posted by Bill Kearney on May 26, 2008, 1:32 am
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>A neighbor of mine has an unsecured belkin router based on what I see in my
> wireless networks.
Be a good neighbor, suggest they secure it.
> It's almost as if he's extended a palms-out open invitation to me to do
> something, anything. (Am I a bad person for even thinking this?)
Sure, and if he leaves his lawnmower out in the yard, that's just an
invitation to use it, right? Or perhaps a better analogy would be leaving
his TV on and using your remote to watch premium channels. After all, he's
already paying for it, right?
It's called theft of service. Sure, you can 'get away with it'. Until you
can't, then you're stuck being the thief in the neighborhood.
> There must be some reason people go to the trouble to secure their routers
> (mine, for example, is secured with a password at least).
Yes, to allow the piece of mind to know what they're paying for isn't being
stolen by others.
> May I ask what earthly advantage would it be to have the good fortune of
> unfettered access to my neighbor's wireles router short of mischief?
> What would I want to do that would be of benefit?
What, all this just to troll for this nonsense? Find better uses for your
time, I'm sure that To Do list is calling...
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Posted by curt on May 26, 2008, 8:42 am
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> What, all this just to troll for this nonsense? Find better uses for
> your time, I'm sure that To Do list is calling...
Hey, I think the OP didn't sound right asking the question but I think
the question, in and of itself, is not a bad one to ask. I myself, would
like to understand exactly why we go through the efforts of securing our
networks and precisely what types of things can be done against us if we
don't.
To the OP : I think you are asking your question in the wrong way and in
the wrong place.
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Posted by Sharon on May 26, 2008, 10:24 am
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> To the OP : I think you are asking your question in the wrong way and in
> the wrong place.
Sorry. I just don't see why I go to the trouble to secure my router if all
it does is allow my closest neighbors to get bad bars of service.
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Posted by Bert Hyman on May 26, 2008, 11:01 am
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> On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:42:04 GMT, curt wrote:
>> To the OP : I think you are asking your question in the wrong way and
>> in the wrong place.
>
> Sorry. I just don't see why I go to the trouble to secure my router if
> all it does is allow my closest neighbors to get bad bars of service.
It allows them to masquerade as you, or at least masquerade as a paying
customer of your ISP.
Once he's connected to your router, if he accesses the Internet, he has
your IP address.
Further, if you have any PCs on an internal LAN, he has access to all of
them, limited only by whatever security you've activated on them, if
any.
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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com
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