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...
You know... the one line in the posted article... The muggers held 'a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him...
VS:
The ACTUAL line in the article... His assailants held what "felt" like a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him...
Make things awfully different...
Typical Slashdot (or insert just about any other news agencey name here) Sensationalism, who knows what the guy actually had to the back of his head... could have been a finger for all he really knows. Not to minimize his ordeal but... I think the omition of that one word in the SD story was a nice way to get things noticed.
Well after reading some of the other stories here... had to throw mine into the ring...
So I work for a small daily paper, we have an assortment of solaris based servers where everything is stored. So one Sunday evening one of my co-workers decided that our time server was slightly out (also a solaris based server) so he decided to set the time manualy...
date 123108232050
Now, being a daily paper we tend to begin laying out pages in advance, we have clients ads and artwork in various places throughout our system. Most of those places are automaticly "cleaned up" based on their ages.
So all the servers update their new time and fire off the clean up jobs...
OH look we no longer need to keep this its 45 years old... POOF tomorrows paper... gone... all those client ads etc... gone
And just to add insult to injury... our backup server... ya not much good as it had expired all of its data when its time got updated... 3 days of HELL getting what we could back from a 30 tape library.
I would much rather have those taxes/levys in place if it means when i need some service its paid for (or at least subsidized).
Ya to the americans and a lot of other cultures it looks like we pay so much more for a lot of things but there are other things we pay FAR less for.
When I pay that Levy/tax I don't see it, all I see is the price of the item or service I am paying for. I will shop around but in the end the amount of that levy/tax is built in and no matter where you go its there. You just live with it and accept it.
I for one welcome the levy/tax (as long as it doesn't get too out of hand) becasue in the long run that extra couple of bucks tacked onto my spindle of CDs just might keep the RIAA (or whoever) off my back.
Hey, THANK YOU.
This works great, one little problem, your link goes to an old version. Here http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/ is the developers page for the latest version. The version you link to has issues but once I updated it works perfectly.
Nope I'm sorry but the original poster is right. The users I deal with day in and day out want NOTHING to do with security. We have tried to explain both nicely and in the "Just do this and shut up" way.
No matter how we try and tell them they do not care.
"Thats not my job"
I have dealt with a very wide range of users and for the most part it has nothing to do with the sysadmins presentation more the users lack of knowledge.
I have to say... its a good thing for you the government has a "monopoly" on insurance rates. Here in Alberta Insurance is privatized and it is INSANE what they can get away with.
They can pretty much charge you whatever they feel like and there is nothing you can do. The prices are so radically different from one company to the next every year you have to spend a month shopping around to get the best rates.
You make it sound like government regulated insurance is a bad thing, I say try and live on the other side of the mountains.
Its already Showing in Windows update. I just finished installing and updating a new machine half an hour ago. Then just went back to discover one more update!!!!
Ever notice it takes longer to update than it does to actually install?
Slashdot Mirror
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...
You know ... the one line in the posted article ... ... ... ... could have been a finger for all he really knows. Not to minimize his ordeal but ... I think the omition of that one word in the SD story was a nice way to get things noticed.
The muggers held 'a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him...
VS:
The ACTUAL line in the article
His assailants held what "felt" like a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him...
Make things awfully different
Typical Slashdot (or insert just about any other news agencey name here) Sensationalism, who knows what the guy actually had to the back of his head
Well after reading some of the other stories here ... had to throw mine into the ring ...
...
... POOF tomorrows paper ... gone... ... gone
... ya not much good as it had expired all of its data when its time got updated ...
So I work for a small daily paper, we have an assortment of solaris based servers where everything is stored.
So one Sunday evening one of my co-workers decided that our time server was slightly out (also a solaris based server) so he decided to set the time manualy...
date 123108232050
Now, being a daily paper we tend to begin laying out pages in advance, we have clients ads and artwork in
various places throughout our system. Most of those places are automaticly "cleaned up" based on their ages.
So all the servers update their new time and fire off the clean up jobs
OH look we no longer need to keep this its 45 years old
all those client ads etc
And just to add insult to injury... our backup server
3 days of HELL getting what we could back from a 30 tape library.
Its Slashdotted
... "
...
It doesn't seem to work in OSX
I got "outfoxed_mddb_server is not compiled for your OS please start it now
when firefox restarted after installing the plugin.
Its been trying to create the database for 10 min now
I am totally with you Fr05t
I would much rather have those taxes/levys in place if it means when i need some service its paid for (or at least subsidized).
Ya to the americans and a lot of other cultures it looks like we pay so much more for a lot of things but there are other things we pay FAR less for.
When I pay that Levy/tax I don't see it, all I see is the price of the item or service I am paying for. I will shop around but in the end the amount of that levy/tax is built in and no matter where you go its there. You just live with it and accept it.
I for one welcome the levy/tax (as long as it doesn't get too out of hand) becasue in the long run that extra couple of bucks tacked onto my spindle of CDs just might keep the RIAA (or whoever) off my back.
I'm getting 330-390 kB/s On the I386 DVD
Whats everyone else getting?
You know ... I thought this very same thing. Then one day I clicked my spam folder and there was a whole pile of them in there.
:-)
Have a look, you may not be as anonymous as you think
Hey, THANK YOU. This works great, one little problem, your link goes to an old version. Here http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/ is the developers page for the latest version. The version you link to has issues but once I updated it works perfectly.
Nope I'm sorry but the original poster is right. The users I deal with day in and day out want NOTHING to do with security.
We have tried to explain both nicely and in the "Just do this and shut up" way.
No matter how we try and tell them they do not care.
"Thats not my job"
I have dealt with a very wide range of users and for the most part it has nothing to do with the sysadmins presentation more the users lack of knowledge.
I have to say... its a good thing for you the government has a "monopoly" on insurance rates. Here in Alberta Insurance is privatized and it is INSANE what they can get away with.
They can pretty much charge you whatever they feel like and there is nothing you can do. The prices are so radically different from one company to the next every year you have to spend a month shopping around to get the best rates.
You make it sound like government regulated insurance is a bad thing, I say try and live on the other side of the mountains.
THANK YOU!!! This works for anyone else who would like to stop their eyes from burning :-)
Its already Showing in Windows update. I just finished installing and updating a new machine half an hour ago. Then just went back to discover one more update!!!! Ever notice it takes longer to update than it does to actually install?