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- paulmike3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+114maybe you'll get lucky and find their PC on the curb the next day!!
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+114This should be a standard feature on wireless routers.
- AugustZephyr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+105Blury-net = Awesome. It would be awesome to have your neighor sit there wondering why the "internet" is out of focus all the time. The kittens and image flipping just make the prank too obvious
- kentmartin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+94I disagree. I am technically competent and deliberately leave my wifi unsecured with an SSID containing the words 'Public Welcome'.
It is no skin off my nose if people use my connection, if I make it as clear as I can that I mean it to be this way then people don't tend to abuse it. Frankly, I appreciate it when I travel and people do something similar.
People have the opportunity to provide their communities a useful service at a cost and inconvenience that is almost nil, why not take the opportunity to do something for others when you get the chance? - pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+90I would rather do this than secure my network.
- Wolf451man, on 10/12/2007, -9/+84Dugg because it is funny.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+92It's YOU'RE, YOU'RE GODDAMNIT. WHAT THE *****? YOU'RE - HOW HARD IT IS PEOPLE?
- rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72Or they will show up in a forum asking why their "internet" is upside down. And the people who know about this article will laugh at them.
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -6/+71More gooder.
- mrchucklepants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52Yes, but where's the fun in that.
- Kernlicious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50How expensive can the internet be...I mean it is made up of tubes.
- xfTwitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42I did something similar last year.
Had my router turn port 80 off and on every 3 minutes. He disconnected a few days later.
I actually saw him standing in his living room yelling at his computer. - DrDabbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42"In the US it is actually a violation of federal law to share Internet bandwidth."
No. It is not. It very well may be a violation of your TOS. To be frank, I don't like Comcast so I share my WiFi with some nice high gain antennas and an open AP. Anybody in my apartment's parking lot, my entire floor, and two-thirds of the floors above and below me can use my AP without modification to their NICs.
I'm paying Comcast for a service, and they're providing it to me on a "best effort" basis. There's no promise I'll ever see the full 8Mbit/sec. If you use the argument that their service can't handle all that extra traffic, I will again point you to the "best effort" clause. If my node only has 1Gbit/sec available and I max out at 8Mbit/sec, I will either get my 8Mbit/sec, or whatever is left over from everyone else on my node browsing.
In the end, I guess it comes down to the fact that my city doesn't forbid me from giving water out for free. I pay them for the water. For all they care, I am filling up jugs and sending them to Africa. As long as they get paid, my water keeps flowing. The interesting difference between the two is what happens when either company "runs out" of their resource. If the water company pumps the nearby lake dry, then there are severs consequences to that. If comcast "clogs their tubes" then the worst that happens is the "internet" I sent yesterday doesn't get there till tomorrow. - invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41indeed. "Suddenly everything is kittens! It's kitten net."
i feel like broadcasting my SSID and taking off my WPA so i can do all three of these to any unsuspecting neighbors!! - osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38The upside down pictures is a great touch.
- inotocracy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40FTA: "I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.". Yeah, he could have, but this is funner.
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40If your savvy enough to know that then you wouldn't use WEP, you would use WPA.
- xdjyoshx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Speaking of drunk felip...
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -10/+45Redirect to goatse!!
- msturgill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Wha?
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Yeah, but you might accidentally make the Chinese guy stealing your connection start celebrating.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32that's a good point... though the upside-down images can be interpreted as a browser glitch or virus...
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31These are the storys that made digg good still.
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Uh, no, you didn't do this to your neighbor. You simply broke into their network (yeah, no security, but arguably they still have a right to privacy) and stole their shows/movies. That's, like, the complete *opposite* of this story.
- infinium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27It's the pipes. They are definitely way too clogged. Things are getting all blurry, and turning upside down. But, wait! It should only turn upside down if it was a dump truck and we know it is not one of those things?!
Senator, please help me. I am confused. - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Generally, if people are savvy enough to do this, they've already secured their network... Now if they, say, had bypassed the security you had set up, this would be a hilarious bit of revenge.
