[Gllug] Wireless cards -PC world

[Roger Whittaker]

We know now ...


On 2 Jan 2002, Jake Jellinek wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:22, mallum wrote:
> > on Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 08:24:02PM -0000, Jake Jellinek wrote:
> > > Come within half a mile (or so) of my house, use DHCP and you'll be
> > > broadband surfing without any need to authenticate. Sniff all my clear text
> > > traffic if you like.
> > >
> > > Noone in the area seems to have discovered this yet though, been running it
> > > like this for about a year, never had a single unexpected DHCP request (or
> > > sign of unusual network activity).
> > >
> >
> > I had the same problem. Am now denying unknown mac addresses via a little
> > iptables magic -...<snip>
>
> Ah no, this isn't really a problem for me, I do it on purpose. I like
> the idea of providing a free service no-one knows about!
>
> Jake.
>
>
>

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