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- dirka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+220the only prob is that people that know how to set up that stuff aren't having people jack their connection in the first place. go figure
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+102Its all fun and games until someone gets goatse'd
- FKnight, on 10/12/2007, -9/+109Oldie but goodie. Dugg.
- magical, on 10/12/2007, -5/+87that still doesn't give people the right to steal your car
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55"I think he should set it up to be a wireless hotspot like one at a Starbucks where users have to have an account and pay some sort of monthly fee. I would not be hard to set up and you could make some money out of it."
That would probably violate the T&C of the ISP. In fact it almost certainly would. - emehrkay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50I lost my connection one day so I just used a neighbor's. The whole thing was open even thee control panel 198.168.x.1. So i renamed it to "You should set a password." Guess what the name of the network is today? "You should set a password"
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51@tgui
"I sell oragami cranes with complimentary internet service."
How much can they lift? - VermiciousKnid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47I discovered someone stealing my sisters wifi and found they had foolishly shared their printer on the network. so I printed a message with a giant letter on each page saying "G-E-T-Y-O-U-R-O-W-N-N-E-T-A-C-C-E-S-S-A-S-S-H-O-L-E"
- runbmd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43A combined total of 8000 diggs for this story. Remind me to post it again in 6 months!!
http://digg.com/tech_news/Turning_Network_Free_Riders_Lives_Upside_Down - timetogo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42@Unloud
Listen, "the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." - Surefoot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40That's what the Trunk Monkey is for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3L9BQQ4Gs - chaddhall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35You forgot the part about leaving the keys in the ignition with the headlights on and the motor running.
- honds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Sorry for comment abuse. I wanted this to be at the top because I think it adds to the article.
Set it up to have google.com forward to the Google Adsense Publisher account using your Adsense publisher ID. Then they don't even realize the Internet they are stealing is being messed with but if they use Google to search you get all the money from Adsense.
I personally prefer the user-name and password page where you enter a user name and password then it adds your MAC to the "trusted network"... that way it takes all of 2 seconds to get your new Laptop on the network. - rense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32And now those neighbors are setting up a server and a little script to flip all those images back again.
- rekinom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33chaddhall:
Virgin Records v. Marson
Capitol Records v. Foster
via techdirt, via google
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060727/1131227.shtml - alanflores, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30after i discovered that a couple of my neighbors are using my bandwidth, i named my SSID as LAPD-WIFI to scare them off. The number of culprits tripled and i discovered that after that there has been attempts to break in my database.
- UCFartstudntJON, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35Steal something that is inside my house? I should press charges for trespassing of possibly harmful radiation.
- barryiggins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25so what can I do to protect myself from these anal criminals who drink from my hose?
- chithon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29Am I the only person that gives his WiFi away for free?
My SSID even says "Free Public Access".
Free the Code people. - fucayama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25anal crime???!!
- dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Thanks counselor!
- kyrre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I used to share my internet connection. I even had antennas on two apartment buildings to connect them with WDS. It was quite funny to see people siting outside their houses in the middle of the night surfing away on my network. But some of my nice neighbors used it to hog ALL my bandwidth with bit torrent and what not. Please get your own damn internet to leech your porn and warez! I used to filter their access with iptables but a few months ago I got fed up with that an encrypted the network.
It was 3 happy years of sharing, and a 6 months of slow internet access pain.
I might reconsider at some point. - tcquad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22The fastest way of doing something is not necessarily the most fulfilling.
- mousky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Kyrre: Welcome to the wonderful world of the Tragedy of the Commons.When people are not forced to suffer an economic consequence when using a finite resource, they tend to maximize their use of that resource.
- Punisher2K, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Doesn't matter how you slice it, you're still providing wireless access. Providing any, free or no, violates most T&C.
- wyrdness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17You should have changed it to something like 'Free Public Wi-Fi'.
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15It's been used in the RIAA cases, actually, and worked. I keep my wifi open. But mostly because I want it to be as easy as possible for my Mom to use it.
The thing that bugs me about keeping an open wifi isn't the fact that random people pull their car over on the side of the road and leech it. That's okay. It's when they might use it for kiddy porn that ***** pisses me off so much. - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"I left my car running in the driveway and when i came back there was blood all over the front end of the car, but I don't know who could have done it."
That is called reasonable doubt. Yes it would fly. - kualla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Except that under the ToS of your ISP, you are responsible for the traffic that goes through your modem."
ToS IS NOT law.
Failing to follow a companies ToS can result in loss of service with that company, not necessarily a guilty charge in court. - jayhawk88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13OK, so you have the technical acumen to setup a squid proxy and redirect traffic based on MAC address filters, but you don't spend 3 minutes to secure your wireless in the first place? Fun is fun I guess, but it just all seems rather silly.
- duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Same here. I found a linksys WRT configured with original firmware and the default password.
I left his configuration as is but changed the password. If he really wants to change the password on his router he only needs to press a reset button on the back of the router (that is in the instruction book). Last thing I would want is for him to have his connection stolen, the firmware replaced and that reset button disabled, then he would be in trouble. - tgui, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13@GiggleStick
Depends if you get the african or european model. Depends on how unladened they are. I also sell cross regional versions. ;-) - nemrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I once changed my wife's home page and drove her crazy. She had it set for Google.com and I changed it to - http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ which is a Google mirror, but has Google flipped horizontally. I then used the RIP (Remove It Permanently) Firefox extension to hid any advertisements on the page. It drove her crazy for a few hours until I fixed it - which made her kind off impressed at how fast I fixed it. That was until she learned what I did.
She got me back by screen capturing an open browser page. Saving it to Photoshop. Then making it my desktop wallpaper. She hid my icons and the taskbar. Now that drove me crazy for an hour! I thought it was hit by a virus.
Lesson learned - don't mess with your wife! But neighbors are another story. - evolseven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10hmm.. go get yourself a wrt54g or something that supports dd-wrt and throw the wireless on a vlan.. that way it isolates it from the rest of your network.. it can reach the internet but not your windows boxes.
- bdognet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Love it! Gotta try it
- Quag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11If your neighbors have gotten by this long without using your net access, chances are they have their own and won't suddenly feel the urge to do so now.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9i remember i ran my own linux router once and switched hotmail.com to hotmale.com for when my brother went to go check his email =P
- crammaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9^^^ SPAMMER ^^^
(check their profile)
How does one report this user?? - M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yes, I run it as a caching server for my house on my WinXP box.
It compiles/runs on Cygwin, or alternatively you can download the binaries here: http://www.acmeconsulting.it/SquidNT.html
Why this comment is dugg down I don't know :s - InvertedDonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9woah, at first glance of the upisde down picture, i thought they redirected to a russian version of ebay. that was really confusing.
- xenixninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well, they are connecting to your network router, so theoretically they can't complain about that you are sniffing their passwords, as you are no public service.
Wouldn't that be like suing the forest for breaking your legs if a tree fell over you when you were hiking? - xenixninja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@ Punisher2k
So, if someone stole your car, used it in a bank robbery where they killed a few people and then sped away and run over and killed some as they where trying to escape, should you be responsible for that? Because, it is your car and your fault you didn't secure it better, right?
It's like suing the ISP for letting people access kiddie porn. - jues, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I would share my Wireless network, but I have qutie a few windows boxes on the other side of my router with SMB shares (media, etc, etc) - I would be worried about people have access to those as well. (Yes, I know I can password protect them, but it's still Windows at the end of the day...)
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"why not ... negatize all the images. then, they could use all the net they want, as long as they're not browsing porn"
Unless they're running OS X, in which case all they'd have to do to fix it is press command + option + control + 8 (It inverts the screen.)
I love Universal Access. I'm not disabled but I use almost every feature it offers. - xenixninja, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Or don't be such a scrooge about your Wi-Fi. Get a FON router. Give and you will get.
It's kind of funny. People tell themselves it is okay to share movies and music over the internet, but sharing their Wi-Fi? Oh no, not sharing something they are paying for. Long live double-moral. - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Except that under the ToS of your ISP, you are responsible for the traffic that goes through your modem.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5An experiment in an alternative way of spreading open standards and open source? :-)
Slow down or break pages requested by IE
Add "upgrade to Firefox or Opera" messages.
Do it very, very gently, so people don't notice, and so you're 'punishment' is on the same level as the stealing of bandwidth.
When you made them switch away from IE, see if you can do the same for Outlook Expres, MS Office, MSN, hotmail, etc.
openupyourneighbors.org ?
Of course i'm only joking. - drac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5ghostbusters
- hypercube33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm totally up for Wifi being free for all to use, as long as A. its not used to violate laws and B. its not used to break into my files etc. Looking up a map on google from your car doesnt bug me, but hacking into my server does (doesnt just apply to wifi.)
- LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I live in a large apartment building, and surprisingly most everyone has it secured except one, my roommate and I logged into their router using all the default info, and changed the SSID to "DownloadFreeKiddiePornHere" then we forgot about it. 6 months later a friend of mine came over so I could help them get their new laptop up and going, I went to connect to our network, and guess who showed up on the available network list, yes, you guessed it "DownloadFreeKiddiePornHere"
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