Comments on: Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/ Daily drafts of a perpetual deadline chaser Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mikko http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/comment-page-1/#comment-163221 Mikko Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:13:38 +0000 http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/#comment-163221 Hi. The connection I'm using now to browse your site is actually a stolen Internet access. It is from my aunt's WRT54G router. She doesn't know that we're (we at home) using their connection at home for our laptop and desktop. They used encryption, a strong password and unbroadcasted SSID. The downside is, I was the one she asked to configure her router (at the 192.168.1.1 address with default username of admin and a blank password)! Aside from my aunt's Linksys router, we also have a stolen backup connection. Now, it's my other aunt's DLink router. Again, their networked followed security measures but I was the one she asked to configure it. :D Hi.

The connection I’m using now to browse your site is actually a stolen Internet access.

It is from my aunt’s WRT54G router. She doesn’t know that we’re (we at home) using their connection at home for our laptop and desktop. They used encryption, a strong password and unbroadcasted SSID. The downside is, I was the one she asked to configure her router (at the 192.168.1.1 address with default username of admin and a blank password)!

Aside from my aunt’s Linksys router, we also have a stolen backup connection. Now, it’s my other aunt’s DLink router. Again, their networked followed security measures but I was the one she asked to configure it.

:D

]]> By: Max Limpag http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/comment-page-1/#comment-160239 Max Limpag Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:46:55 +0000 http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/#comment-160239 Hi Sir, I seem to recall reading that piece of news too. I wonder how common Wi-Fi piggybacking is here in Cebu, though. Hi Sir,
I seem to recall reading that piece of news too. I wonder how common Wi-Fi piggybacking is here in Cebu, though.

]]> By: wilson ng http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/comment-page-1/#comment-160150 wilson ng Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:00:04 +0000 http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/#comment-160150 Hi Max, I don't know if you were able to read it, but some months back, I remember reading that somebody in UK was jailed for 'stealing' wifi from his neighbor. Hi Max,

I don’t know if you were able to read it, but some months back, I remember reading that somebody in UK was jailed for ’stealing’ wifi from his neighbor.

]]> By: Ipod Iphone and MAC » Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/comment-page-1/#comment-157778 Ipod Iphone and MAC » Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:56:32 +0000 http://max.limpag.com/2007/11/25/wi-fi-security-network-tip/#comment-157778 [...] Twitter / Chris24 wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerpt While setting up a Wi-Fi network for the PLDT myDSL connection at home earlier this week, I got a timely warning from a press release. Anti-virus company Sophos said many people now use someone else’s wireless Internet connection without their permission. Sophos said 54 percent of 560 respondents who took their online survey admitted to using other people’s Wi-Fi connection without their permission. The survey is not scientific and I don’t see how you can see a “widespreadâ€? trend from it. But [...]

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