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Detecting Wireless LAN Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beware-the-bandwidth-leech dept.

technosavvy writes "With wireless home networks and applications like NetStumbler becoming so popular, it's surprising that there are so few consumer-oriented applications that help monitor who is connecting to your wireless network. Bob Brewin of ComputerWorld lists three tools with this purpose in mind in his article "Tools for detecting rogue wireless LAN users"." I just like running etherape.

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  1. Re:Personally... you'd pick socialism. by dada21 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why in the heck would you want to do that?

    John Stossel has shown on his 20/20 TV segment that cities make things WORSE when they run it. Privatize the city water system, and you get cleaner water cheaper. End the city's monopoly on cable TV providers, and you get competition.

    Get the phone company out of city regulation, and you get competition.

    The same is true over and over and over again. Some cities in foreign countries have been privatizing the roads (so you only pay for what you use, rather than distribute it to people who don't even use the roads), and have seen wide success in those ventures.

    I don't want the city controlling anything, especially my data. This idea is frightening to me, and I'd gladly vote with my feet if something like this happened.