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So neighbors steal your wi-fi, kill the link or... have fun!

ex-parrot.com — So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or...? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)

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  • darkvad0r, on 04/02/2008, -17/+366oh come on ! Do we really need this story submitted once every 2 months ?
  • columbusgeek, on 04/02/2008, -0/+156i'm going to steal my neighbors Wife and turn her upside down.
  • bossm4n, on 04/02/2008, -3/+148Nice avatar Zaibatsu. I mean Mr. Babym...Mr. Baby Zaib...I give up.
  • EllieElliott, on 04/02/2008, -4/+101now you've got me playing kittenwar
  • snapshot54323, on 04/02/2008, -1/+50posted and popular
    links to this story in the future
    http://digg.com/security/So_neighbors_steal_your_w ...
    http://digg.com/security/So_neighbors_steal_your_w ...
  • BrettFromTibet, on 04/02/2008, -5/+47C'mon now.... I've seen this one before.... uh.. Mr. Zaibatusman... ;)
  • hello2usir, on 04/02/2008, -1/+41Just set it up so all http requests return the '2 girls 1 cup' movie within a hijacked unclosable browser window.
  • Falldog, on 04/02/2008, -0/+37Ancient. Someone figure out how to replace web ads with my own already.
  • BigManOnCampus, on 04/02/2008, -3/+37I only steal my neighbor's wifi to steal movies with bittorrent, so this wouldn't work on me.
  • WhoDoneIt, on 04/02/2008, -2/+35Wait.. so if I'm stupid enough to not encrypt my wireless I'm supposed to figure out how to follow those instructions?
  • Matt2k, on 04/02/2008, -0/+31I share my wifi, but I can't see that NOT sharing it would make me a jerk. Buy your own godddamn internet access, or pay me a cut.
  • bobbothegrayson, on 04/02/2008, -1/+29So can anyone give more detailed instructions so n00bs can do this?
  • DeathJux, on 04/02/2008, -0/+25I think this comment wins the thread.
  • BLyn, on 04/02/2008, -5/+232 months? Try yesterday. This is ridiculous.
  • mphree, on 04/02/2008, -0/+18Okay, now I'm going to call this all a bunch of *****.

    http://digg.com/security/So_neighbors_steal_your_w ...

    http://digg.com/security/So_neighbors_steal_your_w ...

    Same title, description, site, and Zaibatsu submitted them both. I'm thinking something needs to be done about this.... Zaibatsu: You lose. Google and I win.
  • adamchristopher, on 04/02/2008, -9/+25ok, so how does, say, an idiot do that? . . . cause a friend of mine needs a hand.
  • yunus, on 04/02/2008, -1/+15According to a majority of people on this site using an open wi-fi connection is not stealing. Buried for Inaccuracy, and being on Digg many times before.
  • XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, on 04/02/2008, -1/+15diggers pretend they know how to do it to circle jerk in comments

    so no one knows how to do actually do it
  • Typhoon2009, on 04/02/2008, -0/+13This tactic came installed with 802.11b
  • mrgeekguy, on 04/02/2008, -0/+13Ahhh I can see that going horribly wrong......"Ummm my little daughter accidentally connected to your wifi. Here's the bill for her theripist."
  • jocnnor, on 04/02/2008, -0/+12The same guy submitted it each time too. He really likes this story :P
  • ff2k, on 04/02/2008, -0/+12Oh.... Ha, ha ha! I almost missed the april fools hilarity in this post! Got ya! Should be more attentive next time!
  • RSS14, on 04/02/2008, -1/+13Don't be a jerk and share your car, house, and other things which you paid your hard earned money on.
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  • ileftfark, on 04/02/2008, -1/+13That would explain your lack of knowledge of how computers work.

    /obvious troll is obvious, etc
  • Timmyftw, on 04/02/2008, -0/+11My neighbours are stupid and use it to look on myspace and facebook.

