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Really?
Thats a common occurance here, I was walking through a housing estate here, checked google maps on my iPhone to see where I was, must've had atleast 15 wifi networks pop up, all locked...
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Thats a common occurance here, I was walking through a housing estate here, checked google maps on my iPhone to see where I was, must've had atleast 15 wifi networks pop up, all locked...
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Ummm...in my neighborhood, I can pick up about 20 wireless signals on and off. Only one is not password protected. Mine sure is.
Why is that surprising?
Yeah i think a coupla years ago i could pick up an unprotected wireless network pretty easy. now everyone is on this new fangled password protected train.
You can actually be proactive about other people's password protection. just login into their router and give them a password so no one can get on! they'll thank you later.
You can actually be proactive about other people's password protection. just login into their router and give them a password so no one can get on! they'll thank you later.
Their network may not be password protected but it is very likely their router is. Unless they just left the manufacturer default of course.
last year all four wireless network in my building unlocked (besides mine)
today reduced to three, all locked.
today reduced to three, all locked.
MAC addresses can be faked, it is best to have both mac addresses and a secure password encryption set up as well.
Until recently when I got tired of it, my cable modem which I only use as a backup was wired to an open wifi link on which all the traffic was logged and stored.
I just found it quite fascinating what people will do when they're on an open network but from the supposed privacy of their own homes / machines (since my signal goes out a ways). However, it does make it difficult to e.g. greet one of my neighbours with a straight face.
I just found it quite fascinating what people will do when they're on an open network but from the supposed privacy of their own homes / machines (since my signal goes out a ways). However, it does make it difficult to e.g. greet one of my neighbours with a straight face.
Anyone who knows how to use Google can fake their MAC address and get into your network in about 5 minutes.
Really, honestly...tell me what percentage of people out their know that faking a MAC address is even possibile...or how many even know what a MAC address is??
Unless you live next door to a wily teenager or a hacker, I highly doubt you're going to have a number of people bypassing MAC address filtering.
If they didn't password protect their network, they're not going to password protect the router. Then the router username/password is just some combination of admin, admin1, password, or empty.