[Cialug] [NEWS] War driving reveals vulnerablewirelessnetworks

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Ok, so I'm the junior high kid that lives next door. I'm running a super
node out of my bedroom using your connection...

Scary thought, isn't it?


On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:39, reinstall hell wrote:
> hate to correct you, but the RIAA cannot sue you for just downloading 
> copyrighted media that you are not entitled to, but you have to download 
> and redistributed it(share it) in order to be of their wrath.
> 
> i know its just a technicality.
> 
> Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> 
> >Considering all the people the RIAA has been suing of late, I'm surprised
> >more people aren't worried that someone will use their internet connection
> >to download copyrighted material and it would get traced back to them. 
> >After all, it would not be to hard to put a car adapter on a laptop and
> >park the car in range of an open AP.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The number of open networks is pretty bad. I drive about 2mi here in
> >>Altoona and picked up about 120 access points. Out of those, only about
> >>15-20 were secure.
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