[Gllug] Wireless cards -PC world

[Jake Jellinek]

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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