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Turning Network Free-Riders' Lives Upside Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shake-it-like-an-etch-a-sketch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You discover that your neighbours are using your unsecured wireless network without your permission. Do you secure it? Or do you do something more fun? A few minutes with squid and iptables could greatly improve your neighbours' Web experience ..." Improve is a relative term, but this is certainly gentler than certain other approaches.

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  1. Re:It's not their fault... by Matey-O · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This is doubtful. Routers normally don't allow administrative access through the wireless interface.
    That's news to my Linksys, D-Link, and Netgear access points!
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  2. Re:It's not their fault... by buchan232 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This is doubtful. Routers normally don't allow administrative access through the wireless interface.
    Um yes they do ...
    Been there done that
    By default linksys wireless routers use "admin" with no password.
    I disabled one of my neighbours router for a few days just to see if they could figure out what the problem was...
    after 4-5 days I decided to let them off the hook and re-opened their router to the world.
    They never did get it secured...
  3. Re:It's not their fault... by rbochan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's preposterous. How would you set the thing up if you had no wired connection?

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