    This will be refreshing, usually i just fill their shared folder with horse porn and then encrypt.
  • scabbers, on 04/02/2008, -1/+12Oh no!!!!! My torrents will come out upside down :(
  • kb29, on 04/02/2008, -0/+10Yeah, and have some asshat download torrents on my wireless. No thanks.
  • ThugThrasher, on 04/02/2008, -2/+12we're against people that do it.
    we're also against the government legislating everything, so there shouldn't be laws against it.

    I mean, I personally hate people who are complete douchebags to me when I'm at work, but I don't think there should be LAWS against it
  • daGUY, on 04/02/2008, -0/+10I'm not normally one to care about duplicate articles, but this has seriously been on the front page like 10 times...lol. You can tell how old it is because the screenshot of Apple.com is from before the Intel Macs came out (beginning of 2006).
  • MikeyMoose, on 01/30/2009, -3/+12Then you should pay attention...
  • iofthestorm, on 04/02/2008, -0/+9Maybe because Randal Munroe put a post on his blog with that whole series with a link to his site?
  • BlackCow, on 04/02/2008, -0/+9Log into your router, it should tell you what computers are on its network.
  • brundlefly76, on 04/02/2008, -1/+9One day on digg everyone is complaining about laws preventing surfing on open wifi networks.
    the next day we want to know how to screw with people who do it.
    lets make up our minds what side were on.
  • 0100, on 04/02/2008, -6/+14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _________
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  • warsql, on 04/02/2008, -1/+9This is like the 10th time ive seen this comment on this page.
  • mphree, on 04/02/2008, -3/+11It's like half of the stories Zaibatsu and MyBabyMan submit are duplicates, and even duplicates of their own stories. Effing tools.
  • splinteredmind, on 04/02/2008, -1/+8clever girl ...
  • Atomic1fire, on 04/02/2008, -1/+8I think a funnyer joke would be making a page pop up every once and awhile saying
    your free trial is almost up..would you like to stop mooching and pay the owner ten bucks
  • hartley, on 04/02/2008, -1/+8Agreed, I was really hoping for something besides turning the browser upside down.
    Personally, I just like having fun with the dns. Just change google, yahoo, and msn to whatever offensive/loud/obnoxious site you want.
  • Stravaganza, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7I have an XP machine with 2 network cards which are bridged (? don't know the English word for it?)
    One goes to my Wireless AP, while the other goes to my router where the Internet pours in.
    This setup allows me to watch HTTP traffic in real-time (what sites my leeches are using) and also monitor live MSN conversations.
    I've only set it up for HTTP, because the tool i use gives a buck load of info if the filter isn't activated.
    Last, I've got a packet analyzer that i use for more in-depth analyze of the traffic.
    This leaves me with my own private mini-echelon in my apartment, where i can follow my leechers web-activities closely.
    Really easy to do, if you got a spare network interface lying around.
  • Acglaphotis, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7I don't think windows has a /etc/dhcp.conf file so i think your gonna have to use Linux ; ).
  • nmanguy, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7This is like the 10th time ive seen this on digg.
  • pseudologue, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7He probably means different neighbors. One doesn't get only one set of stupid neighbors.
  • Burn, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6And you haven't encrypted because...
  • VermiciousKnid, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6I once discovered someone stealing my sisters wifi and noticed that they were sharing their printer, so I printed 1 GIANT letter per page: G-E-T-Y-O-U-R-O-W-N-F-U-C-K-I-N-G-I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T-C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N-!-!-!
  • Rikkochet, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6That's too overt. It needs to be more subtle and intermittently so so they don't just give up right away. You need to chip away at their understanding of how technology works, not just yell at them to get off your lawn.
  • wallryan, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5so you steal mr babyman's avatar....
  • InfinitySnatch, on 04/02/2008, -2/+7If you're too stupid to know how to put a password on your wi-fi, then I doubt you'll be able to pull off anything like this.

    Oh, look like someone got to it before me. My point still stands.
  • loeki, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Kill the link or... secure the connection?
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