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Open residential wireless networks
« on: January 26, 2007, 06:46:33 AM »
So what sort of antics have you done with your neighbour's or general residential neighbourhoods' wireless networks? My usual habit is to see if I can log into their router and turn off their wireless and see how long that goes.

Anybody else?

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2007, 07:12:41 AM »
You're supposed to change the SSID to something derogatory, come on, every knows that.
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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2007, 08:21:17 AM »
hehe nice, i check the list of common default passwords and ususally login too, but then set the modem up for remote administration and get the IP.  With Comcast though, if your power goes out your IP changes too.  also if its a cisco router i try the 161 trick. ;p

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2007, 08:45:06 AM »
I have spoken about this on the bridge before, but a buddy of mine once connected to a Safeway Wi-Fi network while they were still unprotected a number of years ago. He was sending e-mails to his buddy using their satellite dishes that Safeway utilizes to communicate with their stores across the continent.

I don't believe he was able to browse or do anything beyond POP and some basic network tasks.

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2007, 12:13:14 PM »
I made a thread about this man!

anyway, I like to try to connect to the router, using the management console,

(192.168.1.1 = linksys)

and use the default name and password "admin"

to do things like change the SSID to "Cactus!"  or "Series of Tubes"

unless I have a real grudge against them, I won't go setting a password, or making their network inoperable,

once I set the SSID to "Get a password U will be HAXED!

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2007, 01:39:55 PM »
Once you're on their network, search for new printers.  Printing out pr0n for them is always fun.

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2007, 01:42:34 PM »
or printing out every page of phone losers dot org...

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2007, 01:54:36 PM »
or printing out every page of phone losers dot org...

But printing out the highest quality porn is much more expensive to them than printing out a website!  The goal is to cause complete financial devastation to the open network!

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2007, 02:11:15 PM »
there was a network downtown called "Fuck you faggot" and best off all, its not WEP either.
I wan't to go back and change it to something much more offensive to the person owning it. What should I put?
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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2007, 02:40:51 PM »
there was a network downtown called "Fuck you faggot" and best off all, its not WEP either.
I wan't to go back and change it to something much more offensive to the person owning it. What should I put?

"Fuck you motherfucker."? And maybe throw in some other PLA reference?



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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2007, 08:10:39 AM »
I leave my router open sometimes and packet sniff and see what they are doing and then AIM them and threaten them.. Also you could do this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2007, 08:27:54 AM »
I leave my FON router open, the "private SSID." By laptop wanted to have me enter the password EVERY TIME I wanted to connect. No one on my street is going to pull into my driveway so they can use / hax my WIRELESS tubes.there are 20+ other open networks on the same street.
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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2007, 06:55:38 PM »
Hey Raptor, speaking of the FONm router, have you had any problems with the connection freezing?

I'll be connected to the "private SSID" and after being connected for ~15-30 min. all traffic will stop. I'll still be connected to the router and I'll still have an IP, just that I have to release/renew to reset the connection before I can send/receive data again.

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2007, 09:43:00 PM »
After getting my own connection, I sort of stopped playing with neighbor's networks. I've hosted a LAN party on someone else's connection, but that wasn't too impressive. My favorite project was taking my laptop with me around the city and starting to map out all the unprotected networks. Is there anything illegal about that, does anyone know?

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Re: Open residential wireless networks
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2007, 10:02:29 PM »
Is there anything illegal about that?

Nope....