- blakef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Tell them their processor is too slow to render the images. Take a brief pause afterwards to enjoy the moment.
- megabit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Great prank! :)
would be great also translate everything to chinese using balbelfish or google translator... - manitcor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25already there, http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php
feel free to deploy your own scripts into your Linksys router and enjoy the fun. - analogAI, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Although the prank is pretty funny, after a while it'll get old. Why make it a hostile neighborhood air space? I'd rather have it throttled so it prioritizes my computer's bandwidth and share the remaining with neighbors.
There's an SSID in my neighborhood called "*****". Every time I see neighbors I wonder if they are the antisocial *****. If bandwidth already paid for, why let it go to waste? Love your neighbors as yourself. - evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33That's illegal now, in the US.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Another advantage of having an unsecured network is being able to blame "bandwidth thieves" for anything.. untoward.. that might have gone across that router.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24That would be a good one. Especially if it picked a random language for each page.
- dohidied, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Goatse'ing is illegal? I want to cry.
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24I'm not trying to spam, but I want to stock up on these t-shirts so when I meet people like that in real life, I can give them one.
http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/yourretarded/male - sarne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22LMAO, nice idea. Someone should write it into the software for a Linksys WRT54GS V4 router. Any takers?
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24"Be nice to have his browser pop up a "Viris Detected" Pop up. "
You have much to learn about the relationship between total humor value and subtilty. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Who cares? If you are paying for a connection and bandwidth, what does it matter if it is shared? They aren't going to start sueing people for sharing that now are they, next you'll be carted off for giving change to the poor.
- psyon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Right! And its their fault if you monitor all their calls on their cordless phone, because they are broadcasting it into YOUR house! Right on brother!
- ohnnyj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18May end up costing them money as well as they replace their video card and then their monitor.
- Hypersapien, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20evilTak,
Yeah, but the only people who would ever see it are people who are using your network illegally, so I'm pretty sure you would be in the clear. - coolbru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Reek Havoc = Create confusion by smelling really bad
- Crypty, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Goatse popups a possibility?
- jollyllama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Seriously, my ISP charges me out the nose by way of their government sponsered near monopoly, I don't give a damn about them.
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@5thfreedom:
If you have a computer that's wired but still has a wireless card, you can broadcast a secondary WEP-enabled wifi network and restrict it to only allow the MAC of your DS. - TimberManiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14heh, I'm afraid that sentence is beyond repair :P
- DrDabbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I know not everyone is a pro at IPTABLES, so let me break down what is going on here with the rules...
This line forwards ALL packets to kittens. All. Bit torrent, IRC, DC++, whatever.
/sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -p tcp -j DNAT --to-destination 64.111.96.38
This line forwards ONLY port 80 (almost always HTTP) to the squid server that mangles the page.
/sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1
Note: If they browse to a server that runs on a port OTHER than 80 (say, an SSL protected one, or one running on 8080, etc.) this will not work. They will just get kittens. - ochito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Wreak havoc = create confusion and craziness
reek= smell really bad - eridius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You're missing the entire point. He's not trying to protect his precious bandwidth, he's just having some fun with the neighbors who are using his network without asking.
- tehgooch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"@dizzybastard
This will also work for those who HAVE secured their wireless connection and have it hacked. I have had my wireless connection with WEP enabled hacked before. After that, I upgraded the older router and enabled WPA only to have it hacked again. I again upgraded the firmware to enable WPA2, but it is only a matter of time before it is hacked again. This is a sweet bit of revenge. I had previously thought of something like this, but never took the time to actually think it out."
Perhaps you shouldn't set your WPA password to "password" or a word in the dictionary. Good random passwords (you only have to use them when you put a new computer on the network, so just stick them in a text file and you don't have to remember them): https://www.grc.com/passwords
I set my password to one of those and if someone hacks my connection I'm going to ask to borrow their supercomputer. -
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