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Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots

Posted by samzenpus on from the going-down-under-cover dept.

OzPeter writes "As a part of National Consumer Fraud week, the Queensland Police are going war driving in order to identify insecure WiFi setups. From the press release: 'The War Driving Project involves police conducting proactive patrols of residential and commercial areas to identify unprotected connections. Police will follow this up with a letterbox drop in the targeted area with information on how to effectively secure your connection.' While some people may like having an open WiFi AP its interesting to see that the Police also feel that 'Having WEP encryption is like using a closed screen door as your sole means of security at home. The WPA or WPA2 security encryption is certainly what we would recommend as it offers a high degree of protection.'"

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  1. I wonder what they will say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    NSW police may be interested in my wifi ssid "Police_Surveillance_Van_71A"

    1. Re:I wonder what they will say by lexsird · · Score: 4, Funny

      I name mine "Warning: Virus Detected!"

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  2. I broadcast about 120 open AP's by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    All of them named Linksys, Dlink, Wireless, etc... and all to a single router that is connected to nothing at all.

    It significantly reduces the volume of idiot neighbors that do not configure their new wireless as many times they will connect to me instead.

    Works great, when I shut it off, I see no more default router names.

    It also screws with the wardrivers, I look at some of the maps every few months and see my location with a giant pile of AP names around my building.

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  3. Re:How times have changed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    LOL, you failed hard.

  4. Re:It's Basic Infrastructure by cmdr_tofu · · Score: 3, Funny

    "is your password a complicated password?"
    "no its simple"
    "what is it"
    "acomplicatedpassword"
    "i thought you it was simple" ...

  5. Re:It's Basic Infrastructure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    My neighbor did this for about 2 weeks till they discovered that i use a lot more bandwidth then them. It took 3 months before it came up in conversation where he talked about some punk kid maxing out his internet pipe. I just smiled and agreed that those punk kids need to cut it out. :P Sure that can be easily fixed by limiting the guest network bandwidth but not every user or router allows/knows how to do this.

    it was nice though to use two separate networks for torrents.