Jacking into someone else's Wi-Fi?

[Zhavric]

In Florida it's a 3rd degree felony.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/07/wi....ap/index.html

[Mkopec1]

Its people being stupid and uneducated about Wi-Fi and the dangers of having it openended.

what does it take to set up a WEP protection on your lap top? 5 min?

[Vorph]

Which is, of course, utter bullshit. He "hacked" nothing, the guy who owned the network was broadcasting his SSID and had no security whatsoever. No WEP, no MAC address restrictions, nothing. The asshat probably didn't even change the default password to the admin interface.

If you transmit a signal into public airspace, someone else picks up the signal and tries to connect (which a lot of hardware will do automatically), and your DHCP server assigns them an address then you have just implicitly given them the right to use your network.

Don't want people uploading kiddie porn via your cable modem? Fucking secure the AP.

[Tigulated]

Just another example of law making by people who have no concept of what the medium they are legislating.

I can't wait till all these baby boomers (and up) pass into retirement, if only so maybe the next generation of hired officials MIGHT understand the technology.

[Kayiznaru]

Originally Posted by Vorph

Which is, of course, utter bullshit. He "hacked" nothing, the guy who owned the network was broadcasting his SSID and had no security whatsoever. No WEP, no MAC address restrictions, nothing. The asshat probably didn't even change the default password to the admin interface.

If you transmit a signal into public airspace, someone else picks up the signal and tries to connect (which a lot of hardware will do automatically), and your DHCP server assigns them an address then you have just implicitly given them the right to use your network.

Don't want people uploading kiddie porn via your cable modem? Fucking secure the AP.

100% correct.

When I was living in the dorms over the past year, I went upstairs to a friend of mine's to work on her laptop. She was connected to the campus internet through a Wi-Fi card, however occasionally she had a little bubble pop up in Windows that said, "You can connect into x wireless locations." One night I got curious and decided to click the bubble, and damn was it ever true.

The thing that slays me is that it's so easy to connect to an open signal, yet dumbfuck Joe Politician can't see that for the life of him and fails to see security measures that already exist to prevent such an occurance.

My father and I were talking about this on the job yesterday (we both work for an internet provider that has stemmed out into wireless connections). It's the usual "Too Fucking Stupid for Technology."