Digital Technology for Digital Living.
November 21, 2004
Steal Your Neighbour’s Wi-Fi.
Jason, over at e3 found a great Slate article, How To Steal Wi-Fi, which is great to learn just that, or how to secure your own connection.
“When I moved into a new neighborhood last week, I expected the usual hassles. Then I found out I’d have to wait more than a month for a DSL line. I started convulsing. If I don’t have Net access for even one day, I can’t do my job. So, what was I supposed to do? There’s an Internet café on the next block, but they close early. I had no choice—it was time to start sneaking on to my neighbors’ home networks.”
It rounds out the article with
“set a password that isn’t as obvious as “1234.” There’s an eye-glazing list of Wi-Fi security measures you can implement to block overachieving Russian teens from monitoring your keystrokes, but in real life the only people sniffing your wireless signal are jerks like me who need a place to log on until the phone company wires the apartment.”
So, don’t use the default or a generic password for your Wireless Router. Even better, a few extra simple measures include adding a WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key, or with newer routers the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) key, and turn off the SSID (Service Set Identifier), which isn’t possible on all routers (like an older Apple Airport Base-station). If you feel the need, go that extra mile and only allow the MAC Address of the computers you intend to use. Alternatively, leave the network wide open and score major Whuffie!
Gadgetman | | Broadband, Wireless
April 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I WANT TO STEAL MY NEIBOUR’S WIRELESS NETWORK BUT, HE HAS HIS SECURITY SETTINGS TO ENABLED… SOME ONE TELL ME HOW TO CRACK IT PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
August 27th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
you go to his house and tell that some one needs him out side and get into his house and take it.he will never know that you did it trust me.