[Gllug] Wireless cards -PC world

[Jake Jellinek]

Ooops, ah well, you can all go on a "treasure" hunt now and try to track me 
down. The great thing is, if it all gets out of hand, I just tweak things a 
bit and it all goes away again :)

Anyway, I doubt the signal really does go that far, I've never actually 
tested it outside of my house yet. (That said, my aerial (sp?) is not 
inside the house itself)

The only slight concern about wireless networks is that they are like 
beacons to intelligent burglers. I've always thought the consume database 
has that problem too.

Ah well, at least this list isn't public...;-)

Jake.



--On 02 January 2002 11:41 +0000 Roger Whittaker <roger at suse.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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